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TheLastStarFighter on 19 August 2016
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JEMC said:
TheLastStarFighter said:

Conclusions, no, of course not.  But there is lots of fodder for solid speculation.  If I were to wager, I'd go with NX using the Tegra X2, and it's power will come in around 90% of an XBox One, which was an earlier rumor.  I'd say a solid chance of a docking station suplimental GPU, perhaps doublling performance.  We know by the patents a suplimental processing unit has been under consideration, the question is whether it will become a reality.

I was talking about your 1+1+3+3 TFlops distribution of Tegras and GPUs, mainly because the GP106 that powers the GTX 1060 (and that doesn't fit with what Nvidia showed in the slade I posted earlier) is rated at 3.8 TFlops, and I don't know if the GP107 will be able to give those 3 Tflops.

And I'm not one of those that believe the theory of the dock having extra hardware. First, because it makes no sense to have that hardware there and not being able to use it without the NX hybrid device, it would be better to launch the dock as a home console and talk about being able to connect both devices to have more performance and experience an even greater experience. And second, because there has been only two consoles with two sets of processors, the Neo Geo (that was too expensive and only had 1st party games) and the Sega Saturn... and devs hated to develop for that console.

Yeah, of course, I'm just speculating on the 1+1+3+3 thingy.

I'm not sure if they will do the suplimental device thing, but it does make a tonne of sense if they can do it right.  It would be mostly new for consoles, but PC's use multipe GPUs all the time, and Alienware offers a supplimental GPU for their laptops now.

So, if done right, Nintendo could offer a portable system for the bulk of their customers, the "3DS audience".  They could offer a second SKU that includes the portable and the SCU docking station for home gaming.  Let's just throw out price points of $299 and $399 to start.  The "home" SKU could include the power-boosting docking station and pro-style controller.  This console setup could be appealing to those that want the home Nintendo experience, or the "Wii U" audience.

If you have both the NX and its dock with say an 800 GFLOP GPU unit, that unit alone would be screaching performance for a portable.  Combined 2X, the home unit would be acceptable levels for current consoles.

The goal here from a company perspective, would be that you sell a tonne of the portable NX and get real good 3rd party support and have extensive 1st party support focused on the single system.  SInce a kid can then dock the system to their TV and up performance and play their favorite titles, why bother buying another home console?  This appealing setup could then lead to more third party support, which leads to more sales, which leads to the system being more in demand, and it's a continous positive cycle.