Who will provide the NX GPU?

[JEMC]

TheLastStarFighter said:

JEMC said:

PCs have it, but they need special drivers and they don't scale perfectly. And we're talking about a secondary GPU, because if that powered dock has another Tegra to work in tandem, that's another CPU thrown in the mix...

Also, in your example, if they make two SKUs with the NX and then dock+controller, why can't they make the dock+controller a console by itself? Why does it need the NX? It's a wasted oportunity.

They could and maybe they will.  But the idea here is that the home station isn't all that powerful alone.  It's when combined with the porable that it has significant power.  The portable alone is powerful because it's rendering on a small screen.  On a big screen it might be weak.  But you double the power for home so it can offer the same experience with many more pixels.  One piece of software, two settings, portable and home (docked).

My problem isn't with the idea by itself, but the implementation.

Something like this is not as easy to do as it seems.