Who will provide the NX GPU?

[JEMC]

JRPGfan said:

JEMC said:

Direct3D or DX is a propietary API from MSoft, so neither Sony nor Nintendo will use it in their development tools. That leaves us with OpenGL/Vulkan.

Also, those theories with 2xTegras have, in my eyes, one big flaw: they are assuming a 100% scaling. That's something that won't happen.

Yep Nvidia's SLI is more like 80-85%. Its less effective than Crossfire is.

I said the same in my post above (1 page back). It would be a bad move by Nintendo, it would mean they re still behinde the Xbox One in performance, but suddenly will have to try and sell a 400$ handheld hybrid.

Price was one of the things that killed the Wii U. They spendt like 80$ on the gamepad, and couldnt keep the console price down enough for it to be competitive in terms of price/performance, it hurt their precived value.

I agree that price will be a key point in the sucess or failure of NX.

If it's an hybrid device, it doesn't matter what Nintendo does because most people will see it as a handheld that connects to a TV, and people aren't willing to pay 250 $/€ or more for such devices.

I'd say that Nintendo's best bet would be to sell the handheld and the "boost dock" separetedly... but that kind of goes against the "hybrid" selling point.