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Soundwave on 24 August 2016
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TheLastStarFighter said:
Soundwave said:

It would mean you have only one power supply (which comes with the base unit). A desktop Nvidia GPU like you described would require a monstrous power supply unit, now either Nintendo would have to ship that with the base NX unit, which would be stupid because it would be gross overkill for people who will never buy the SCD and it would be the size of the system itself (lol) or it would have to come with its own power supply unit. 

By the way that wouldn't be the first time that has happened to Nintendo, the Disk Drive add-on for the Famicom needed its own power supply. 

If the SCD is just a second Tegra X2 with many a few modifiers, Nintendo could just ship the base NX with one 50 watt power supply, which is reasonable, this is about the same thing the Wii U comes with. Also I just really, really, reeeeally doubt Nintendo is going to spend a lot of money on a custom design Nvidia desktop GPU, Nvidia is unlikely to give Nintendo such a sweet deal on their "real" GPUs. 

Of course the SCD would come with it's own power supply.  Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a "docking station" would it?  More likely, the Tablet would lack a power supply.  N3DS didn't have one.  If you bought NX Tablet + SCD you would just have the docking station plug and if you wanted you could buy a "travel AC adapter" for extra cash.  If you bought the solo tablet, it would come with an AC adapter.

A GPU-only SCD makes more sense than a whole APU.  The Tegra is more powerful than current consoles on the CPU side - it's the GPU and bandwidth for graphics that is lacking.  An older model nVida chip could be customised cheaply to provide NX Home with the power it needs to be respectable.

Well, except the patent says the SCD does not come with its power supply and needs to use the main unit's power supply. 

They could cut the CPU cores off the SCD Tegra X2 and put eDRAM there (for 1080P display). That probably makes some sense if they don't need any extra CPU power. 

I think we need to just accept this thing is not intended to compete against the PS4/XB Scorpio, even if it was, 2 TFLOP GPU wouldn't be good enough because now the baseline would be "well this thing still can't run Call of Dooty as well as a Neo and Scorpio", so it's a pissing match that Nintendo wouldn't win.