Nintendo NX may have originally been using AMD chips in early 2013-14 prototyping

[JEMC]

Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

If you do that, you're not customizing a chip, you're making a new one.

The Drive PX 2 uses multiple chips, yes, but they aren't used for gaming. There are some computational tasks that have 100% scaling across different cores and processors, but gaming is not one of them. That's why no console manufacturer uses that configuration for their machines.

Lastly, it's not Nintendo who decides how developers use their machines... at least not unless the give them dev kits that hold them back on purpose. And that's a very, very bad idea.

Or Nintendo could just say the hybrid is the only model and you get nothing else. 

I'd prefer the option of having NX dock or console at some point. Since Nintendo is likely not going to want to spend a ton of money on it, it could be built off the Tegra X1/2. 

Better than nothing. If all it does is make NX games run at 1080P instead of 540-720p ... fine with me. 

Developers/consumers are really not in a position to beg Nintendo for anything here, Nintendo I could see very easily just doing this hybrid setup and enjoy your 600 GFLOP Tegra X/2 for the next 4-5 years. Nintendo doesn't give two fucks. I'd rather have an option for something better for home use if its possible. 

Is an Apple A9X a "new chip" from an Apple A9? I doubt Apple seriously pays double the R&D, they're just two processors from the same family, but the A9X has some significant customizations that make it considerably more powerful (along with a different memory layout). 

You would like a hybrid device plus a powered dock, and I would prefer to have a handheld and a home console. It doesn't matter what we want, we'll have to deal with whatever Nintendo has decided to design.

But even if they do have a powered dock like you prefer, they don't really need a second Tegra chip. The Tegra X2 is a very CPU heavy device. So much that, Nintendo could "disable" the two Denver cores on it while NX is used as a handheld device and only enable them at full speed while docked, and pair it with a more powerful GPU on the dock. That way you'd get a handheld with the power of a Tegra X1, and a console with the power of, for example, a GTX 1060 3GB, enough to put the PS4/X1 to shame.

Oh, and developers won't beg Nintendo anything. They get what they want or they move forward and forget about that platform.