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Soundwave on 11 September 2016
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JEMC said:
Soundwave said:

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.

Well yeah, but Nintendo has also equally shown that they don't give one fat fuck about what developers want, lol. 

I'd be OK with a dock, I think Nintendo is leaning that way too. 

Just my guess, but I think they want to avoid the "you have to buy two seperate Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo games" ... that comes out to $600 right now, and even most Nintendo fans have been choosing (at least 2/3 of the last generations) to say no to that model. 

So a dock could be a solution to at least give people and developers an option and Nintendo could paint it as such (just an option). Like I said though we'll be lucky if we even get that I think, I'd say it's a less than 50-50 chance that Nintendo even bothers going that far. 

That said it would be doable I'm sure by Nvidia engineers if that's what Nintendo wanted. A Tegra X1/X2 scaled up for wall-power use and free of battery power restrictions would be a little beast for sure, I'd bet better than anything AMD could offer in a similar power envelope.