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

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Soundwave said:

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

 

Yes, and we've seen how developers respond to that attitude.

Soundwave said:

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. 

The problem with that is the enclosure. You simply can't have a fully cased device like a handheld, smartphone or tablet and, just by having it plugget to the wall, make the chip inside run at full speed because it will overheat. Even with a fan in the dock to cool down the device, it would end overheating.

Of course, you could add a fan to the NX itself but, in my personal opinion, that would be a disaster in terms of design.