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Soundwave on 16 October 2016
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JEMC said:
Soundwave said:

Yes, expect Nintend to put the 60 million sector of their hardware to the back seat, so their thriving home console business can be the primary ... uh wait ... 

Eurogamer isn't the only one reporting this. IGN and Peer Schnedier have verified it with their own sources. Peer Schneider has been covering Nintendo online for longer than some people have been alive on this board. Wall Street Journal, LPVG, Semi Accurate are also saying Nvidia based Tegra processor. 

Even Julien Chieze, who SuperMetalDave64 was touted as a main source is now also saying that NX is a hybrid device with the detachable controllers. 

The day dreaming over AMD tech is the same as the Wii U/Wii 2/Project Cafe days when a certain porition of the Nintendo fanbase whipped themselves into a frenzy by convincing themselves Nintendo had to use the AMD 4850 (a 1 TFLOP GPU) because "it just made sense". The actual Wii U turned out to be nowhere near that. It's nice AMD has this tech. Nintendo won't be using it though. 

Completely off-topic, but sometimes I hope Nintendo launches a home and a handheld console just to see how you and Miyamotoo would react.

You know, just for fun.

I personally would probably prefer it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense logically (some Nintendo fans are in denial about this, but a Nintendo console at this stage would get slaughtered by the PS4+Neo/XB1+Scorpio) but beyond that there's too many sources saying hybrid and there are also curious comments from Nintendo where they keep referring to the NX in the singular tense. 

Also I'm old enough to have seen this song and dance before, with both the Wii and Wii U there was a vocal group of Nintendo fans that hyped the chipset for both machines (then Project: Revolution and Project: Cafe respectively) to be a lot better than what they actually ended up being because better technology was available at the time so naturally "it would make sense" for Nintendo to use that. 

I even remember Perrin Kaplan, of Nintendo of America at the time, getting roasted and called all types of ugly names when she said Revolution (Wii) would only be 2-3x the power of the GameCube and some people throwing a little shit-fit and saying she had no idea what she was talking about. 

If it was only Eurogamer, I would understand caution, but there are like 5-6 other sources now saying that and these are reputable sites, not little fan sites either.