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Soundwave on 21 October 2016
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StuOhQ said:
Soundwave said:

I saw nothing in that trailer that was even close to Ryse, Gears of Wars 4, etc. Everything looked like a Wii U game. 

There simply isn't a mobile chip available that can run XBox One graphics 1 for 1, even the die shrink XBox One S still runs at 50 watts ... now I'm going to break that down for some people, but that means even something the size of an iPad Pro, which has a MONSTER battery would die running 50 watts in about 40 minutes (provided it didn't melt first).

Which is why the tablet will downclock in "portable mode" to conserve battery and lower temperature. When it's in the dock, it will be able to run a full-speed and enable active cooling. 

We don't really know if this is the case. 

There's lots of things techies say Nintendo should do, like a certain group of people who were convinced a 2.5 TFLOP AMD Polaris *had* to happen. 

Nintendo has their own design principals. I'm guessing something like that could be possible, be even so it would still only be a Tegra X2 type processor and there are other issues beyond just clocking. Memory bandwidth doesn't magically change for example just because you have a docked mode. 

Personally I think Nintendo themselves is more than fine with something double the Wii U anyway, I don't think they are even interested in anything beyond that. Pushing the Wii U to its limit probably already required a game budget that was deemed too expensive by Nintendo's standards.