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HoloDust on 22 October 2016
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Soundwave said:
HoloDust said:

I like how people are not noticing that Switch is a fat piggy...14-15mm, if people are correct extrapolating from that video, with what seems like active cooling. For comparison, iPad Pro is 7mm.

If X1 on 20nm had problem running at 1GHz in slim tablet (since it consumes 20W), I bet its 14nm successor in something as fat as Switch (with active cooling) might have a lot less problems...especially after that 3h battery rumour.

I'm fine with the thickness, a game handheld needs to have some thickness to it otherwise it's not comfortable to hold. An iPad is too thin, iPads are razor thin.

Vita (first gen) to me is perfect thickness, that felt great in my hands and thats about 14-15 mm. So I'm fine with that. 

To be honest, and I'm very picky about this, I had no qualms with the looks of the NS at all. It looks like a very slick piece of kit, the shot in the airport with the blonde girl meeting the guy showed the thickness of the unit quite well and I thought that was fine. It looks good, a big change from the awkward, bulky Wii U tablet design. 

Oh, I'm not saying there's a problem with thickness of NS, quite the opposite in fact. I'm just commenting that (most) folks don't realize that it's pretty fat with what seems as active cooling and call it "just a tablet".

Now, this is "just a tablet":

Pixel C, 7mm thick, with Tegra X1 inside with peak clock of 850MHz (as opposed to Shield TV box which is clocked at 1GHz)...so that's 435GFLOPS of nVidia goodness in "just a tablet".

So, if Nintendo really wanted to go all out, with X1 successor on 14nm and NS being as thick as it is, they could've really crammed something really powerful inside...and maybe, just maybe, they have.