Nintendo Switch... the gimmick is not bad.

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Soundwave said:

Captain_Yuri said:
Do any of you nice people know how leaker got the 3 hour number from? Like I know she got it from the dev kit but does it say in the specs somewhere that the consumer edition will be 3 hours or did she just ran a game on the dev kit and tested to see how long it lasted?

Cause it would be a bit odd for a dev kit to last very long since its a dev kit... Why would anyone put a care worthy battery inside a dev kit? Those are meant to be used for programming, and not for an actual replacement for the device right?

3 hours makes sense though for anyone who's research the Tegra X1 chips ... it consumes 10 watts just for the GPU when running full tilt. 

Even the largest tablet battery would die in about 3 hours with that chip being pushed hard. The iPad Pro, the massive 12-inch Apple tablet has a 38.8 wH (watt hour battery), that means if a chip + LCD screen + RAM are consuming say 12-13 watts, such a battery would be dead in about 3 hours. 

There's no ifs, ands, or buts about this either or some magic Nintendo technology to change it, portable electronics are tightly constrained by battery technology. 

Yes but this is a custom version with their latest Pascal which has made massive improvements to performance/watt. They were able to fit desktop GPUs inside the same laptops that only had the mobile varients last generation. Just to put it in prespective, a 980M is not even as fast as a Desktop 970 last generation. But the 1080 inside the same laptops that have a 980M are faster than 2 Desktop 970s combined. If that isn't stupid amounts of efficiency gains, idk what is.

Yes but that also has a larger screen, higher resolution, stuff like cameras, better display, NVMe storage and much more than what the NS will have.

Not saying Nintendo but Nvidia. Nvidia engineers aren't exactly the same as Nintendo engineers and this is Nvidia's wet dream. They have been wanting someone to take their technology and popularize it since forever but no one does due to a wide amount of reasons. Not saying that it will certainly result in them having success but it is the best chance they got.