Nintendo Switch could keep evolving with Nvidia Tegra just like PS4 and PS4 Pro

[Scisca]

Wyrdness said:

Scisca said:

Lol. Loool. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, do you? Let me remind you that a console isn't just the GPU, but also the CPU. Both are important and it's far and away cheapest and most convenient, when they come on one chip, from one manufacturer. Now that you've learned that, look at this simple graph:

Intel - great CPU, shitty GPU <- pricey
nVidia - shitty CPU, great GPU <- pricey
AMD - great CPU (Zen), great GPU <- reasonably priced

Nuff said. AMD isn't going anywhere when it comes to home consoles, as it has no viable competition whatsoever. It's the only company out there, that can offer both the CPU and GPU which perform well enough for home consoles' needs. The only reason Nintendo went with nVidia is because AMD has nothing to offer for the handheld market, while nVidia has the Tegra. But when it comes to homeconsoles, no company can compete with AMD. If Sony/MS went with nVidia GPU, what CPU would they put in the console? Tegra? That would be a joke of a console and an instantly lost generation for the company that went this way. AMD is the only company that brings to table all that's needed in one sexy package, nVidia can't compete even if it wanted to. The Switch being a handheld is a blessing that allowed them to remain present outside the PC market.

Nah you don't say a console is more than a GPU, considering the CPU in PS4 and X1 are eseentially chips that normally are in mobile I don't think you really can boast about great CPUs for consoles in that regard, considering the debate is about GPUs that's a bit null and void as well.

You act like MS and Sony have never opted to utilize different companies for components, 360 from Gen7 did it just fine, companies will go with they feel is best, AMD being convenient doesn't lock the console market to them.

Scorpio is rumoured to have an 8-core Zen CPU. Trust me, you won't find such a thing in mobile. Xbone and PS4 are bottlenecked by their CPUs, but that's partially because AMD had inferior tech in the past. With the new generation of CPUs, they'll be able to push consoles that much further - and still, nVidia isn't even in the same ballpark when it comes to CPU performance as the old AMD CPUs. Doesn't matter what the debate is about, the CPU part makes your speculations null and void.

Sure. Many strange things were done in the past, in the PS2 era a console being unfriendly for developers and hard to write games for was seen as a good thing. Sony could get an nVidia GPU and tell IBM to make a Cell 2 and make the PS5 costs $1000 to manufacture again. But guess who'd win that generation if MS went for cheap off-the-shelf SoC parts from AMD? Competition may always arise, but as for now - there is no company remotely close to being a viable alternative. Especially not when Polaris is on par with Pascal and Zen is in the same ballpark as Skylake. AMD is at a really high point right now, it'll take a very strong effort to take the home console market away from them.