More leaks; Nintendo Switch to use costum Tegra X2, 1.5Tflops, architecture unveiled

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etking said:

This basically confirms that the Switch will only be capable of playing IOS/Android quality games. No way you can run PS4 games on such a slow ARM CPU. It also confirms that the CPU-part of the system is slower than the Wii-U although the GPU-part may be faster.

But the slow CPU will be a bottleneck thart prevents console games from being ported (It is technically impossible to port CPU-heavy games without completely rewriting the engine). But we will se a lot of Iphone / Android games coming to the sysrem. The technical architecture could also allow Nintendo to release all 1st party Switch games on Android / IOS in order to make investors happy. You could then use the Switch controller as a bluetooth remote control. My bet is that this is the unannounced secret feature of the switch and that Skyrim and Zelda will release on Android / IOS too.

I'm not sure what you mean the wii u has 3 terrible 32bit powerpc cpu's that only run at 1.2ghz and are capable of about 9,000 mips combined that were designed back in the last century (no joke). Even the leaked development kit specs which people are saying are too low has 4  arm A57 64bit cores at up to 2ghz which is  36,800 mips. In cpu terms the wii u is absolutely pathetic well below the 360 and PS3.  

Even if the Switch can't match the xbox one and ps4 visually it has a fighting chance of running the same game engines if any developer/publisher can be bothered that is but with much inferior graphics.