Ventura Beat: Nintendo Switch are based on Nvidia's Maxwell Architecture not Pascal

[setsunatenshi]

Miyamotoo said:

setsunatenshi said:

There is no Maxwell at 16nm, what are you talking about? Pascal is at 16nm. Of course we don't have enough info, all of this is a rumour and that's all we're commenting on. If reality kicks in and shows actually they are using Pascal, then good. Then we can point at the 750GFlops figure that we've been on with... otherwise we're talking 500GFlops max which makes it pretty acceptable for a portable, but nowhere near the ballpark of the other consoles. Adding to the fact the next gen will be coming before Nintendo is able to release a new console to compete.

Basically it means, another generation without multiplatform titles unfortunately...

Offcourse there isnt, but Switch is using custom Tegra chip, maybe Nvidia made them 16nm Maxwell Tegra chip.

Even Tegra Maxwell is very new and modern tech/hardware with support for all modern engines and techs, so evre PS4/XB1 port could be done for Switch, so fact that Switch is less powerfule than PS4 doesnt means that Switch want have multiplatform titles.

Sure it will have some multiplatform titles, the same way there are some titles that are crossplay between the PS4 and the Vita. Meaning, smaller, less resource intensive games. Don't expect any major AAA crossover though, especially not going forward when even the vanilla PS4 starts chugging a bit on newer titles compared to the Pro version.

That is something I totally expected though since there was this notion of the so called NX being a 'hybrid' console. I suspect it will be a really cool portable though.