superchunk said:
I doubt NS is going to match these off-the-shelf configuration. After all, where did the 500 man-years of effort go to? Writing the vague announcement of support? |
Probably a large chunk went to ensuring even 3 hour battery life.
The Tegra X1 Maxwell chip eats energy like crazy. It runs at 20 watts when really being pushed ... that would kill even a massive battery in like 45 minutes. Likely Nintendo and Nvidia had to work a ton to get the chip to operate at far more efficiency for game related tasks than that. Also fine tuning it from an all-purpose chip to a game centric chip likely took a while, as did building the dev tools.
Likely Nintnedo also made a lot of specific requests like "absorbing" the Wii U architecture as much as possible likely to make it easier on their developers and allow for easy Wii U engine transfer.
Every chip takes a while to develop even Wii U did.
