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Soundwave on 16 December 2016
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KLAMarine said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

Where are you getting this information from?

Correction it's 10 watts for the GPU (this is still a lot for a mobile device), the Nvidia Shield console which has the Tegra X1 pushes 20 watts total as a system. 

Keep in mind though the Switch can't just power the GPU and nothing but. The CPU, WiFi, RAM, LCD screen among other components consume electricity too.