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curl-6 on 01 January 2017
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mutantsushi said:
curl-6 said:

Power wise, 3DS was a gen behind when it released though.

And what I meant was, maybe people would be happier with the specs if they thought of it more as a portable than a console.

When smartphones/tabs have more power, on modern 14nm SoCs, simply restraining scope to "portable" hardly ensures winning impression. Although 14nm SoC was/is certainly within realm of possibility for Nintendo (as for smartphones/tabs), RAM bw/power issues still remain. Clearly 14nm would have enabled SOME higher performance even if full ~30% perf:watt couldn't be used if memory bw increased to match.

Oh don't get me wrong, I think Nintendo have dropped the ball by nerfing the Tegra X1 so drastically, and that they should've gone with a newer fab, all I'm saying is that people might be less disappointed if they thought of it as a successor to current gen portables.