monocle_layton on 23 January 2017
| bonzobanana said: Do you have a link, I can't find it. Still no confirmation. Nintendo confirmed the wii u 2GB back at launch but have been quiet on the Switch memory. No one seems to know for sure. There was a rumour of a foxconn employee seeing 2 chips on the motherboard but this could still be 2GB or even 1GB. 4GB seems a funny amount of memory when the memory bandwidth is meant to be 25.6GB/s and the GPU gflops are sub 400 or 150 approx when portable. It seems like too much memory for the rest of the system. 2GB would be ample for this performance level for a console. I guess it depends on how much memory the OS takes. I think there is a real possibility that it is 2GB unless confirmed as 4GB. It was always meant to be 2GB for retail units going by the rumours but then there was a rumour it had been upgraded to the same as the dev kit's for the retail units. It's certainly possible Nintendo had second thoughts about future games being limited by memory and decided to go with 4GB to future proof the design. The more powerful Nvidia Shield boxes only have 3GB of memory so the weaker Switch gets more memory and even runs games from cartridge which is effectively adding to memory somewhat. Seems excessive for Switch. |
Must have been cheaper to go for 4gb since most mobile developers ship their phones/tablets with 4 gb of memory. Going for 2gb probably would've Made more problems that can be avoided by just going with 4.
