Cobretti2 said:
Soundwave said:
Who says a TX2 based Switch would be any more expenisve?
Nintendo fans have funny ideas about hardware power and how hardware power must cost waaaaay more. That's not how things work. Costs scale over time and new technology replaces old technology.
If it wasn't then use some common sense here, every new iPhone, which is updated every year and offers usually abou double the performance of the last model would cost twice as more. Except they don't. They usually cost basically the same price.
So yes, sure, Nintendo could have a Switch in 2018 which is TX2 based and simply replaces the older model at the $299.99 price point. And there could be a cheaper one too at $249.99 (the smaller model with a smaller/lower quality screen) for example.
Also why can't you have both? Nintendo released both a New 3DS and a New 3DS XL. Apple now releases iPhones in regular and Plus sized models. The reason is consumers *like* choice. Just because you want a smaller, cheaper model doesn't mean you are even in the majority of what people want in a Switch revision (in fact I suspect you are actually in the minority here). But that's ok, because people should have a choice.
And more Switch models is actually only natural because Switch is replacing Nintendo's entire hardware line, I think you are dead wrong if you are saying there's merely going to be only 1 revision in the next 3 years for the Switch and that's all the hardware Nintendo is basically going to have. I doubt it. You will see a lot of Switch models over the years IMO. Part and parcel because by going the hybrid route Nintendo is losing money from their core base that would buy a console and handheld in the past ... one way to recoup that is to have more hardware models for the current Switch and encourage more double dipping hardware purchases.
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TBH Nvidia produced so many TX1 chips that it wouln't suprise me that the come up with some sort of deal with Nintendo to use them first at a very heavily discounted price to move them all first before a revision.
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Even when the TX1 first came out though it was in cheap devices ... $199.99 US Sheild console was available .... two years ago. TX2 is just the natural newer version of that chip, it's not going to cost like 2x as much, just like Apple doesn't pay magically double for the new GPU in every iPhone they buy, even though iPhone's generally double in horsepower every year.
That's just the natural progression of mobile chips, this is also new territory for Nintendo because the Switch chipset basically has no customizations really. So Nintendo can just keep use the Tegra line of chips, much like Apple does with PowerVR chips for every generation of iPhone and iPad. It's for the best really, Nintendo's overly customized chipsets with weird IBM CPUs and eDRAM pools and exotic memory types and all that wasn't really benefitting the games and it made revising the chip or dropping the price problematic because no one else but Nintendo was using that tech.
It also means Nintendo has options now ... if they wanted to do this in the past and their chip was more custom, redesigning the chip for whatever reason cost money because it was a custom design only they would use. The way it is now, Nvidia is making these chips (Tegra X2 for example) anyway, so Nintendo can just let them do all the R&D and use their chip basically whenever they feel like.
