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Soundwave on 23 March 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

Or it could be bigger than that, an actual hardware ecosystem where you can upgrade as you please and games simply scale up. That is how Apple does it, and the Switch hardware (Tegra is upgraded basically every 14-18 months) allows that to be possible. 

3DS is the past, and not a great past at that. 

But you already have that with New 3DS (in 3DS case just new games scale up) and now with PS4 Pro, and thats why I wrote Swtich Pro. Apple releasing multiplay new iPhones per years and thats normal for mobile phones, but you cant expect that Nintendo will release upgraded Switch versions so soon, maybe something like Sony done with PS4 Pro, after around 3 years.

I think the consumer should decide when and where to upgrade, not some arbitrary date. If newer chips are available, then use them. Sony/MS are moving to 14nm/16nm chips because last year was the first time they're really mass producable. 

Nintendo has an advantage in that their successor chip is basically already 100% complete (Tegra Parker) and not only that the successor to *that* chip is almost finished on top of that (Tegra Xavier), lol. Mobile tech is simply advancing much faster. 

I actually wouldn't have minded a Switch model being able to swap out the main processor entirely, like a cartridge almost or like the N64 RAM pack. These Tegra chips are tiny.