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Soundwave on 02 June 2017
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Pemalite said:
Soundwave said:
Tegra X2 was not an option if they were aiming for a holiday 2016 launch, which is what I'm pretty sure Nintendo was trying for.

Iwata's death (possibly) and typical software delays at Nintendo caused a small delay into 2017, but that was never the intended launch date even if it worked out well for Nintendo.

Software delays is a poor excuse. I feel like that's a strawmans argument now.
The Switch's OS and Software stack is far from fully fleshed out and mature anyway... And it's derived from Android, leveraging nVidia's Software stacks, so it's not like the effort was all on Nintendo at any rate.

Not to mention allot of the software, API's and drivers that work with Maxwell based tegra also... *drum roll* works on Pascal based Tegra. Funny that.
Thus it shouldn't have been a hindrance with the SoC choice.

Getting a 2015 SoC in a 2016 (intended) Nintendo system is about as good as you're gonna get, mate. 

Not sure what exactly you thought was going to happen, you were never getting a 2017 chip in a 2017 Nintendo system, you should know better than that if you know anything about the industry.

They'll probably use the X2 for the first round of Switch revisions in fiscal year 2018-19.