Miyamotoo on 09 June 2017
| bonzobanana said: I don't see much in the way of performance upgrades and Nvidia seems to have failed to make Tegra successful in mass acceptance. The reason it was stated Nintendo got the Tegra at a cheap price was because of the failure of Tegra to sell well even claimed use of a stockpile of chips that Nvidia couldn't sell. The Switch is pretty much their only large success for a mass market platform. Most of the future plans for Tegra seem to involve moving towards automobile chipsets and autonomous driving. Future Tegra chipsets may not even be ideal for Nintendo they may even go for a custom chipset based on Tegra X1 with their own desired upgrades to remain 100% compatible with mk1 Switch. I feel Nintendo are more interested in making Switch a better portable device long term rather than tiered performance levels. It's still very much possible Nintendo would ditch Tegra altogether in 5 years time and move to a completely different provider for a chipset. Nintendo have shown pretty much no loyalty to any one company in the past. |
http://www.pcmag.com/news/349540/nvidia-expects-20-year-relationship-with-nintendo-thanks-to
I am pretty sure Nvidia will consider Nintendo needs in future chips and that Nintendo will stick with Nvidia (Nintendo talked about problems when they had with everyone new generation, when they need to start from scratch everything because of new chip, and that they want to fix that).
