| DonFerrari said:
Ok my bad on understanding you put as the likely future. On the price, doesn't matter the technology, anything added will add cost. So not having battery and display will cost less to make than adding both. Also doesn't matter how much tech improve using same tech making the card bigger will also generate more power. Yes very respectable..... people will abbandon their X1 and PS4 to buy Switch and play the portable versions. PC being cheaper to make also means cheaper consoles. |
I don't think you get what is being said here the speculation isn't on the Switch it's on all future platforms adopting the same or similar form factor, you're not reading the posts properly I assume you're only skimming over them because the latest tech is never used in platforms that's the point the will be several progressions between the release of a new platform and its successor the new cards being bigger aren't an issue because they're not used straight away much like consoles never use the last GPU tech either.
This rate of progression lowers the costs of the tech before it for example PS4 level performance or performance close to it is already around in mobile tech but not viable as it's costly and power consuming but over the next 6-7 years progression will make such tech easily viable to the point that tech above PS4 performance may be viable when the Switch's successor is on the way similar to how Switch itself was still able to be in the middle of Wii U and X1 performance wise despite being a hybrid platform.
