If Sony makes a "Playstation Switch" could it succeed?

[KBG29]

HoangNhatAnh said:

KBG29 said:

The Switch is using a 2 year old SOC. AMD has the Raven Ridge APU's Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U. These chips have the same 15 Watt TDP of the Tegra X1, and offer a massive increase in CPU power, and upto 1.5x the GPU power. 

In 2019 - 2020 we will have 3rd gen or 4th gen Ryzen tech and Navi or its successor, which are focused on scalability and performance per watt. This will all be delivered on 7nm fabrication instead of the current 14nm, which in of itself, will deliver massive gains, let alone the achitecture improvements.

Building a mobile device in 2019 - 2020 that is cheaper, stronger, and lasts longer than the Switch will be no challenge at all. Building a mobile device that destroys the PS4 in CPU power, and tops it in GPU power in 2019 - 2020 will be no issue at all. Nintendo could build a Switch right now, that is cheaper, with more power, and a twice the battery life using the Tegra X2.

X2 is only 25% faster than X1 and hasn't been used in any mobile platform yet, only car so far. Not for general public mean  it will be more expensive. Till 2020 they will use X3 instead. And your 7nm exist in your theory no way is just $250 with 4 -5 hours when play on the go. No battery tech with cheap price like that exist yet 

So you agree the X2 is already faster.

The X2 is built on a smaller fab, so it is cheaper to produce per chip. If Nintendo wanted to use it in a revision the cost would be slightly lower per chip at those rates. There is absolutely no issues with 16nm FinFET.

I don't  doubt Nintendo will skip the X2, but I also am not 100% sure they will use Xavier either. They may end up using X4 in 2019 as it should be more mobile focused than X3 (Xavier).

7nm is absolutely not something that only exsists in my theory. It is 100% on AMDs road map, and signs point to it coming as soon as late next year.

Chip costs are determined by the size and the yield rates. A mobile chip wiith PS4 level power will be smaller than the current PS4 Slim 14nm design. That only leaves yield rates, and that depends on how smoothly and quickly 7nm matures.

You do realize that smartphones will be more powerful than PS4 by 2020 right? Smartphones only cost about $200 - $300 to manufacture, the Smartphone companies are just taking massive advantage of everyone that buys into the hype. Non of the console manufactures have ever marked up their products, in fact it has generally been the exact opposite. Don't be mis-lead, Switch is not cutting edge, and phones don't actually cost $600 - $1,200.