Theory/Prediction: Sony is about to reveal a Portable PS4

[Pemalite]

Conina said:

Pemalite said:

How do I know? Because architecturally it's not a massive overhaul from Tegra X1. But it does clock higher, it is built on a better fabrication process and does have a couple of extra tricks like enhanced delta colour compression.

As for why Smartphones and Tablets don't use the "superior" Pascal Soc? Well. To be blunt... No one uses nVidia anymore in the Tablet/Smartphone space anymore anyway.
It's very much dominated by Qualcomm... With vertically integrated manufacturers opting for their own solutions like Apple with it's AX line, Samsung with Exynos, Huawei with Kirin... And then you have the likes of Allwinner, Mediatek and Rockchip bringing up the budget rear.

"Not a massive overhaul" doesn't mean that the price is similar. As you say yourself, Tegra X1 wasn't/isn't very popular for smartphones and tablets. So Nvidia was very interested to get a buyers for these SoCs to clear their stock. They probably made Nintendo a good deal for the TX1-SoCs.  

That is an assertion.
We don't know if nVidia had any surplus stock.

But we do know they are fabricating more chips to meet Nintendo's needs.

Conina said:

Pemalite said:

In short... nVidia exited the Phone market entirely as the profit margins and design wins just weren't happening... And has served the declining tablet market with older, outdated designs.
Thus they refocused there efforts on more specialized markets such as Cars, IoT and so on.

Yeah, they refocused their Tegra efforts on the much more profitable specialized car market. Car manufacturers don't have any problems to pay much higher prices for these SoCs... they multiply these costs for their customers anyways and make lots of profits from these "extras".

If Nintendo had said in 2015 (when they were planning the Switch) or in 2016 (when they were manufacturing the Switch) "We want the Tegra X2 instead of the Tegra X1", Nvidias first answer would have been "We are not offering the TX2 for these small form factors, they go in cars and we have more than enough orders for them." If Nintendo insisted, the second answer would have been: "Sure, if you pay as much for them as the car manufacturers. But for the Tegra X1 we can make you a much better price."

Again, you have no proof whatsoever that the price difference for Nintendo would only have been "minimal".

And you have  no proof for any of that either.

From a fabrication standpoint, The Tegra Pascal would be cheaper to manufacture, that's a blatant fact.