Miyamotoo on 02 July 2018
| Cerebralbore101 said: They'd be better off, promptly launching the Switch's successor March 03rd of 2022. Same concept, better hardware, and backwards compatible with Switch. But Nintendo won't do that. They have a bad habit of dropping nearly all support for their current console, waiting a year, and then launching a successor. Wii was nearly unsupported for all of 2012, before they launched the Wii U. The Wii U barely got anything from summer 2016 to spring 2017, when the Switch launched. |
Probably that will not be problem any more because they intend to stick to same tech and architecture (Nvidia + ARM) thats in Switch.
| Soundwave said: Custom Tegra Xavier would be the ticket IMO. Full sized Xavier is way too big and beastly ... it's 5 TFLOPS at an amazing 30 watts or so, but they probably could deliver Nintendo a custom build that could run at 600 GFLOPS undocked/1.7 TFLOP docked (1/3 of a full size Xavier). That would be an insane portable, basically any current gen title would be portable, and even probably a good number of PS5/XB Scarlet titles if you're OK with 540p-720p portable. |
Tegra Xavier could be possibility for Switch 2, not for Switch Pro, Tegra X2 would be perfect for Switch Pro.
| Cobretti2 said: It won't happen with Switch. Switch 2 maybe and that would be through the dock and a supplementary gpu. However the port on the console would need to be fast enough. Maybe thunderbolt 4 will be fast enough to make it worth it. |
Why do you think that, we had DSi and New 3DS that both had stronger hardware than original versions of those consoles, something similar can be expected for Switch also.
| JEMC said: I don't think they'll launch a Switch Pro. Devs already have to work with two configurations for their games, and adding a third one will only make the optimization more complicated. And if they go with the same idea of the New 3DS of making Switch Pro only games, that would break their userbase, making less developers interested in it. What they may do is a Switch Mini, with a slightly smaller screen and using the Tegra X2 at lower clocks to give the same performance as the current X1 on the Switch. The end product would give the exact same performance for those that use it as a home console, but for those that use it as a handheld it would mean a more portable device with a longer battery life. |
I dont think Nintendo cares to much about that, we had DSi and New 3DS, its almost certain that they will do something similar for Switch also.
I can see Switch Pro/XL and Switch Mini/Pocket also, Nintendo inteds to have wider offer of Switch family, similar like 3DS family with 3DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS, New 3DS XL, 2DS and New 2DS XL.
