| Lonely_Dolphin said: To be fair, no one has to do anything, so why have this discussion? |
Because we can.
| Lonely_Dolphin said: For Nintendo to remain in business they have to do things. |
Correct.
| Lonely_Dolphin said: Greatly dropping the Switch's price mid-cycle at the expense of desired features while there's already a cheap option in 3DS I don't think is one of those things. |
The 3DS is archaic, it's on the way out. In a few years it will be an irrelevant platform if it isn't already. (I don't really keep an eye on sales.)
Nintendo needs variants of the Switch to hit multiple price points to appeal to more consumers, sell more games and services.
| flashfire926 said: If there are any tech guys here, I have a question. Will a Switch Revision, with a Nvidia Tegra X2, with 64 or 128 gb flash storage, be feasible for Early 2019, at a price of $299? |
Yes. Could be argued that it is feasible now.
| Bofferbrauer2 said: I'd say 2021 With the hardware flaws in the Tegra chips I'm sure Nintendo asks NVidia to iron these out first, and as a result should recieve a true custom Tegra chip My expectation is somewhere around this: TSMC 7nm process (Nintendo tends to use an older, proven process and hardware, by that time 7nm and what I write below hopefully fits that bill to them) 4-6 Cortex A75 CPU @ 1.5-1.7 Ghz 384 Turing Cuda Cores @400 (Handheld)-800Ghz (Docked) or 256 Pascal Cuda Cores @600-1200Ghz 8GB LPDDR4-2666, 128bit connection (the LP variant isn't specified higher than that, sadly) 128GB Flash Memory 5000-6000 mAh internal battery In 7nm, a configuration close to that should get close to XBO S power in docked mode and slightly more powerful in handheld mode than the docked mode now without consuming more, and the stronger battery allows for longer game sessions in handheld mode. |
Doubt it. The costs would be pretty big for a revision like that. I think Nintendo will just continue to use off the shelf components. Aka. Pascal.
Besides... The RAM will blow the costs out, Turing Cores isn't going to happen.
I also think you meant Mhz, not Ghz.
7nm will also be fairly expensive compared to a much more mature 16/14/12nm process, especially as capacity is freed up on those nodes as AMD/Intel/nVidia/Apple/Qualcomm etc' move to newer nodes.
Now if they intend to make a "premium" console along the lines of the Playstation 4 Pro/Xbox One X where cost isn't going to be a big factor, then sure. But Turing is still unlikely to happen.
| Bofferbrauer2 said: Sure, an Tegra X2 could do the trick, but considering the inherent massive flaws in the chips (just google Spectre and Meltdown) I'm damn sure Nintendo will want new hardware with those flaws eliminated, something that takes a lot of time to implement. Late 2020 is therefore the earliest possible unless Nintendo really accepts the X2 "as is" for a Switch hardware upgrade |
The flaws can be mitigated to a certain degree.
Really depends how many resources Nintendo wants to throw at the problem.
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