Wall Street Journal Japan Reports A New Switch Model Will Release In The Second Half Of 2019

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KazumaKiryu said:

Soundwave said:

This is how I would do it.

Switch Lite (launches Spring/Summer 2019)
Die-shrink Tegra X1 chip to 14nm FinFet
Left/right bezels on Switch eliminated, resulting in smaller system (less width)
Less weight
60% increase in battery life

Switch Pro (March 2020)
7nm custom Nvidia Tegra (comparable to Apple A12X)
450-500 GFLOP undocked, 1.2 TFLOP docked
8GB RAM with 58GB/sec bandwidth
1080p 7.4 inch display, 128GB onboard flash storage
$349.99 MSRP

Sounds good, but is point 2 possible ?

ps. thx @ Oneeee-Chan

Not for $350. The only Tegra based SoC I know of that would be able to achieve that kind of power is the Xavier which isn't even out yet.  Even though I like the idea of staggered hardware generations like Soundwave has described (even advocated for it before we knew what the Switch was), I don't think that's the priority for Nintendo nor is it financially viable at the moment.  What they want to do is try to drop the price of the Switch to as close to $200 as possible by the end of next year because that will probably be the console's impulse purchase price point which will allow for multiple Switch units per household like Nintendo wants.