Global Hardware 8 December 2018 (Smash Week)

[DonFerrari]

drinkandswim said:

DonFerrari said:

It is just plain impossible for the "best" portable solution to be better than the "best" "desktop" solution. It's a very simple equation on power, price, battery.

Why or how do you think you would make PS5/X2 equivalent portable, with good battery life and similarly priced?

Because I will tell you that for it to be portable you need to consume less energy so if it is a similar architeture you'll have less performance, if it is a better architeture you will have bigger cost.

So you can expect Switch 2 to have X1 or PS4 level processing power, but at that time PS5/X2 will have about 8-10 times the processing power.

Switch doesn't have same level of AAA games on graphical level nor will Switch 2. As much as PS4/X1 nor PS5/X2 will have same graphical power as upper class gaming rigs.

I never said anything about a PS5/X2 Portable Equivalent. I said Nintendo Switch needs to release a Pro that can offer Xbox One/PS4 graphics by the time the Next Gen arrives on the market in order to stay relevant, and get some third party ports. 

Switch is quite "near" X1/PS4 graphics. But by next gen time that won't be enough to get ports.

X1 is like 1,2 TF and next gen on 12-15TF level (less than that would be low considering X1X already cross 6TF), I know TF isn't all but just as generic measuring the gap we can stay on it. So if Switch Pro or Switch 2 only get inside 1,2-1,6 TF level of processing power/graphics it won't receive AAA 3rd party (not that it even needs, AA and Indies would be enough to fill the gaps on Nintendo releasing schedule).

More important than reaching near X1 or PS4 level of graphic would be similar tech of PS5 and X2, because not using similar tech (even if a lot less powered) would be worse on the scalability and porting than the pure power gap.