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drinkandswim on 06 January 2019
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zorg1000 said:
Intrinsic said:

Here is the thin with this.... you are right. But maybe your timeframe or expectations are just off. 

I mean its common sense really, if at 20nm (which is what the X1 APU in the NS is based n we have around 0.5TF of GPU power, then a 7nm APU that takes up the same physical size should be capable of at least 1TF - 1.2TF of GPU power while being more efficient in the process. Which will Put a NS2 at around the power of the XB1.

But what you are missing here is that that isn't new. Technology always gets better The PSV could play PS1 games, the NS can mtch the PS3/360 and even run PS4/XB1 games. And the NS2 will run PS4/XB1 games a lot better than the NS can run them. 

But all that is moot when you consider that for every jump seen in a mobile based hardware, there is an equally big one seen in desktop based hardware. The ceiling keeps getting raised so to speak.

Ya it seems like powerful handhelds have consistently been ~7-8 years behind powerful consoles.

Game Gear released in 1990 and was on par with the 1983 consoles (NES/SG-1000).

Sega Nomad released in 1995 and was essentially a portable Sega Genesis (1988).

N-Gage released in 2003 and had similar visuals as Saturn/PS1 (1995).

PSP released in 2004 and was pretty just under Dreamcast (1998).

Vita released in 2011 and was somewhere in between 6th gen (00/01) & 7th gen (05/06) consoles so about as powerful as a 2003 home console would have been.

Switch released in 2017 and is somewhere between 7th gen (05/06) & 8th gen (2013) consoles so about as powerful as a 2009/2010 would have been.

 

Nothing has changed in this regard.

Its true in that regard. Its just all we have seen so far in consoles is the extra power going towards the resolution jump from 1080P to 4K and FPS improvements. Which are great improvements, but there is a large audience for gaming on the go.