Bloomberg: Nintendo to release cheaper Switch model by end June, 'modest' upgrade by end of year

[Random_Matt]

jonathanalis said:

Random_Matt said:
Using the X2 would be changing architecture, no one starts a new gen that quickly. Would be a waste of potential additional power being held up by ones still using the original switch.

But X2 is not the same as X1, but at 16nm instead of 20, and just added 2 denver cores?

Take a X2, take out the 2 denver cores; or take a X1, shrink the process to 16nm. Wouldnt both result in (almost) the same?

You can shrink the X1 as much as you like, the X2 has a higher memory bandwidth for starters so that is a no brainer in my books if that was a option for Nintendo to take. Yes, it does have an additional CPU cluster which would help in performance, but ask the tech guru of this site. 

The X2 may well be able to give performance increase in the games released so far, so could more or less act in the same way as the X1X.