How long would you prefer a console lifespan to last before replacement?

[Pemalite]

curl-6 said:

I'm strongly against the idea of releasing iterative hardware upgrades every 1 or 2 years, to me its a horrible idea. I want to buy one device and feel confident that games are going to run properly on it for a good 6 years, not run worse and worse as each new model releases and games become less optimized since they have to target so many different hardware configurations and inevitably the older models get the short end of the stick.

Such a model basically screws over everyone except those super-rich enough to keep buying the latest iteration every year.

Pemalite said:

2021 is probably when 7nm+ with EUV is mature with really good yields while fabs start looking/transitioning towards 5nm.

nVidia of course needs to invent the chip as well... Maybe using Orin? Would be interesting to see if they use their Carmel cores.

Maybe 2022. The ball is entirely within nVidia/AMD/Other ARM manufacturers courts of course.

Alrighty, thanks. So probably add 2 years onto that to account for Nintendo being conservative, like how they used a 2015 Tegra X1 for a 2017 system release. I wonder if they'll end up having to get a custom SoC made for Switch 2, since IIRC, the newer Tegra chips like Xavier are no longer geared towards mobile gaming applications?

Xavier is still geared towards mobile applications, nVidia just chose to throw energy efficiency out the window with the chips it did release in order to hit certain performance and power targets for specific markets.
Chips can scale downwards and upwards surprisingly well in terms of power consumption.

nVidia will still build semi-custom chips based around it's Tegra line for various customers... And if they can reuse those designs for other devices like Shield, then they will probably do so... They might have chosen to give up on Phones and Tablets, but they are still active in this space.