curl-6 said:
Because that would create unrealistic expectations. This is just a simple "silent" revision that improves battery life and nothing else, there's no need to make a big deal out of it, especially when their focus at the moment in on their actual new revision, the Lite. |
That's a marketing decision on their part, but this actually is a fairly decent power improvement. It's not just a "battery increase" ... because shrinking the die node means the chip can achieve higher performance now at previous wattages.
For example the new Switch can likely run games at docked performance (over 2x performance increase) portably with this new model if the user is willing to have battery life more akin to the original Switch for that title. Which would be a nice choice for some games that run really badly in portable mode.
And even docked, the old Switch could not run the Tegra X1 chip past 77% ... this new one would be able to go to 100% performance at least, possibly more because it's higher clocked (1.2 GHz max clock versus 1 GHz).
Even the new LPDDR4x RAM increases memory bandwidth.
The question is will Nintendo allow devs to use these higher performance modes ... my guess is yes they'll allow it eventually, but it'll be done quietly.
