What do you want in a Switch 2?

[Leynos]

shikamaru317 said:

Leynos said:

Pretty sure Ampere will release in 2020.

Ampere is the next generation of Nvidia’s desktop graphics. Switch 2 will not be using desktop graphics, I can assure you of that. Nintendo needs a chip that only uses about 10 watts for handheld play, which means they either have to use an Nvidia Tegra chip, or go with another mobile chip supplier like Qualcomm, at the cost of backwards compatibility with Switch 1 games.

Now I suppose they could contract Nvidia to build a custom Tegra chip which uses Ampere graphics cores, but that would be very expensive, likely out of the budget for a $300-350 system in 2022. Maybe in 2023 if they decide to wait that long, but I doubt they will.

They likely will. It won't be Xavier. Xavier is not designed for gaming at all. Doesn't support a lot of modern feature sets. Nvidia likely will make a chip based on Ampere like X1 was based on Maxwell and X2 on Pascal.