What do you want in a Switch 2?

[JRPGfan]

Alistair said:

A future Switch can beat the PS4 Pro in everything except the GPU. For GPU power you are too thermally constrained. But the CPU and solid state storage can equal or surpass current consoles. I think that's why these arguments are going nowhere. No doubt a future Switch will be stronger and weaker, depending on what you are looking at.

The iPad Pro already has an amazing CPU that absolutely wallops the PS4 and PS4 Pro. But the GPU will take a lot longer to reach that level. I'm ok with that as CPU tends to be the most important part to get high frame rate gaming at 1080p type resolutions.

"But the CPU and solid state storage can equal or surpass current consoles." - Ali

Supposedly PS5 / XBSX, will have Ryzen Zen 2 CPU's..... with 8 cores / 16 threads.
Thats like a downclocked "Ryzen 7 3700x". (this CPU competes with a i5-9600k in gameing benchmarks)

How in hell do you beat that with any current ARM cpu? (from what I understand there no where close to that yet)

Also even those Solid State storage is smaller than traditional harddrives.... they still take up quite alot of space.
Space a handheld device probably wont have, to spare.  

Thats ontop of all the things that lay beneath, that allows it to run the way it does.
Which again, no normal ARM chip would have. 
Nintendo would have to not buy "off the rack" normal mobile chips, for them to get anywhere close to what your claiming.
(basically this would be expensive as hell, if at all possible (the cpu thingy just isnt))

Alistar what you said, comes off sounding like dreams & wishfull thinking, without anything from reality backing it up.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 03 January 2020