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[Mr Puggsly]

derpysquirtle64 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I don't think Nintendo is really the arbiter of console gens. Especially when they've essentially given up on that. I say this as a Nintendo fan.

Since 2006 they started making consoles that felt a gen behind. This holiday their specs will feel almost two gens behind because Switch is handheld so it wasn't a massive boost over Wii U.

I don't feel Switch kills gen talk, Nintendo is just doing its own thing with moderately priced and portable specs at the moment.

Switch kills gen talk because it falls out of place. We can expect another revision midway through gen 9 which will lead to even more questions - is Switch 2 a gen 9 console or gen 10. And so on. The concept of gens worked because the console market overall was iterational. Every console manufacturer released new hardware in around the same time frame. This isn't the case anymore, so concept of gens seems pointless.

I feel Switch falls out of place because its a portable device. It uses specs built specifically for that first.

The belief is Switch 2 would use upgraded specs Nvidia has already developed. Switch is using Nvidia's Tegra X1. There were rumors a new Switch would probably use Tegra X2, but it seems like a newer SoC called Xavier which would be a massive upgrade. In practice though, that might just be specs closer to Xbox One. Which would be impressive for a portable device.

A new Switch might be seen as a 10th gen platform. However, we all know its capabilities are limited given its portable focus.