Leynos said:
Nintendo basically stuck with ATI/AMD for close to that long. Nintendo is not stupid enough to build the tools with Nvidia to support Switch to suddenly start over with someone else. |
If Nvidia don't produce a decent chip, I can guarantee that Nintendo will go elsewhere. Potentially there may be an Nvidia laptop chip they can switch to, but that wouldn't be a direct Tegra replacement either.
Mobile chips are mostly compatible with each other (it's all just Vulkan toolkit, there isn't really an Nvidia-only toolset these days). Nintendo could look to Samsung or maybe a custom ARM Mali GPU - those guys have the mass market to do R&D. Nvidia never built a marketshare in that space - I always assumed that they just gave Nintendo a good deal to cut their losses on Tegra...