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curl-6 on 15 July 2020
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Pavolink said:
curl-6 said:

No; Switch's chipset was 2 years ahead of PS4/Xbone and those systems had low end CPUs and mid range GPUs for their time.

The Switch successor you propose would be only 1 year or less newer than PS5/XSX which have higher end parts for their time.

As such, the gap would be much bigger and a Switch 2 using a 2020/2021 mobile SoC would be less able to run AAA PS5/XSX games than Switch is able to run AAA PS4/Xbone games.

If you want AAA PS5/XSX ports, you'll have to wait longer for mobile tech to catch up.

Considering this premise, if PS5 and Xbox Series X tech are higher end parts this time, and if the Switch successor needs to wait until mobile tech catch up to get those AAA ports, then Nintendo will have to wait much longer than the 2 years that the original Switch needed, maybe to wait at least to 2023 tech and release at 2025.

Releasing in 2024 or 2023 would probably get the job done, but 2021/2022 will severely limit what ports it can get.