LethalP is absolutely right. Switch is a continuation of Nintendo's portable legacy, and has nothing to do with Xbox and PS. It does compete for gaming time, but isn't the same class of hardware. It's not a home console, just because you can hook up your laptop or tablet to a monitor doesn't make it a desktop. Hardware is roughly defined by its power consumption or mobility. Switch is mobile, so not a home console. Uses 10W chips, so isn't a home console. (you can hook up a Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and Vita using a dock, but they are still mobile systems, not home consoles either).
The Switch launched with a $10 CPU. The GPU is LITERALLY half a Maxwell GTX 750, with half the memory bus, with half the memory speed (uses normal DDR instead of GDDR) and runs at half the clock speed at best while docked. It is 1/8 the speed of a $100 introductory GPU from 2014. NO it is not a home console. Not hard. People just get mad when you point out the obvious. If Apple made a dock for the iPad it wouldn't be a home console either.
It's just the Switch, a portable system. Nothing to do with Sony or Microsoft. Hopefully Nintendo is at work on a new home console. They have the support to make one. Get 8x Hercules CPU cores (releasing next March) and a cut down RTX 3060 (also releasing next March) and stick it in a $300 console for winter 2021. That would be ideal. That's roughly what the nVidia Orin uses anyways (the next nVidia Tegra chip coming out next year).
Last edited by Alistair - on 04 August 2020
