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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea I think they need to take a step back and have an evolution of the switch than another complete redesign. Don't pull a Switch U so to speak. If they can keep the switch formula, improve up on a few things (especially the joy cons) and have that Nvidia hardware that we are all hoping for, the next Switch can be incredible.

It's also pretty clear that third parties want the hardware so they can port games to it otherwise Capcom wouldn't have made Nintendo to have 4GB of Vram instead of just 2GB. Imagine the insanity if the Switch had only 2GB to work with when it launched but it's also why it's hard to trust them. Hopefully they learned their lesson because man... If Nintendo goofs up the type of opportunity they have with Nvidia. Like I'd face plant so hard.

I just hope that their next system puts more focus on AAA support, because even some indie titles (3D based) are picking up the requirements and at times looking blurry on the Switch compared to the PC/other consoles.

If they mess up and try to keep their next system cheaper, then they'll end up facing another Wii U scenario, where 3rd parties go back to abandoning them again. Switch already feels like it's more dated and it only released back in 2017, not even a full 5 years and I already wish they had new hw (which tells me personally that they chose poorly for Switch in the first place, as no console should age that fast). 

Doesn't help that the Switch didn't leverage the latest and greatest nVidia Tegra SoC on it's release... So it was already outdated. Pascal could have offered 50% more performance at the same powerlevel and not added much to the cost.

But that 4GB of LPDDR4 1600Mhz memory is NOT doing the switch any favors in 2021, that bandwidth is limiting fillrate and keeping resolutions low and developers are struggling to work with 3GB of work-space. (As the OS gobbles a chunk.)

The Switch is a fantastic device, it's just not aging well visually, especially as we venture forth into the Global Illumination/Ray Tracing era.