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Pemalite said:

Chazore said:

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 So it was already outdated.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.

Not sure if using the X2 would have resulted in that much more performance, (pure GPU performance was ~50% higher, but when both CPU and GPU were used, the margin tended to be much lower between the two chips iirc) but it would have been the better choice for sure, especially with it's larger memory bandwidth.

I expect NVidia to create a new Tegra chip soon. Not just for the Switch, but also for the Jetson Nano and NVidia Shield devices, which use the same chips as the Switch does. In fact, I believe that without the chip crunch NVidia would already have done it and it would have been the basis of the new OLED model.

It won't be much more than a die-shrinked X2 probably (to 12nm out for originally 16nm), but that alone could result in up to 50% more performance compared to the current model. Most interesting would be that the memory could be increased to 8GB on the next model, which could definitely help some games.