SvennoJ said:
Funny to see people 'celebrating' the 'gimped' Series S as a bridge to a hypothetical Switch 2, hoping a Switch 2 will be a lot more powerful than the Switch. Which is it? Do you want moar powar or less powar :p
I don't think Nintendo is in a hurry with a Switch successor, nor do they care much about higher specs. I doubt any Switch 2 will exceed the Steam Deck and certainly won't come near PS5 and Series X. How well Series S will be supported after the cross gen period is behind remains to be seen. Lower res, lower fps, lower detail, it can only go so far. A Switch 2 might compare to a base ps4 in terms of performance. I wouldn't expect more.
The Switch was originally pegged at 1 tflops as well, turned out to be 340-390 gflop (docked) in practice. Series S is 'gimped' compared to ps5 and Series X yet is still 10x faster than the Switch in raw tlops count. I doubt a Switch 2 will be 10x faster than the Switch. Even if it would be half as fast as Series S, porting will still be difficult when Series S is already stretching the limits to keep up with Series X.
Also memory will be a bottleneck. Switch has 25.6 GB/s bandwidth, Series S runs at 224 GB/s, another 10x difference. Doubt a Switch 2 will get 10x faster RAM.
Will Switch 2 have a high speed SSD? 2.4 GB/s throughput on Series S, Switch cards top out at 104 MB/s, Series S is 23x faster!
Once games are targeted for this generation, it will get a lot harder to port down.
In the end priorities for Nintendo are reasonable starting price while making profit from day one. Everything included has to be able to be sold for $299 at a profit. |
A 10x jump in GPU performance generation over generation is not unheard of, in fact that’s about how much more powerful the Series X is than the Xbox One.
I think you are overestimating the costs of a lot of these parts, especially in 2024. Valve is getting Xbox One level graphical performance with a modern CPU and an SSD on par with the Series X|S, and LPDDR5 memory that matches the bandwidth of GDDR6, all for $500 in 2022. And they don’t have the volume/price advantages that Nintendo will have. I absolutely think a switch 2 with Series S performance in 2024 for $400 will be achievable
