Next Switch tech talk

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freebs2 said:

eva01beserk said:

I'm sure. I was trying to say that they saw the cost of chips now and said no thank you we can wait. We will just make bank while things settle down then jump on what ever architectures are available at the time. Lets not kid ourselves but Nintendo is not gona go crazzy with their desing. Like the switch they will just buy a gen or 2 old chip from nvidea straight off the shelve. 

Why though? Their home consoles always had custom or semi-custom designs, even the WiiU.
Switch was kind of an exception in that regard, but it was a different situation. The Switch was (still) an unproven concept and Nintendo was coming after two of their biggest flops to date. The tegra X1 chip was sort of a low hanging fruit, considering Nvidia already spent R&D on it and they didn't found too many use cases back then.

This time Nintendo has proven the potential of the Switch form factor both internally and to Nvidia. Considering the sales volume we are talking about I'd say it's in the best interest of both parties to use an optimal design for the use case. At the same time of course they won't reinvent the wheel, it's most likely going to be a semi-custom solution.

I wanted that for so long. But there was a rumor around of nvidea pushing for Nintendo to upgrade cuz they wanted to push their new architecture and nintendo was like no thanks were good. I honestly think Nintendo realised that their brand does not depend on power like the other 2.