We already have a good idea about which chip Nintendo will use. Yesterday nVidia announced the cheapest Orin chip, the NX. 6 core CPU, 1024 GPU cores, Ampere, 8GB LPDDR5. It's very cheap (1/4 the cost of the full Orin chip). It would be a good Steam Deck competitor, and with carefully written software exceed it. I expect that's what we will get.
Personally I just want Nintendo to grab an RTX 3060 type product and stick that in a $400 console, desktop only. It would be easy to do since no DVD drive or hard drive is required, making it even cheaper to make than the PS5 digital. Let people add their own hard drives and storage like the Switch. It would be a true hybrid, since you could play all your Switch games and all the PS5 level games. The Switch people call it a hybrid, but really all it does is play mobile level graphical games. So it is a mobile only system, very limiting. See how that works? A desktop system is actually not limiting. Sure you can't carry it around, but it can play twice as many games. A DESKTOP CAN PLAY MOBILE AND DESKTOP GAMES.
The Radeon 7870 in the PS4 was more expensive than the RTX 3060, and yet the PS4 had it, plus a lot of expensive add-ons (optical drive, hard drive, and CPU cores). RTX 3060+6 ARM cores, done. Voila. Cheap and fast desktop home console.
But if we can't have that, we'll get the Orin NX.
Last edited by Alistair - on 24 March 2022
