The Problem with "Switch 2" pricing

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Chrkeller said:

Soundwave said:

You've done no research on this issue though. Have you looked at the specs of the Tegra T239? You're just saying that on the basis of "Nintendo history", but you don't even know Nintendo's history that well either because if they operated the way you say they do, like the DS for example would be a rudimentary 3D system like the Atari Jaguar, not on par with the Playstation 1 at all when in fact it's better than the PS1 in many ways. 

We are both guessing.  You don't have insider information.  So just let it be. 

Side note, did the Pro that was definitely coming launch yet?

Tegra T239 isn't a guess, it's in Nvidia's firmware leaks. 

Yes, the "Pro" Switch did launch. It's called the Switch OLED. There are no chipset improvements because Nvidia I would guess doesn't just give away free chip upgrades, they treat it as basically an entirely new chip and it cost a lot to do that. That's not for just Nintendo either, if you look at the Tegra X1 or Tegra Parker chips there isn't like a "custom version of Tegra X1 with totally different specs made for client XYZ", like for example there is a VR headset that uses the Tegra Parker ... but it's the stock, regular Parker, Nvidia doesn't give custom versions of the chip out (as in like "hey lets double the GPU cores for this client or add a different CPU). They did a die shrink on the Tegra X1 for the Switch Lite/Mariko models but that's just a die shrink not really a hardware improvement otherwise and that's all Nintendo could get from Nvidia. 

I think if Nintendo could have they would've done a DSi XL or New 3DS type hardware refresh on the OLED model, but Nvidia doesn't work that way so they settled basically just to have the OLED display and doubled the onboard flash storage.