How will be Switch 2 performance wise?

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Biggerboat1 said:

sc94597 said:

Oh I know. Wasn't meaning to compare total energy capacity between the two, but charge capacity is more directly correlated with the surface area of the battery than energy and we don't know the voltages of the Switch 2 to compare on a energy basis anyway. We don't even know the size and target TGP of the Switch 2 (only rumors on those.) So charge capacity (correlating with the size of mobile devices increasing) is all we can compare on right now. 

Edit: NatetheHate has suggested the Switch 2 will have an 8inch screen size, which is why I was comparing to the Steam Deck. It's probably going to be bigger than the Switch OLED (although probably not as big as the Steam Deck.) 

I guess we're hoping for a S2 big enough that it can fit in a large enough battery and adequate cooling to drive the chipset at decent frequencies, but not big enough so that it can accommodate the gpu at 8nm haha.

I guess a larger switch would potentially also render all current joycons useless, not sure how that'd go down with fans...

Well, given that a 550Mhz (peak efficiency for Orin on 8nm with 12SM) would consume something like 7.5W (double what the original Switch did in handheld mode) the battery would have to be about double the capacity to get a similar life-span when considering cooling has to run faster too, if it were on 8nm. 5nm just makes more sense. 

Never thought joy-con forward compatibility (beyond using them in docked mode or for Switch games) was a thing people expected. Nintendo always changes their primary controllers with each new platform. But there isn't a reason they couldn't use some sort of adapter or have the joycons fit a larger Switch. I'd expect it to be more an increase in width than thickness. That fits the modded joycons people tend to use. 

Last edited by sc94597 - on 19 November 2023