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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I'm not sure there will be a bigger difference this time around between handheld and docked mode than what was present with the current console, but it will depend a lot of the resolution of the screen. If it stays at 720p or maybe 800p, then my guess is that Nintendo will use the extra power in docked mode for rendering at higher resolution and DLSS, with maybe a few extra effects... tho I doubt the console will be powerful enough for RT.

Weight and size, well, Nintendo has been doing handhelds for decades. They know a thing or two about what's comfortable or not, and they usually get it right.

The power demands going from 720P to say... 1080P or 1440P just isn't warranted for a gaming handheld device, not on those small displays.

I think RT is more than doable, AMD has sort of tarnished RT on consoles, but the Switch successor isn't likely to be plagued by those same limitations, especially with nVidia's generational lead in A.I/Upscaling/RT.

I see kids usually having Switch Lite's over the other models, mostly because they are cheap... And they are a very lite device at 275g. Pun intended.

I fully agree that you don't need more than a 720p or 800p screen on a machine that size, but I wanted to state the obvious given that both that the ROG Ally and Legion Go have higher resolutions, 1080p and 1600p respectively.

RT may be used for shadows and "small" things like that, imho. Any form of RT have an impact in performance, and given that the machine won't be all that powerful, I hope devs don't focus on RT at the cost of constant frames and overall quality.

BasilZero said:

My current gaming PC has a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD


Next PC will need at least 1 TB SSD and 2 TB HDD.

Funnily enough, I also have the same setup with in current PC but, given that games are begging bigger and bigger and that some are starting to demand SSDs even in its minimum requirements, I'd opt for a 2TB SSD for games.

With that said, I know you play a lot of "old" games, so it shouldn't be a big problem for you.