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Soundwave on 11 February 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo just has to hope another pandemic comes along right when they're releasing the next Animal Crossing. 

Fact is linear hardware upgrades have been hard for Nintendo, even SNES from NES was more of a pain in the ass than they bargained for I think, in the US a lot of people did the whole "well Super Mario World doesn't look much better than Mario 3" for a while and then they got into an unexpected mud fight with Sega which seemed dead to rights just a couple of years earlier. 

For a linear hardware upgrade to work (when you don't have a Wii or DS touch monopoly miracle) you basically have to upgrade the hardware very well. 

Because otherwise people will just go "wait ... what's so great about this? I already have a Switch". No hardware manufacturer in the history of this business has been able to do a linear hardware upgrade that was a mediocre hardware upgrade unless they had some miracle control gimmick. 

Which frankly I don't think Nintendo has. Switch 2 is just going to be a Switch 1 with a graphics upgrade. As such, the graphics upgrade has to be pretty substantial, it can't be half assed. 

T239 8nm is not half assed upgrade. it's gonna be a big substantial upgrade  to what we have on the switch, not to mention SSD and DLSS the jump will be bigger then ps4 to ps5. console players will be playing on hardware that's been more powerful then switch 2 for 4 years by the time it comes out. So what makes you think that graphics are gonna be why people buy switch 2 it's makes no sense, it's gonna be the games and a t239 will look amazing in handheld but even then switch 2 won't be coming with oled screen if Nintendo really wanted to impress people that should have one at launch but they are nickle and dimers when it come to hardware.

T239 at 8nm has problems other than what it would be as an upgrade. 

It's a shit ton of graphics cores and a chip that's massive for no good reason. 

If Nintendo was interested in cost, they could have the same performance as that from 8SMs on 8nm and still be clocked very low, 12SMs is getting into comedy levels, you're getting a chip that you're basically getting very little use out of. 

Again it's like saying "well OK I'll go to the movies with you but I'm on a budget so I have to spend carefully". And then spending $5 extra to buy jumbo popcorn when you know you're only going to eat maybe 10% of that, why do that when a regular pop corn is cheaper and then the cookie on top of this is "well we did that to save money", like OK, this makes sense on what level exactly?