shikamaru317 said: If this is true, Nintendo has actually surpassed my expectations for once, by giving it more RAM than Series S (which will help with porting) and by giving it reasonably fast storage (UFS 3.1 is a pretty huge upgrade over the internal storage in Switch 1, I think Switch 1 storage was like 160 MB/s, UFS 3.1 is 2100 MB/s in reads and 1200 MB/s in writes I believe). |
Yep, seems plausible they looked at the Series S and said "OK well this is the baseline for this generation of games, we'll go with that and add 2GB on top to give some room to stretch". Seems very reasonable, probably overkill for Nintendo's own games if anything.
UFS 3.1 is a monstrous upgrade over the Switch 1 and PS4 era systems too and fast enough to handle anything from the PS5/XSX, as you said 2100MB/sec read speed versus 160MB/sec is night and day.