Pemalite said:
Soundwave said:
The leaks (I don't even know if "leak" is the correct word since it's basically just hard data) are coming from the Vietnam based factory Nintendo brought on board to help with Switch 1 production around 2020 I believe. HVBG. |
HVBG whilst a Nintendo partner also cater to other customers.
Soundwave said:
Because components have to ship there, it's possible to get shipment/customs data, that's how people have gotten the Switch 2's internal memory type, flash storage, etc. a few months ago. |
Correct. Again, I am not disputing any of this.
But you cannot take NAND/Ram shipments and correspond those to capacities... Because you need many of those chips in a device.
And this is where the issue lays... People are taking things further than the evidence implies.
People are taking rumors and running with it.
Have you not learned anything over the decades where leading up to a launch we had over 9,000 different "leaks" some even from "credible" sources which turned out to be blatantly false? There are reasons for that... And partly that is because people interpret things incorrectly.
Soundwave said:
We're seeing a huge surge of Switch 2 components to a factory that produces/assembles Switch units beginning in August 2024. Tegra T239 SoCs went from 3000-4000/month to a nearly 50,000 unit order in August, LCD screens for the Switch 2 went from a 1100 unit order in June 2024 to 68,000 in August. And there's been more information since, lets just say this trend line is continuing. It's more that Nintendo can't control public records in this case. |
You don't know if those components are legitimately being used for the Switch 2.0.
Conversely, shipments of the T239 SoC's doesn't tell us clockspeeds, number of CPU cores, GPU cores, caches or other technical capabilities.
It just tells us, that manufacturing has begun, which is as obvious as claiming that water is wet.
We can however make very logical deductions on what is currently available in the technology space... Hence why myself and other PC-tech heads argued that the Series X/Playstation 5 would have 16GB of Ram and not 64GB or more due to the price of those commodity components. |
The bolded part is exactly right, IMHO. The switch was significantly underclocked. We really don't know what the S2 will be based on broad generic leaks, assuming the leaks are even true.
