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| bonzobanana said: I feel like if Nintendo have gone for a relatively cheap Samsung 8Nm fabrication process its clear they are looking to get a very good manufacturing price and if the fabrication process is a bit cheaper and slightly inferior technology then the console will create more heat and be more power hungry so to offset that lower clocks seem more logical to me so I'm expecting around 3x power boost for the Switch 2 with about 400-800 Gflops in portable mode and around 1.2-1.6 Teraflops in docked mode. Of course being later technology with clever upscaling it will punch above its weight in graphic performance. I really can't see it offering 3 Teraflops of performance in docked mode. People are always overly optimistic about Nintendo hardware performance but normally within a few months reality starts leaking out. If Nintendo keeps to lower speeds then chip yields are higher and prices are lower and Nintendo makes more profit on the hardware. Nintendo delivers great performance with standard Switch hardware and I feel with 3x the raw power or maybe 4-5x the actual power using more efficient technology is enough to feel like a huge generational leap. I'll be happy to be proved wrong though. I feel the world economy is not in a great state and we are in uncertain times so hardware that can start at a high retail price but drop hugely and still be profitable in a market downturn is probably the wisest path to take. |
It'll be a bit better than that given the leaked clock speeds but I get what you're saying.
It has been almost 25 years since the GameCube and people are still huffing the sweet spice of expecting competitive performance when it comes to new Nintendo console hardware.
They've given up on that race long, long ago and have focused on amazing gaming experiences to great success ever since.
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