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Soundwave on 06 May 2025
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bonzobanana said:
sc94597 said:

This is not confirmed yet. The only thing confirmed is that Samsung is the manufacturer, meaning it isn't a TSMC fab. It could be Sammy 8nm or 5nm. People have good arguments for both of them. 

Dare I say it but Nintendo are pretty cheap and re-designing the ampere architecture for 5Nm surely would be quite expensive and time consuming. It was designed for TSMC 7Nm or Samsung 8Nm. Surely the whole point of DLSS upscaling is they can go cheap with the fabrication process as the console relies on upscaling to perform well. The fact that cyberpunk is rendering as low as 360p before upscaling means 8Nm is a perfectly satisfactory fabrication process. However I'll admit 5W per hour is quite low for portable mode. I'm so used to new Nintendo console launches having lots of forum posts about the consoles being a lot more powerful than they actually are. I remember the wii u had all sorts of claims for its GPU performance but in the end it was about 176 Gflops if I remember rightly and had to be based on its fabrication process and power consumption. However for a long time people were claiming figures like 700 Gflops and then 352 Gflops etc. Often with Nintendo the lowest spec wins the day. The Switch 2 can still manage incredible games thanks to its DLSS upscaling.

Maybe the mid-gen Switch 2 update will have a 5Nm fabrication process and a OLED screen etc and maybe boost battery life by 50-100% but normally Nintendo goes pretty cheap on launch hardware as they try to recoup development costs as quickly as possible. I'll be surprised (and impressed) if Nintendo has coughed up for a 5Nm re-design for the launch model. I think Nintendo always want the option of lowering pricing if the launch doesn't go as well as hoped. I suspect the margin on the hardware is excellent except perhaps in the US market now. The price in Japan is around $330 I think or less than 300 pounds if you are a UK citizen like me. The Japanese price would indicate a cheaper spec even if launching elsewhere at a much higher price because they think that is what the market will bear. 

People need to stop with the "normally Nintendo would ..." shit. 

This isn't Nintendo of 20 or even 10 years ago. New people are running the hardware division. The marketing is pushing 4K and 120 FPS of all things, the system is called Switch 2. It's not cheap. Nothing the "normally Nintendo would" crowd has said has basically come true. Almost everything about this system is different than that crowd expected. The Japanese yen is super low, that's why Nintendo can get away with a low price there, it's more expensive for every other market. 

Also Final Fantasy VII Remake SERIES confirmed for Switch 2, that will be Rebirth from the PS5 and the third installment most likely too from PS5. LOL, put that in your pipe and SMOKE it for the people who said even FF7 Remake Integrade wouldn't be possible on a Switch 2, LMAO. 

And also it looks way better than the PS4 and PS4 Pro versions, get that shit outta here.