Digital Foundry: Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2

[Kynes]

Pemalite said:

Kynes said:

At what price, with what battery life, thickness, and fan noise? If it's so simple, why don't other manufacturers do it?

The answer is that there is no market for what you are asking for, no market at the price and with the limitations it would have.

If these are your argument points... Then no one would buy a Switch 2 over a Switch 1 OLED.

1) Switch OLED is smaller and more portable.
2) Switch OLED has same thickness.
3) Switch OLED has better battery life.
4) Switch OLED has a better display.
5) Switch OLED is cheaper.
6) Switch OLED has cheaper games.
7) Switch OLED has more games.

It's about the entire package... And let's be honest. Nintendo hardware doesn't sell due to just the hardware, it sells because of the games.

The Rog Ally X and Steamdeck are amazing pieces of hardware, but they appeal to a certain demographic just like the Switch 2 appeals to a certain demographic.
There is no wrong purchase with any of these, gamers are going to gravitate towards their own preferences and what provides them with the dopamine hit.

That's not what we were talking about. Switch 2 has a very noticeable performance improvement over Switch. We already have many people complaining about the price of the console, what I was pointing out is that if a manufacturer developed a console with the specifications necessary to address his complaints, we would end up with a much higher price and larger dimensions, with a much shorter battery life.

The price of nodes at TSMC have skyrocketed with each node reduction, especially with multi deep ultraviolet layer nodes, which means that the hardware would skyrocket in price if you increased the performance to that of a Series S in a physical format the size of Switch 2.

In any design, you have limitations in terms of price, dimensions, cooling, power consumption... and Nintendo has chosen the option they feel most comfortable with among all the ones they had, including the compatibility advantages of continuing with Nvidia. No one can beat the limitations imposed by physics.