Biggerboat1 said:
sc94597, after spending time with the hardware and having a good level of insight into what choices Nintendo had available to them when designing the console, what would you rate the S2 out of 10? |
For 2025, I'd give it a 7 out of 10. In the upper-midrange for handhelds in terms of performance and great build quality for its price.
Nintendo could've probably gone with a Lovelace chipset for not much more money if they intended to release this year from the start. That would've been +30% the performance and put it in Series S territory (although I am unsure how they'd resolve the memory bandwidth bottleneck without a $500 price-tag.) If they did that, that would probably put it at about 9 out of 10, making it roughly comparable to the Z2E/HX370 systems that are releasing currently.
For 2023/2024 (when it probably was originally planned to release) it would also get a 9 out of 10, since it is basically on par with the Z1E Rog Ally.
Add a point to all of this if Nintendo implements a plug-in handheld TDP mode, fixes HDR and fixes VRR on external displays.
OLED would be unrealistic if VRR is a goal.
Last edited by sc94597 - on 18 June 2025
