Leynos said:
Soundwave said:
I would say in on-screen game performance the Switch 2 performs like a $600 portable device or better (like a ROG Ally, definitely better than the $550 Steam Deck) from what we have already seen, likely we will get examples of game performance possibly better than that as time goes on, docked I would say it's actually better than a ROG Ally. I don't see anything on the market that gets that performance at $450 in that form factor.
To get tangibly better performance than a Switch 2 in that kind of a form factor right now you probably have to go spend like $800+ and accept a chunkier, bulkier device. I'm not even sure $800 would do it, you might have to go up to the $1000 XBox branded ROG Ally X and the Switch 2 can even hold its own against that.
For Joe/Jane Average buying a Switch 2, they should feel very happy with the hardware they're getting for that price, you're getting to play games anywhere you want at a level of performance that would cost you significantly more elsewhere and that certainly hasn't been the case for Nintendo hardware for a while (Switch 1 could kind of pull it off, but Switch 2 is already showing itself to be far better at running next-gen games). And for the size of the Switch 2 ... those portable PCs would need likely several die shrinks to match that size/thinness that Nintendo/Nvidia were able to get that performance from 8nm.
It is a custom chip, the x-ray of the chip showed it to be very different from the Tegra T234.
A GPD Win 5 is $1500-$2000 device, and requires the battery to be external (so like a fat brick sitting outside the machine), good for the 5 people in the world who will own one, you might as well get a gaming laptop if you're going to spend in that price range, that thing is pointless. For $2000 it still doesn't even have an OLED display either.
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Please. Shut up. This is beyond off topic. Not even sure why a mod has fed into this for so long.
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lol, talk to your fellow mod then, I'm only responding to points they are bringing up that they feel needs to be discussed apparently.
This forum has like 15 regular posters, it's not like it's rife with discussion to begin with, but discussion of Switch 2's hardware philosophy is actually relevant to the topic Switch 2 is a different hardware philosophy from other Nintendo system's like the Wii, which is a totally different hardware philosophy.
