Yea it will certainly be interesting to see how it turns out. Nintendo could also increase the battery capacity and increase the tdp by making it slightly more bulkier if they need to. The switch has a 4300sh Mah battery while phones these days that are smaller and slimmer than it has over 6000 Mah. So there are certainly things they can do to make it more powerful. It could increase the price but the Switch was also "expensive" when it originally launched.

But hopefully they make the right moves at the end as the Switch 2 really could be revolutionary.

I'm very disappointed in blizzard! Let's keep the celebration of boobs going!

Glory kills absolutely kill Doom 2016 for me. It makes the game tense in a bad way and makes battles play out in such a formulaic way. I might be fine with glory kills if they were extra, but the game is obviously designed so that players have to use them. That's not to say there aren't any other issues with the game, but glory kills are the worst. In a way, they're also an embodiment of the game's over-the-top nature that goes far beyond that of the original Doom games, which I personally dislike as well.

(I guess I don't mind venting off about the 2016 Doom game, huh.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes the glory kill system. To me it felt wrong to charge into my enemy, blast them, strafe backwards, shoot and then lunge forward again to finish them off.

Also having seen some top tier DE plays on Youtube, it makes me reluctant to bother with DE, because again, I dislike that system just to stay alive.

Chinese websites are testing and breaking NDAs for Steam Deck which is giving us some interesting insights as to how it will perform. And with the power of google... We can translate these websites!

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ali213.net%2Fnews%2Fhtml%2F2021-9%2F625257_5.html

I will post some tidbits that I found interesting but remember that this is translated and they are testing the Dev kit which is hard to tell what the difference between it and the release versions are so there could be more improvements or differences.

Shadow of Tomb Raider:

- Built in Benchmark
- First of all, we set the picture to the preset high quality in the image setting options. Through the benchmark test, we got an average number of frames of 36 frames
- Then after we lowered the image quality a bit, and then reduced the image quality a little bit, we can see that the frame rate performance in the game test has risen to more than 60 frames.

Doom:

- In the game, we set the game quality to medium in the advanced mode.
- In the medium quality, we can see that the number of frames of the game basically fluctuates around 60 frames.

Cyberpunk 2077:

- After about three hours of playing, the power of SteamDeck dropped from 100% to 46%. Agency did not explain the difference between these developer versions and the final version, but it is still being optimized.
- We set the picture quality in the game to be high. We can obviously feel the freeze, and the number of frames fluctuates between 20 and 30 frames, but "Cyberpunk 2077" The picture quality is very comfortable.
- At this time, after a long period of games, the back of the game is indeed a little hot, but thanks to the area of ​​the handheld and the setting of the air outlet, the temperature of the entire machine is within an acceptable range.
- Through the thermometer, we can see that the temperature on the back of the back is around 42.6°C, while the temperature at the grip is around 29°C.

Other notes:

- The Steam Deck is indeed very heavy. The weight of 669g is approximately equal to two NSs, but its size is not small, but its weight is shared. After using it for a day, I don’t even feel much tired

I wouldn't even bother with 2077 on Steam Deck. The game still runs like arse for me with my 1080ti at 1440p, and I'm not even running close to ultra (not even native res as I've had to bump it down).

That being said, I don't think China gives a rats arse about NDA's or copyright laws, so I'm not surprised they are spreading this.

I do think the most interesting portion is Cyberpunk in their review because of the battery life. If they actually managed to get 3+ hours while playing Cyberpunk at high settings... That's insane! It bodes really well for other games that aren't nearly as heavy.

Nah. Improvements were big between Maxwell to Pascal in terms of performance gains.

On the CPU side you went from...
A57 Quad-core @1.9Ghz.
A53 Quad-core @1.3Ghz.

To:
Denver2 Dual Core @2.0Ghz
A57 Quad-Core @ 2.0Ghz.

However Tegra Maxwell only had the A57 Quad-Core unit enabled...

Tegra Pascal you would run the super high-performant Denver cores... But the design also required the use of at-least a single A57 "Core0" core for I/O and interrupt, plus some other tasks.

Denver2+One ARM A57 generally provided twice the throughput in benchmarks compared to a quad-A57 cluster.

Obviously Carmel makes them both out to be a joke... But we are talking about available chips on the Switch's release.

On the GPU side of the equation...

Maxwell @ 1ghz
vs
Pascal at 1.5Ghz.

Same power envelope... 20nm vs 16nm.
Remember, TSMC's 16nm process is basically 20nm but with Finfet... Pascal from the very outset was designed to push 50% higher clockrates at the same TDP as Maxwell.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/6

So even when both are on 16nm, Tegra Pascal will have a clockspeed advantage at the same TDP... As that was nVidia's original design philosophy with that GPU design, increase clocks, keep the same amount of functional units and features.

Conversely... Tegra Pascal brings forth improved delta colour compression, so it has more usable bandwidth available... But also allows for more than twice the memory bandwidth as Tegra Maxwell. (25.6GB/s vs 59.7GB/s)

And memory bandwidth is one of the biggest hindrances of the Switch from being able to achieve more than 720P in most titles, especially when allot of heavy use of Alpha effects are being thrown around.

So I am probably actually being a little conservative at stating a 50% performance improvement.

The Denver cores were based upon the A72, and not very good ones. In fact, due to the way scheduling works on them, having them working concurrent to the A57 could actually cost performance. Because the Denver doesn't want to share what's in his memory, the A57 might have to calculate the whole thing all over again to get the results in the Denver cache if he needs them too. This might actually be the reason why Nintendo opted for the X1 instead.

Oh, and while the GPU is more powerful, it's not 50% more. While the TX2 at Max-Q settings has about the same performance as a TX1, at Max-P, that only increases to a 20-40% performance lead over the TX1 while consuming a similar amount of power.

Either way, this discussion is a bit pointless, as the original X2 will certainly not be used in the Switch going forward, and even some future chip based on the X2 might be changed internally. 

Just like Tegra X1, you wouldn't run Denver in conjunction with A57... Except for the IO/Interrupt core... Running multiple CPU clusters is just to much of a power hog, which is why the Switch is only running A57 rather than A57+A53.

Without a doubt that, Denver2 is far better than A57 in terms of IPC.

Once you start taking the improved bandwidth into account, the GPU will definitely be able to breathe, especially in fillrate heavy scenarios.
The Switch is bandwidth limited.

I am probably being conservative by stating "50%" when there is more than a 100% gain in real-world bandwidth.

The point of Pascal though is that, nVidia re-architected the GPU to operate at higher clockrates with minimal impact on power usage... We saw it on the PC with the move from Maxwell to Pascal.