OK, I'm not real sure about a lot of what you guys are talking about right now (such as who's Emily, the relevance of Nvidia or AMD, or what a/the SCD is), but somehow this is still serving to get me even more excited for the NX and Nintendo's future.

This is not really new technology. The use of external GPUs (eGPUs) was previously possible through the now ancient expresscard interface and now thunderbolt 3 (as shown in this video). In fact, many Nvidia cards and even previous AMD/ATI cards have been used in eGPU configurations. My primary concerns with this rumor is the cost of implementing thunderbolt (although I guess Nintendo and whoever is providing their chips could create a proprietary PCI-E passthrough), power consumption and overall feasibility issues (with the assumption that a portable NX is about the same size as a 3DS XL).

It would actually be all kinds of awesome if NX was a modular console, that would allow you to easily pull out its piece (containing the GPU) and substituting it with a more powerful one, thus making the console better. Lets say they update the GPU twice in a generation, leaving the rest as it was - would be a great way to futureproof their console and keep costs reasonable. I like it.

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I have missed those then, do you have any links?

Emily has crapped the bed too many times to be considered reliable in my opinion.

Could I get a link please :3 Youtube videos aren't showing up for me so I need a direct link to Youtube. Still haven't been able to deal with a fix yet.

Was it this? I found this one. Not sure anything about where this guys credibility stands.



Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5XL3yZHXPU

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=203747904

Emily hasn't "crapped the bed" since after the Wii U launched. She's been right about pretty much everything for like 3 years. People need to get over that.

alienware made this some time ago.

Its not working wireless.

And that is the only rumor I have read. Where are the other two you were talking about?

The first leak (5/14/16) was by SemiAccurate, and it was only with regards to the handheld. (I'm linking the gaf thread because the article is behind a pay wall)

The second (also 5/14/16) was by TweakTown, and it was only with regards to the console.

Emily's confirmation of Nvidia was on 5/16/16, a whole two days later. Before that, she made this post on 5/13/16, where all she would concretely disclaim was that the NX wasn't using x86 architecture or Polaris. Nothing even remotely hinting not using AMD yet. All she added in the new post via NateDrake was verification of her sources and that "Nvidia is involved with Nintendo's future hardware." Which is the rumor that combines the two prior ones, because they were at first independant of one another.

So in chronalogy:

5/13/16 - Emily Posts NX blog claiming no x86/Polaris.

5/14/16 - SemiAccurate leaks Nvidia for NX handheld. (1)

5/14/16 - After SemiAccurate, TweakTown leaks Nvidia for the console, name dropping Tegra and Pascal. (2)

5/16/16 - Two days later, Emily contacts NateDrake, a known and verified industry insider, to both verify her sources and offer a third confirmation of the NX Nvidia rumor. (3)