Soundwave said:
To be honest at this stage, a AMD 'vanilla' Nintendo console would just be kinda boring anyway.
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From an end-user perspective, it wouldn't really be any different.
Soundwave said:
The industry doesn't need more of the same, especially if its going to be something in between a PS4 and PS4 Neo just with Mario games, that would just sell to the same group of 10-15 million people still willing to buy a Nintendo home console and no one else.
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I agree. Console manufacturers need to differentiate themselves, but they also need to do so without alienating 3rd party publishers/developers, then everyone can have their cake and eat it too.
Nintendo should compete on power. - Just because they opt for slower hardware, it doesn't make them different or more unique, it can actually do more harm than good by holding back progress with games/game engines and loosing a ton of games that would have otherwise made it onto the device.
There is a balancing act that is needed.
With that said, I thought the Xbox One and Playstation 4's hardware was horrible when those platforms launched, anything less will not bode well with me.
Alby_da_Wolf said:
A really differend thing could be AMD finally entering the ARM market full steam with competitive k12+Polaris based APUs and SoCs, and on a wider range than currently expected. NVidia and Intel can make really powerful stuff, but they often end up being too expensive for mainstream products, they were for MS, let alone Ninty, that wants to become profitable on HW asap, possibly from launch, and rarely waives this unwritten rule, and only if forced to (for example when it had to heavily cut 3DS price a few months after launch).
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AMD doesn't really have the resources for a full ARM push at the moment, not with Zen and Vega being their main focus with their limited resources.
Plus they are also re-organizing the entire company, seperating it's Graphics and CPU departments.
Besides, ARM is a very congested market now... Especially with Chinese chip makers entering into the fray with the likes of Rockchip, Allwinner, MediaTek, HiSilicon, Spreadtrum and more.
Can't forget Qualcom, Samsung and the hundreds of other ARM Licensee's... And it makes you wonder if a company like AMD should be bothered entering the market?
Let's not forget either that ARM chips are low-profit, low-cost compared to x86.
Plus AMD needs to refine Graphics Core Next to go ultra mobile and have Tegra-levels of performance and power consumption, that's at-least 3+ years away as there are various technology's AMD would need to implement which requires massive changes to the chips architecture, nVidia successfully did this a few years ago.
AMD would be in a better position if it simply licensed out it's graphics technology to an ARM chip company and work with them, they already spun off their ultra-mobile, Radeon derived "Adreno" tech/company to Qualcom once before.