They may not have been bottlenecks between moving data between the chips and processing performance but there was serious bottlenecks from a wider perspective. The limited capacity storage discs, the 24MB of main memory and 3MB video. 24bit colour instead of the 32bit of xbox and ps2, 2 channel sound instead of the 5.1 of xbox and ps2. As someone who owned all three xbox, ps2 and gamecube of that generation it was not uncommon to find the Gamecube version cut down mainly due to limited storage. Often would be fast loading though compared to ps2 but then when the game started it was clear things were missing. Got the worst versions of multi-format games. Still not knocking it, loved the console with some brilliant games. 

The mini-discs were a misstep, but in terms of its silicon guts, GCN was a superb piece of engineering. You got high performance at a small size and a low price, and it wasn't a pain in the arse to develop for like PS2 was.

Hell, one of its launch titles, Rogue Squadron II, ended up being one of the gen's best looking games, that alone speaks volumes of GCN's engineering.

Unfortunately, many phones are opting to remove the privilege of removable batteries. Baffles me how people are perfectly fine with it. 

Impossible to tell with the naked human eye at such densities with such images.

Yep. 4GB Ram.

Funny how that works. It is using a mobile SoC.

More to battery capacity than just physical size.
Different chemistry's have different power densities.

Lithium-ion Phosphate (Life4po) for instance is cheap, heavy, but lower density than your typical LiPo.

It's Maxwell or Pascal, with a greater chance of it being Maxwell it seems. - That hasn't really changed since we discovered that the Switch was going to be Tegra powered.

They sure do. Samsung has 16Gb chips. As there is 8 bits in a byte... That makes 2GB.
There is also 64Gb LPDDR4X chips as well, which is 8GB.

4266mhz.

I think Ram capacity is the least contentious issue about the Switch.

TSMC's 16nm Finfet is based upon 20nm.

Yup.

I think you are getting a little carried away.

DDR3 chips typically have a 16-bit memory bus for each chip. LPDDR4 has a 32bit bus for each chip. Thus it's impossible for it's bus width to be any larger than 64bit. Sorry to burst the bubble on that one.

Ergo, you are not going to have 68GB/s, 51.2GB/s or 200GB/s.

It will be 20-25GB/s which is standard for Tegra. - nVidia rely's on Delta colour compression to eek more usable bandwidth out of the limited resources it has.

Agreed. The Gamecube was built like a brick shithouse.

But to compare it to the Playstation 4 is like comparing apples to oranges, completely different performance and power levels.

Agreed. It was well balanced. I would have preffered a more standardised GPU with proper shader support, but that is nit-picking.

Didn't the Foxconn leaker also state that he thought the screen was 1080P? Why should the Foxconn leak hold any weight?

The Xbox could easily best the Gamecube when it was programmed it's way. Games that pushed pixel shading really set the Xbox ahead of the Gamecube.

Although the Gamecube *could* technically do everything the original Xbox could, it did require more trickery to achieve it, regardless. The proof is in the pudding, ignoring asthetics/art, the Xbox had technically superior games.

Exactly. nVidia holds it's cards (Pun intended) very near it's chest.
It was also likely the reason why Sony never combined the Cell and the nVidia GPU into a single chip, nVidia retained I.P control.

Yup. You either open it up. Or live with it.

Lithium battery's have a finite lifespan, exceed the amount of cycles on the battery... And it's dead.

The 3DS battery only needed 2 screws..................

I am a firm believer that the only time a feature should be removed is if you are replacing it with a better one, or improving the current one.

The only time I find a phone acceptable in removing the ability to remove the batterys is if they counter that with waterproofing.
Sure you can have a degree of water resistance even with a removable battery... It will never be as superior as a fully sealed unit from the outset.

I feel like I should clarify that I'm also not a fan of non-user replacable batteries. I was just pleasantly surprised at this one since it looks pretty easy to replace. While it might not be ideal, it is better than soldered and glued in batteries. And while there might be phones out there that still offer easy battery replacability, the flagship smartphones by Samsung and Apple are all a major headache to take apart and perforn any kind of repair on. I don't think I've seen a single tablet with user replacable batterys out there, but they might exist.

In the context of a market landscape where the standart certainly isn't user replacable batteries, with many devices not even being easy to open up without breaking them, this was nice to see. I'm not totally fine with it it, but in light of the fact that Nintendo didn't offer easily user replaceable batteries on any of their devies since the original gameboy advance, I'm honestly a bit baffled to see it expected now.

I can totally understand being hesitant of opening a 300+$ device on your own. And by the time your battery is likely to loose significant capacity your warranty will have run out as well, so sending it in to Nindendo or a third party service will probably cost you a pretty penny. No. I'm not ok with that either.

If you have ever build your own rig, replaced a battery in your 3ds before or did any sort of thing with electronics this will be no problem for you though and even if you didn't, with a sufficient tutorial you could probably do it without any kind of prior experience of that kind.

Yeah............?

I really don't see the diffrence beween 1 or 10 screws. If you're hesitant to open up you device in the first place even a single screw is going to be a deterrant. If you aren't then ten screws is just going to take you slightly longer.

The real problem are propietary or uncommonly used screws like the triwing screws imo. I really couldn't tell by the pictures what kind of screws the Switch uses, but standart phillips like the 3ds would be nice.

For the user replaceable batteries, see above. I'm not a fan of non user replaceable either, but was pleasantly surprised by Nintendos implementation in light of the direction the market is moving in.

Yeah fully programmable pixel/vertex shaders like the Xbox would have been even better, but Gamecube was still able to produce some really stunning results when programmed its way, as we saw in games like Rogue Squadron 2 & 3, Resident Evil 4, etc.

You won't get me arguing with that. It was a jaw dropping game with silky smooth incredible visuals. I was using a Panasonic AE100 projector and it had massive iimpact. I don't even like Star Wars that much but loved that game. 

First time I saw that game running on a TV at a game store, I couldn't believe it was a video game, it looked like a movie to my 12-year-old eyes.

I bought that game at launch date, and I completely agree with this. Graphically speaking, playing Rogue Squadron for the first time was my most memorable moment ever. Metroid Prime was also quite an impression.

Yeah the only other games that were as big of a "wow" moment for me as Rogue 2 were Gears of War in 2006 and Mario 64 in 1996. In all three cases, I didn't think games could look like that until I saw them running, and they blew my mind.