and they wonder why movie theater attendance keeps declining...........

Surely such improved designs could make the later Switch's not compatible with all Switch software. Have we given up all hope that Switch games will try to maximise  performance of the hardware. I thought with all the talk of Nvidia's new software and development tools we may get something close to low level access but if you are correct there will always be middleware in between translating instructions for the actual hardware. This will also be a minefield for testing game compatibility. 

I suspect we may get 3 to 4 years of the current performance level before we get a big jump in a revised Switch design like the 'new 3DS'. Yes there may be minor improvements but it may be only Pascal is capable of running Switch software, the next chip revision will lose that compatibility. Saying that I'm not sure Switch could survive commercially for 3 to 4 years at its current performance level but wii managed to survive with very low performance for many years so I guess its possible.

Sorry, I play and enjoy my games not stare at still images of them.  If I want to start at still art, I'll go to a museum, not play a video game.  By the same token, if I want to watch something instead of play it, I'll go to the movies.  I have yet to play Breath of the Wild and think to myself, goddman this game is blurry. 

Yeah, I'll bet they didn't do it due to cost reasons. I was keeping expectations low and would have been very surprised if they actually went with the X2 since I was more thinking customized X1, then it turns out that it wasn't customized at all lol. I'm at least not upset since Maxwell and Pascal are not too drastically different other than power consumption and a little heat production difference. Video recording(maybe streaming) is also possible in the future since the chip wasn't modified so it can do H.264 and H.265 720p-1080p 60FPS easy with Shadowplay quality from Nvidia's side. We'll see what the future firmware update will bring to us down the line.

The Xavier is more for Audi self driving cars ATM, I'm thinking they'll have something like a X3  variant somewhere down the line though, but noway will that be in a Switch+ or something, I'd be surprised if they do that.

Do you live in Sydney or something? that's some crazy prices on the food.

Nah. Regional South Australia. Capital Cities are generally cheaper as they can get more customers through their doors.

Price doesn't bother me though to be honest. I still go for all the big Marvel movies.

A Pascal based Tegra could have provided an extra 50% more performance at roughly the same power level though.

Plus it has improved Delta Colour compression, so you can eek more out of the limiting 25.6GB/s of bandwidth.

yeah the 128bit bus would have helped too to double the bandwith, wonder what the cost of the x2 chip is vs the x1, I'm not an insider on mobile chips and would really like to know lol.

With Heterogeneous multi-processing, the Switch can use the 4 LITTLE cores along side the big ones.
Migrating the OS to use these cores when in game is possible.
The potential for a Switch refresh next year makes me very exited for Nintendo's future.

No.

Tegra X2 has more transistors. But it's built at a smaller node. I would assume over the longer term the Tegra X2 would be cheaper to manufacture.

I too would be keen to see actual numbers though.