I really hope they don't go this route, Sony would lose their identity if they copied Nintendo.

won't happen, period.

by the time it could be technically feasible, the PS5 would probably be old news. Why would anyone bother with a "portable" ps4 at that point?

Well that's another argument but I'm glad you recognise the graphical prowess of ratchet and clank. The way he said he thanks God Nintendo exists. You'd swear all Sony games look the same. Sony have better diversity then Nintendo and Microsoft in terms of games. 

Saying this as someone who'd take Zelda and Fable over anything Sony has to offer, I completely agree on that one - they are quite dedicated to bringing all sort of diverse experiences on their platform.

I'd even go as far as to say that they have the most faith in their 1st/2nd party output, given that they are quite comfortable with idea of making powerful enough console that can support all 3rd parties with no additional...let's say "gimmicks"...to have massive success.

In Nintendos defence they also put huge faith in first party. They allow their teams to try many experiments, many failed but many succeeded. It's really just Microsoft who have shown little faith in their software teams. 

We all agree Switch is more powerful than 7th gen consoles, its still WAY BELOW the capabilities of X1. In practice I'd say its closer to 7th gen and that was his point as well.

We've seen it does a good job improving 7th gen games, we've been reminded Nintendo games are very well optimized, but it really struggles to run a game like Doom at a stable 30 fps, with much lower graphics settings, even at sub-HD.

Fifa indeed looks better on Switch. But this is an example of how it does a good job improving 7th gen games.

Meanwhile a more technically demanding game like LA Noire has dips, lowered graphics settings, and uses a dynamic resolution. Unless there have been some updates its arguably worse on Switch than PS3.

I'm sure Dark Souls on Switch will be a big improvement if its simply better optimized. Lets not pretend Dark Souls was a technical achievement for last gen.

So the Switch being compared to 7th gen is fair. And its also about 11-12 years apart...

He also compared 3DS to PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. But we know the 3DS has far less GPU capabilities and even at a much lower resolution. However, its closer to them than PS1/Saturn/N64.

Here's a thought. If they aimed for $399 with Switch it could probably be a lot closer to 8th gen consoles in capabilities. Those consoles are from 2013, so they're kind of old now.

From my understanding the GPU in Switch is already dated.

Flops is irrelevant.

No.

Indeed.
I mean... Ryzen is good. But not that Good.
And Polaris/Vega is rubbish as far as efficiency is concerned unless you start pushing lower clocks/voltages, but then you compromise performance.

nVidia has a sizable advantage.

Fabrication process is only part of the story. Those "nodes" are more or less just advertising fluff these days and aren't an accurate depiction of the geometry sizes that chips are being fabricated at.

With that... Modern GPU's are vastly more efficient than the old, slow, archaic GPU's in the Xbox One and Playstation 4, things like Delta Colour Compression, better Culling and so on has ensured that.

No.

TDP doesn't equal power consumption. - Anandtech pegged the Switch at less than 20w of power consumption.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11181/a-look-at-nintendo-switch-power-consumption/2

A chip with less flops can beat a chip with more flops, making all of your statements and comparisons... Completely and utterly useless, nonsensical and ultimately a waste of my time to read.

The 2700u is bandwidth starved, The GPU is easily far more efficient... But when you hold it back with dual-channel DDR4 memory @ 2400mhz, it's not going to be setting any records on fire.

I was hoping AMD might bring back Sideport or introduce a chunky eDRAM-like cache.

Citation needed.

Something to keep in mind is that TDP is rated differently between different manufacturers too.

So a 50w AMD TDP could equate to a 25w Intel TDP and so on as one manufacturer might rate theirs for the max TDP, whilst another will use an average-TDP approach. (As chips these days have varying clocks/voltages and thus power consumption.)

Lower the clocks and voltages. It's not hard, Tegra X1 was pushed out as a 15w TDP part... It's definitely not that in the Switch.
Check the Anandtech link I provided earlier, you might be surprised by the power consumption numbers being thrown out.

The Switch is also capable of far more effects than the 7th gen consoles.
It's also far more efficient.

It's a step down from the Xbox One, for sure. But it's also a step up from the Xbox 360.

The games that are available now aren't exactly shining the Switch in the best light... The console is not even a year old at this point.
I mean, Xbox One games looked and performed like shit during that consoles first year on the market. (Well. They still do.)
Give it some time before you pass judgement, you might just be surprised at what a low powered Maxwell based chip can do, it's always going to be the ugly console of this console era though... But a portable 7th gen it is not.

Nah i dont think so

Most likely - on paper it has the juice - but than again, my bet would be it's with fully clocked GPU @25W, not at handheld TDP levels.

I always tend to go with iPad numbers running games when it comes to portable devices - 9-10W at most. Switch running BotW is 8.9W, so about that range. I guess handheld could be made that consumes 20W in similar situation, which would give it better performance, but I'm not so sure it's viable business desicion.