drinkandswim said:
As the technology gap shrinks between mobile and console, who wouldnt want the ability to take their games on the go? i dont mean phone gaming, i mean handheld gaming. |
Ah, I see, well of course we see that systems like the Switch are powerful enough to allow for high quality experiances on the go. That's not really due to a shrinking technology gap, more due to diminishing returns on graphic power vs graphic quality.
You see, portable technology like smartphone chips quickly rose in power compared to old cellphones, but the latter basically used embedded chips with a much smaller power envelope, wheras companies like Qualcomm keep pushing the envelope in power, but also in power consumption (as demonstrated with the Snapdragon 8cx).
I wouldn't be surprised if a Switch folowup would use Qualcomm's tech in the future since it has become so powerful. But it has also become so powerful because they scaled the tech up.
And with transitor shrinks becoming ever more difficult and probably flatlining at 3nm. We have a few more rounds of increasing hardware efficiëncy to go from the low end to the high end products before all perf/watt improvements will come from architecture.
