DLSS is some magic voodoo indeed. A game running at 576p upscaled to look almost as good as 1440p! Achieveing double the framerate due to it. The only noticeable quality dip to me is the texture on her leather jacket, a bit blurrier in the 576p DLSS image, but other then that. Wow.

Twice the performance for a fairly mild dip in image quality. If it supported DLSS even the Switch we have now could be running games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 4k60fps. Crazy thought.

Everything does not point to a multi-wave lifecycle. If that's what they were going for, the overlapping smartphone model, the next "wave" would be announced if not out by now, or we'd at least have rumblings of a mid-gen revision type system just around the corner. Instead, this listing for "next generation graphics technology" at nvidia points to a normal generational successor in a few years.

Generations are good as they are, there's no need to change the formula that's worked for decades and continues to work well.

When it's not in their interests, no, not generally. They've stuck to many working formulae since the 80s, and this is one that still works perfectly and doesn't need to change.

Not necessarily. It's just a question of how you build the product.

In my opinion, the easiest way to get to that level is by having the portable only use hardware which can "produce" 40~50% of Lockhart's performance.

Aka only the hardware that is meant to be used on the go.

However, the dock itself contains a supplementary CPU/GPU/other which combined with the chip present inside the portable unit amounts to Lockhart specs.

Remember, not everything HAS to be carried around in the portable unit.

Just leave in the dock what you dont need in portable mode.

Think of it as a workplace setup. You have your notebook that you can carry around with you, when you work at your desk, you connect a mouse, keybord and

screen to it. In this case however, the mouse, keyboard and screen would be a second gpu/cpu/other.

Nothing they've said or done indicates smartphone style multiple iterative waves. If that was the plan, we would almost certainly know it by now. The fact that we're in Year 4 and the only sign of a replacement is a job listing for a "next generation" device points to them sticking to normal generational paradigm.

I guess the many rumors about a Switch Pro really indicates that Nintendo had something like that in development. However, seeing how good the original Switch and Switch Light stand on their own and that they don't have to fear much from PS5/Xbox Series X (because other market), they decided to ditch it an working instead further on a next generation Switch, i.e. Switch 2 (I still think they will not name it "2" and just add the sales numbers to the current Switch models).

Iwata talked about a family of devices. That doesn't necessarily mean ongoing waves of iterative soft successors like smartphones though, but more in line with what we already saw with 3DS/3DS XL/2DS/New 3DS. We already have the Switch Lite in keeping with this.

New 3DS wasn't a soft successor though, it was a hardware revision, similar to DSi. That's most likely what we will see with Switch; multiple revisions forming a single family but with a definitive next-gen successor in a few years time rather than iterative smartphone-type soft successors every couple of years.

The whole point of the Switch was to unify Nintendo's development onto a single platform; supporting multiple generations at once runs directly counter to the Switch's direction.

People still assuming this is anyway related to Switch. Nintendo could jump to Samsung/RDNA for all we know. Nvidia may well be taking all from softbank to combat this.