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I'm a spec guy as much as anyone, currently have a 4090. But I'm happy with the S2 specs. Nintendo games don't require high end and it was as much as one could reasonably expect from Nintendo. I'm expecting a 2050 ish performance which will be great for Kart 9, Metroid, Mario and zelda.



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zeldaring said:
sc94597 said:

I don't see why it matters that it is using an Ampere-Lovelace hybrid chip if it is going to perform roughly on par with other mid-ranged gaming handhelds at the point in which it releases.  Especially if it has a process-node shrink (either to TSMC N7 or N5 from Sammy 8LPP.) 

Orin chips themselves were announced in 2019 and weren't commercially available until last year. 

If there were a gaming handheld with a full Lovelace or Blackwell GPU releasing in the near-future you'd have a point, but there isn't.  

So basically it is a distinction without a difference.

It depends how you look at it because within a year this will likely be very dated hardware for handheld device feel like like this should have come out in  late 2023 or early 2024. in late 2025 it's not even much better then the steam deck. 

I think something like a 2050 or better, is atleast twice as fast as a Steamdeck.  Am I way off?
So when docked, it should still beat out a steamdeck.

Also its likely it launches early 2025, like Q1 early.  Maybe March?



zeldaring said:

I think the point is for the people that actually care about power been expecting to see the switch pro with these specs years ago, no one in their  right mind expected 10-12 teraflop console in 2018-2019 and people were actually very happy about the specs of ps5 and series x when revealed. we been hearing rumors of a pro with a T239 and expecting in late 2022, it was basically all but confirmed by sources.

Let's not pretend you were expecting a T239 system in late 2022 when last year in 2023 you were posting stuff like this. 

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9450071

zeldaring said:
Leynos said:

 There are several versions of Orin. No it won't be using the Orin 12 CPU core 32GB of ram but likely would use anything in the 8core 8-16GB of ram range. We know the T239 exists and nothing uses it currently.

I doubt they go with nvda again. Nintendo only went with nvda cause Nintendo got a mind blowing deal on the switch chip set cause they were basically useless for nvda .  I honestly don't see Nintendo going with anything cutting edge cause they never do.



sc94597 said:
zeldaring said:

It depends how you look at it because within a year this will likely be very dated hardware for handheld device feel like like this should have come out in  late 2023 or early 2024. in late 2025 it's not even much better then the steam deck. 

Again, if it is roughly comparably performant to the average gaming handheld device upon its release, it isn't "very dated." 

The fact that a Steam Deck 2 might come out to outperform it in 2026, doesn't change that. Every single piece of computer hardware released has been outdated a year from its release date. 

When the PS5/Series X released they were comparable to a mid-end gaming computer. The fact that the RTX 3090 released more than a month earlier doesn't make them "very outdated." Consoles are mid-ranged platforms of their form-factor at the date in which they release. Always have been since the invention of dedicated GPU's, always will be. 

I think comparing console to PC and applying it to switch is pointless. PC is a massive market and handheld gaming is niche aside from a Nintendo handheld. To build a PC with ps5/series specs in 2020 would have cost you 1000$ so for the price point it's the best you can get, mean while were getting switch 2 with what the specs we expected from the pro version years ago and ps6 will be coming 2 years after just seems dated to me if you don't share that opinion its fine we can agree to disagree.



sc94597 said:
zeldaring said:

I think the point is for the people that actually care about power been expecting to see the switch pro with these specs years ago, no one in their  right mind expected 10-12 teraflop console in 2018-2019 and people were actually very happy about the specs of ps5 and series x when revealed. we been hearing rumors of a pro with a T239 and expecting in late 2022, it was basically all but confirmed by sources.

Let's not pretend you were expecting a T239 system in late 2022 when last year in 2023 you were posting stuff like this. 

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9450071

zeldaring said:

I doubt they go with nvda again. Nintendo only went with nvda cause Nintendo got a mind blowing deal on the switch chip set cause they were basically useless for nvda .  I honestly don't see Nintendo going with anything cutting edge cause they never do.

My prediction was right though a t239 in 2023 would have been cutting edge and they did not release it and now it's mid 2025 lol. Ill say this is ps6 released with ps5 slightly better specs in 2029 it would get shat on by sony fans.

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zeldaring said:

My prediction was right though a t239 in 2023 would have been cutting edge and they did not release it and now it's mid 2025 lol. 

So when you wrote that you were expecting the Switch 2 to release in 2023? And the date in which we all expected it to release wasn't late 2022 like you were saying in this thread? From the reading of your post you weren't expecting them to go with Nvidia at all when you wrote that less than a year ago. 



sc94597 said:
zeldaring said:

My prediction was right though a t239 in 2023 would have been cutting edge and they did not release it and now it's mid 2025 lol. 

So when you wrote that you were expecting the Switch 2 to release in 2023? And the date in which we all expected it to release wasn't late 2022 like you were saying in this thread? From the reading of your post you weren't expecting them to go with Nvidia at all when you wrote that less than a year ago. 

I wasn't expecting for them to go NVDA if they were going cutting edge. Because i been hearing rumors for switch pro for so long and was the traveling the world when i came back to the states i expected to see a pro version when i saw there was no pro version i became negative on nintendo and expected nintendo do what they do best give us the worst case scenario for hardware every time, and with a T239 in 2025 they delivered again. look lets just say ps6 has slightly better specs then ps5 pro in 2028, sony fans would burn it  alive, So me saying it's seems very dated is more then fair.

Last edited by zeldaring - on 12 May 2024

zeldaring said:
sc94597 said:

Again, if it is roughly comparably performant to the average gaming handheld device upon its release, it isn't "very dated." 

The fact that a Steam Deck 2 might come out to outperform it in 2026, doesn't change that. Every single piece of computer hardware released has been outdated a year from its release date. 

When the PS5/Series X released they were comparable to a mid-end gaming computer. The fact that the RTX 3090 released more than a month earlier doesn't make them "very outdated." Consoles are mid-ranged platforms of their form-factor at the date in which they release. Always have been since the invention of dedicated GPU's, always will be. 

I think comparing console to PC and applying it to switch is pointless. PC is a massive market and handheld gaming is niche aside from a Nintendo handheld. To build a PC with ps5/series specs in 2020 would have cost you 1000$ so for the price point it's the best you can get, mean while were getting switch 2 with what the specs we expected from the pro version years ago and ps6 will be coming 2 years after just seems dated to me if you don't share that opinion its fine we can agree to disagree.

This is absurd. These specs are overall better than the Steam Deck and you think Nintendo could've released a device that capable a few years ago? Come on now.



Norion said:
zeldaring said:

I think comparing console to PC and applying it to switch is pointless. PC is a massive market and handheld gaming is niche aside from a Nintendo handheld. To build a PC with ps5/series specs in 2020 would have cost you 1000$ so for the price point it's the best you can get, mean while were getting switch 2 with what the specs we expected from the pro version years ago and ps6 will be coming 2 years after just seems dated to me if you don't share that opinion its fine we can agree to disagree.

This is absurd. These specs are overall better than the Steam Deck and you think Nintendo could've released a device that capable a few years ago? Come on now.

What you talking about? the switch pro was leaked 2 years ago and rumored to come out in  mid 2023 with similar specs.



zeldaring said:
sc94597 said:

So when you wrote that you were expecting the Switch 2 to release in 2023? And the date in which we all expected it to release wasn't late 2022 like you were saying in this thread? From the reading of your post you weren't expecting them to go with Nvidia at all when you wrote that less than a year ago. 

I wasn't expecting for them to go NVDA if they were going cutting edge. Because i been hearing rumors for switch pro for so long and was the traveling the world when i came back to the states i expected to see a pro version when i saw there was no pro version i became negative on nintendo and expected nintendo do what they do best give us the worst case scenario for hardware every time, and with a T239 in 2025 they delivered again. look lets just say ps6 has slightly better specs then ps5 pro in 2028, sony fans would burn it  alive, So me saying it's seems very dated is more then fair.

Do you honestly believe Nintendo releasing a mid-tier performance-wise handheld in 2025 is the worst case scenario

What alternative hardware do you think they should've gone with? Basically the only thing better than what the Switch 2 is projected to have, in handhelds -- when it releases, would be a higher-end Strix Point APU and handhelds with those will cost about $700-$1500. We don't know when Tegra Thor is releasing. Some-time in 2025, but probably too late for them to have enough chips for a Switch 2 release. 

So honestly, what alternative hardware makes sense for Nintendo to have gone with? What is the best case scenario, in your eyes, while retaining the same form-factor? 

As for the PS6 hypothetical. If the PS5 Pro were hypothesized to have an RX 8800 XT level GPU and then they just released it as a PS6 a few years later, improving the chipset by reducing the process node and adding some more modern features from RDNA 5, I don't think anybody would be disappointed with the PS6. In 2027 (that would be three years after PS5 Pro's projected release), an RX 8800XT comparable chipset would likely be similar to mid-range GPU of that year, which is what most people expect of console hardware.