ShadowFox08
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Several years ago Iwata stated that the home and portable Nintendo consoles won't be that much different from each other and essentially said that successor of the Wii u(Switch) will be a part of a family of devices.
What can we expect for Switch in the future? Considering that we got tech upgrades for the 3DS(new 3ds having more RAM and CPU), and this current trend of half generation steps, its almost guaranteed that there will be a switch iteration down the road, perhaps sooner than we think.. And Nvidia's tegra family of chips definitely falls in line with this.
One of the most obvious predictions have been a x2 Pascal 16nm upgrade which could potentially increase power by 50% and power efficiency by twice as much.
So is it fair to say we could get such a thing in 1-2 years, which could possibly give us a 600 GFLOPs console with nearly twice the battery life?
Or perhaps the most exciting thing to predict is when we'll get an upgrade that will be as powerful as the ps4 in GPU, with 8GB of RAM, and a similar CPU upgrade, with the same wattage, battery life usage, without getting overheated? Its also important to note that we don't need that power in handheld mode actually and could have half the power disabled to conserve battery life and overheating.
What do you guys think? 16nm seems likely in 1-2 years, and perhaps a 7nm will do it in 2019 for ps4 specs on a mobile switch iteration?
https://mynintendonews.com/2014/02/...helds-will-no-longer-be-completely-different/
What can we expect for Switch in the future? Considering that we got tech upgrades for the 3DS(new 3ds having more RAM and CPU), and this current trend of half generation steps, its almost guaranteed that there will be a switch iteration down the road, perhaps sooner than we think.. And Nvidia's tegra family of chips definitely falls in line with this.
One of the most obvious predictions have been a x2 Pascal 16nm upgrade which could potentially increase power by 50% and power efficiency by twice as much.
So is it fair to say we could get such a thing in 1-2 years, which could possibly give us a 600 GFLOPs console with nearly twice the battery life?
Or perhaps the most exciting thing to predict is when we'll get an upgrade that will be as powerful as the ps4 in GPU, with 8GB of RAM, and a similar CPU upgrade, with the same wattage, battery life usage, without getting overheated? Its also important to note that we don't need that power in handheld mode actually and could have half the power disabled to conserve battery life and overheating.
What do you guys think? 16nm seems likely in 1-2 years, and perhaps a 7nm will do it in 2019 for ps4 specs on a mobile switch iteration?
https://mynintendonews.com/2014/02/...helds-will-no-longer-be-completely-different/