Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

So what most people speculated?

So the NX is a hybrid after all!

I am a little bit disappointed about Nintendo choosing to use a mobile chip, but I imagine that that's the only route for them to take if it is indeed going to be a on-the-move handheld device.

It won't be in the same ballpark (as the PlayStation 4) because it's powered by Tegra, which means that some third party developers are going to feel somewhat indifferent about this when everything else is x86.

Just need to see what this thing looks like now. Quite excited.

I imagine the screen will be multitouch. I could see nx coming with miitomo preinstalled.

@WebHead As well as working with AC mobile game, FE mobile game and whatever the other Nintendo mobile games are. Pokemon GO also working with it.

Now I'm even more confused about which version of Breath of the Wild to get....

I wonder if there'll be multiple skus.

Twitter peeps be salty. Sorry nx didn't meet your unrealistic fantasies.

That's if this rumor is true, to begin with. It's not the first time we've seen a convincing leak/rumor of the NX.

@-Red- and it matches what wall Street said. Mobile unit that works with a box and independently on the go.

@WebHead So. I'm not saying to discount it. Just to approach it with some skepticism, until it's officially confirmed.

@-Red- fair enough but I trust Eurogamer who have leaked neo and Scorpio. I know iwatas statements in January 2014 but but that was long ago. Could've changed his mind.

So ARM-based in the end. Eh, whatever. I'll need to see more. That means I'll probably stick with PlayStation for third party games. I still hope it'll be more than just a Nintendo box though.

With the absence of Android taking up processing power, and the possibility of seeing the Tegra x2 in the system, the power really could come close to what the original Xbox One could do. And with some creativity on developers' parts, I'm pretty confident the visuals will be loads better than what we're seeing the current Tegra chip doing. Console developers in general have always been excellent at squeezing every last bit of juice out of their boxes.

I also don't really find the Shield comparison to be a good bar to look at. Pretty much everything running on shield was "emulated," in a way - just kind of made to work on it for the sake of working on it. Not designed from the ground up to utilize every little trick and capacity of the system.

Nice interpretation. I suspect there'll be 2 bundles. Basic set with just the tablet and deluxe set with the box and left and right control pads.

Eh. Even if this latest rumor is in line with what I believe the NX to be, I'm just going to wait for Nintendo to announce the thing (whenever that may be...).

@rallydefault
GFLOPS for GFLOPS.... it should be something close to this:

and when it gets to that point? It's good enough for most content.... but I'll be keeping my PC thanks

@skywake plus could be on tegra x2 that nvidia is making which sounds like a pascal version of x1.

They could use a dang potato chip for all I care. I just want good games.

@WebHead
Or it could go the other way. They might end up using a slightly lower powered or underclocked version of it. Because of battery/cost/heat concerns. All this rumour really says to us is that it's a portable that's more capable than the Wii U. Which in itself is pretty interesting.