Nintendo reportedly showed a demo of the ‘Switch 2’ console at Gamescom which included visuals comparable to the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
Nintendo reportedly showed a demo of the ‘Switch 2’ console at Gamescom which included visuals comparable to the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
The company is understood to have held private tech demos, ahead of an expected 2024 launch…
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To use the PS5 as an example, it's based on Zen 2 and RDNA 2, both of which are now deprecated. It would not be surprising for Nintendo to match them at this point in the cycle.
3 0 ReplyYes it is surprising, it’s a high TDP desktop x86 SoC vs a low TDP mobile ARM SoC. Not close.
4 0 ReplyDid Nintendo announce that Switch 2 is ARM?
2 0 ReplyI don’t know. It’s obviously arm. They partner with Nvidia, they want backward compat, and it’s a mobile device.
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The Steam Deck uses the same architectures by the way, with different core counts and a few more differences in capabilities
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