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Developers and Analysts Sound Off: Does the Next-Gen Nintendo Switch Need to Happen in 2024? (nordic.ign.com)
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Very unlikely. Nintendo is going for the mass market and the bulk, power draw and cost of handheld PCs makes them unsuited for that. Nintendo has never been very successful going after the high-end market. They'll no doubt use something like an upgraded Tegra again.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nintendo has never been very successful going after the high-end market.

    This is 100% correct and worth emphasizing, since I think a lot of people don't understand Nintendo's history with this.

    They tried to aim for a more premium console with the N64 and the Gamecube, and the result was Sony ate their lunch. Then they came out with the Wii -- widely derided for being underpowered and gimmicky -- and it was a hugely popular financial success. Nintendo knows by now what works for them and what doesn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    They tried to aim for a more premium console with the N64 and the Gamecube, and the result was Sony ate their lunch.

    To be fair, they shot themselves in the foot by not using CD-ROM and regular DVDs respectively. The Nintendo 64 was a very anticipated piece of hardware, but they took too long to release it and then many companies jumped ship due to said lack of CD-ROM, how long they took and cheaper licensing too most likely.

    They never actually competed on equal terms thanks to Yamauchi's stubbornness.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The upgraded mobile chip they use will likely be as powerful as our current Steam Decks but with better power draw, since they're mobile architectures and not x64. That said, you couldn't pay me to buy another Nintendo console at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    There is no indication of such a chip existing or even being possible currently. The Tegra revision rumored to be in the Switch 2 is a good deal less powerful than a Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah. Rumored computational power, claimed to be coming from development units, puts it at a healthy fraction of the Steam Deck's when docked, but a much smaller one when undocked. So, people shouldn't get their hopes up about a Steam Deck+ coming from Nintendo.

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