Knowing nin they prob went with the lower k1(nvidia tablet) but modified to have an extra gig of ram lol.but we know nin is cheap so i bet its the same x1 thats in the nvidia tv

NVDIA TEGRA WHAT!? what tegra is it, time to talk specifics nintendo, it releases in less than a month.

Apparently it wasn't important enough to wait for Pascal architecture which would have put it at the same level as a PS4/X1.

https://arstechnica.com/gam...

http://www.anandtech.com/sh...

A couple interesting articles about the NVidia Tegra chip used in the Switch. It can get a TFLOP out of it, if you care about that.

"Finally, let’s talk about clockspeeds and expected performance. While NVIDIA is not officially publishing the GPU clockspeeds for the X1, based on their performance figures it’s easy to figure out. With NVIDIA’s quoted (and promoted) 1 TFLOPs FP16 performance figure for the X1, the clockspeed works out to a full 1GHz for the GPU (1GHz * 2 FP 16 * 2 FMA * 256 = 1 TFLOPs)."

shouldn't their top priority have been to keep up with the times as far as console specs go?

You think it's X1 or something proprietary for the Switch?

lol.. it was a top priority because they've(Nvidia) already got a switch on the market(the shield), and rebranding it and adding nintendo-esque controllers was simple and cheap. The custom bits of the nintendo are solely for the controllers, docking, and carts.

How many people here actually understand what makes a console powerful. Leave the tech specs to the game designers, leave the gaming to me.

"Nvidia's key role in realizing PC gaming graphics".

Translation: "We were able to bully nvidia into agreeing to our YoY hardware margins as we see fit because AMD's been shitting on them in the console space for the past two generations.

Please understand. LUL"

I personally am glad Nintendo is using Nvidia Tegra Processor technology inside of the Nintendo Switch. Sorry to inform the Ps4 and Xbox fanboys and fangirls but I and a lot of other people don't want to forgo enjoying life to only enjoy gaming by being glued to our TV's/Monitors. My only gripe with Nintendo at the moment is that they need to kill off the Nintendo 3DS and devote all of their efforts into the Nintendo Switch!

their top priority should have been improving their relations to the 3rd parties... more than three decades and they still haven't got the clue why their early successes were happening.

THIS LOOKS LIKE ITS GOING TO BE A LOAD OF DOG POOOOOOO

They might as well have used an APU.

They want to provide a new way to play through unique controls (joy cons), AND be a hybrid system, AND keep the cost down. All this has meant the computing guts are very dated.
It's a jack of all trades approach. Personally, I'd have preferred them to go all out handheld, providing a bleeding edge mobile chip, which could play ALL games, not just Nintendo games. I'd rather they put their budget into that than detachable, mini controllers and a dock. The handheld could still have had the ability to connect to a TV and play with a pro controller, plus it would have had the power to play modern games from ALL developers at 1080p. They could have held out for tegra X2.

Instead, it's an awkward mess again from Nintendo in my book, trying to do too much, without doing anything well.

A top priority to do what? The switch is more expensive than the consoles we have now and the consoles have better performance. Again top priority for what?

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau