Recent content by Goodtwin

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any revisions that eliminated drift. If you have Joy Cons that drift, you can contact Nintendo customer support and they will likely get them repaired for free. I have some Joy Cons that have dozens of hours with no drift so far, but my first set failed...

There will probably be some sort of unique features, but because of the success, and continued success its very likely the successor will be fairly straight forward. The current CEO at Nintendo is not the creative type like Iwata was. I find it very unlikely someone who is more business...

How is density for TSMC 7nm compared to 8nm Samsung? Unlike Nvidias desktop GPU's where Ampere on 8nm was fine because power efficiency doesn't matter and die size is less relevant, I would suspect whatever they are crafting for Nintendo would target a more power efficient process. Not to...

Could be better or could be worse. So much of that depends on the node process. If its 8nm, I could see a sub 1 Tflop in portable and around 1.6-1.8 Tflop in docked. Ampere is significantly more efficient than GCN is with the Xbox One and PS4, so this Switch would get far better performance...

If the information about 12 SM's holds true from the Nvidia leak, then 8nm would be a very odd choice. It would have to be clocked very low to fit within the Switch power constraints. It would be very curious to have so much silicon running very low clock speeds rather than less cores with...

Switch 2's SOC could be on the 4N process and will use ARM CPU's, so its likely that it will be more power efficient than the Ryzen powered APU in Deck. With that said, Deck is allowed to run full tilt in portable mode and Switch 2 wouldn't be doing that due to thermal limitations and battery...

I was bullish on the idea that if Switch 2 were going to launch in 2023, it would most certainly launch next to Zelda TotK. Mostly because there is some history of success when launching with Zelda. However, both the Wii and Switch launched after poor performing consoles and the Zelda titles...

The full fat Nvidia Orin die size is 455mm2 That is a lot of die space dedicated to hardware that isnt the GPU cores or the CPU cores compared to something like the PS4 APU. I will be interested to see the die photo for the Orin NX variants when they become available, which should be very soon.

The full sized Orin chip is certainly to big but there are smaller lower power variants that would work. If you look at the Orin NX and Nano variants we could be looking at a 1024 GPU cores, 6 A78 CPU cores, 32 Tensor cores on 128bit memory bus. There have been rumors/claims that the big...

@Shifty Geezer thats not how I read it. To me this is saying that offering backwards compatibility is more accessible now that it was in the past but dont expect this to be a a top priority. Nintendo has a good track record of offering backwards compatibility on many of their consoles and...

Its not that they couldn't do it but more so I do not see Nintendo investing much into making their new hardware play old games with better results. Nintendo wants to sell you new hardware so you can purchase new games. There isnt a great deal of incentive to sell customers new hardware and...

We could see larger silicon than normal in order to improve the docked experience. Assuming Nintendo sticks with a 720p screen, the GPU clocks could be very low keeping thermals/energy consumption very low. Meanwhile in docked mode it can bump up to 700-800Mhz in to get the rendering...

What revision of Switch are you referring to? Switch units with the X1 Mariko revision get 5-6 hours of battery life, and I think that is well within expectations for consumers. I would bet most Deck users playing with settings that drain the battery in less than 3 hours, so for Switch 2 I...

Assuming all this hold true, a truly custom Orin chip should be able to free up a chunk of die space by removing all the automotive hardware. The AYA Neo units are shipping with AMD 6800U APU's, and they are 208mm2, double the size of the Tegra X1 in the Switch. I believe the original Orin...

Because of the volume at which Nintendo buys components they can source materials at a much better cost than low volume products like the Steam Deck or even the Nvidia modules. Nvidia was probably selling Tegra X1 modules back in 2017 for the same cost that Nintendo rolled out the Switch. I...