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It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As long as the hardware is relatively close to the target level defined by Nintendo, it really doesn’t matter if the chip was “already old”. The developers know what hardware to expect, if they want their game to run on that console, they’d be on the hook to optimize for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

In a lot of ways, it being an old known chip probably helped optimization and porting efforts.