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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

that’s supposed to be at least as powerful a PS5/XBS.

I think anyone who truly believes that is huffing paint lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to believe. Will huffing paint help?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I always go by the wisdom of Airplane:
I picked the wrong day to stop huffing paint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can’t hurt! And if it does, just huff some more!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've either huffed too much paint or not enough, and since I can't huff less theres only one option left.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't it tuen out that it was literally just the same architecture? Doesn't really mean shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly, same architecture means nothing if it only draws a fraction of the power, eg from a battery and not mains. Not only that, but size and cooling constraints mean with our current tech, it's impossible to have a small handheld as powerful as current gen consoles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly the biggest barrier is nintendo's policy of making profit on hardware. Microsoft loses $100-$200 per console and the XSX still costs $500. Is nintendo really ready to charge $600 or even $700 for a console that matches what was released 3 years ago? 4 probably by launch?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest barrier is that Nvidia has shown no capability to make a CPU that isn't unconditional dogshit for gaming, and the CPU is the Switch's problem.

The only company that's made an ARM CPU remotely interesting is Apple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Alto @Fubarberry @spiderkle @BolexForSoup on the same lever as a PS5??? Dang. You had curiosity but now you have my attention

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not going to be, it's (from what I've seen) simply the same architecture. It'll probably be what's essentially a very cut down and underpowered (as in literally uses less power) version of it. Still a massive step up from the switch, which was already well outdated when it launched, but it's not going to touch PS5 performance