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0 pointsderstander1y ago0 comments

> Nvidia got the bid for Switch when they were basically dumping those unwanted Tegra to Nintendo for an incredibly low price.

This seems pretty well aligned with Gunpei Yokoi’s strategy of “Lateral Thinking [with] Withered Technology”. It worked out pretty well for Nintendo in the past (e.g., Gameboy) and seems to be working out with the Switch. Even though he has passed, his Wikipedia page alleges that this philosophy has been passed on to others at Nintendo.

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lynguist1y ago

> Withered technology

At the time of its release the Nintendo Switch’s CPU was only a single generation behind the latest offering by ARM; and its GPU was by far the most powerful mobile GPU available. It doesn’t hold true for Switch.

What happened is that mobile compute has advanced tremendously since 2017 and Switch is stuck on technology that was leading in early 2017.

pjmlp1y ago

While providing marvelous gaming experiences, faster polygons doesn't equate better games, and is specially an issue in latest gen PlayStation and XBox where many games with great graphics have lousy gameplay experience at high prices.

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