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[Movalpolos]

Wow its real guys

 

[Cool Tools]

I'm wondering if the Tegra could benefit from extra compute power feom Nvidia's GeForce Now servers.

Nvidia could beam high end GeForce GPU power over the cloud.

Also isn't the SCD just a processing box that facilitates extra bandwidth, the same kind of bandwidth required for cloud compute power boosts?

Isn't that what MS attempted, and has so far failed to deliver on with XB1 and Crackdown?

 

[Pie and Beans]

Ah yes. A portable PS4 Pro+. Of course.

Why do you kids do this to yourselves.

 

[D.Lo]

Hang on so this would vastly increase performance when docked in a kind of 'super-dock'? But using the same portable device?

 

[ItIsOkBro]

So devs would have to target handheld, docked, and SCD? I don't think so.

 

[Inuhanyou]

RAM Pak?

Nintendo is no stranger to this.

This isn't 1997, this is 2017.

"We have exclusive games that can only be done on this hundreds of dollars of add on! Buy one today!"

 

[ffdgh]

Oh dear...Unexpected twist if this somehow happens tho I dobut it will.

 

[robotrock]

Hang on so this would vastly increase performance when docked in a kind of 'super-dock'? But using the same portable device?

It would

if it were real

 

[Ricky_R]

All this time thinking the Xbone had a secret sauce and it was the Switch all along.

 

[Ocarina_117]

So essentially Super Saiyan 2 Switch.

 

[Pocks]

Gosh, I would be all over this. As convincing as Thraktor is, I just don't see this happening. It's so Nintendon't.

 

[geordiemp]

Docking station $ 90 with nothing in it

Docking SCD $ 500

Secret sauce confirmed

LOL

 

[Various Artists]

This is close to where I would put the over under on where the NEXT Nintendo console would be power wise based off recent history.

 

[SRTtoZ]

How would 4k games fit onto their regular carts? And I feel like they would have included much more than 32gb if they planned on making games that big. This is made up.

 

[robotrock]

4k and HDR with headroom. Doubt the clocks in the SCD will be 1502 like the 1060.

loll, whats stopping the switch from HDR now? do we even know?

 

[Wishmaster92]

10 docks= 4K Nintendo games? What a dream. If only it could happen.

Same textures frame rate and everything, just the resolution increase.

 

[DirgeExtinction]

By the time this would release, If it were real, the Scorpio would be out and there'd be rumors of the next PS console.

 

[Dives]

No? Why should it only improve framerate? would be likely for 4k gaming. Not that i believe it.

It takes a lot more than a 1060 to drive 4k in 3D games. And why would Nintendo target 4k when hardly anyone owns a 4k TV at this point. It took them until 2012 to target HD.

 

[Somnid]

We really need to have moratorium on "SCD"-related talk.

 

[dano1]

Great. So now they can have two failures!!

 

[Speely]

Let's all take a step back and assume that the release Switch is all we are getting any time soon. This avoids dashed hopes and enables surprise hype if does indeed turn out to be true.

 

[rekameohs]

Ah yes. A portable PS4 Pro+. Of course.

Why do you kids do this to yourselves.

This most certainly does not mean that I believe any of this, not for a minute, but this idea would not be portable - just for docked mode.

 

[Proelite]

This reminds me of the 2nd GPU rumours for the xbone.

This source is a Foxconn worker that got multiple spec details for the Switch right 1 month before reveal.

The other is misterxmedia.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Why would anyone allow themselves to believe in this.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

So many twists. It's like M. Night Shyamalan is working for Nintendo.

 

[purseowner]

SCD = Supplemental Confusing Discussion

 

[AlfonzoPalutena]

What about the secret sauce inside the current switch dock, that allows most games to run at a higher resolution?

That is just the Switch being plugged in. It can up the clock of the CPU / GPU and let the fans ramp up as well. No battery concerns

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

So how many regular Switch docks duct taped together are we talking about here?
5? 10?

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

So is this like Goten turning super saiyan but because it's Goten him being super saiyan doesn't add up much without a super saiyan Trunks fusion?

 

[BigSoftieFF]

How would 4k games fit onto their regular carts? And I feel like they would have included much more than 32gb if they planned on making games that big. This is made up.

Each hour is 1 cart.

 

[Thraktor]

I don't think there really needs to be another thread for this, but if there is there are some things I should note:

1. This is entirely contingent on the leak in question being 100% correct. We know it's correct about the Switch details, but that doesn't automatically mean it's correct about this device.
2. The fact that 2000 of these dev kits have supposedly been made, but we haven't heard even the slightest hint about it from any media outlet should be a sign to take the rumour with a healthy dose of salt.
3. If it does end up being true it's not going to be 3.5 Tflops. There's a reason I referred to the GP106 in the post, rather than the GTX 1060, and that's because anything Nintendo use would almost certainly be clocked quite a bit lower than the desktop graphics card. There's also the possibility that it's being used as a stand-in for a less powerful custom GPU. It would be a lot more powerful than anything I would have expected from Nintendo for this kind of device, but it wouldn't be a full 3.5TF GTX 1060.

To re-emphasise what I wrote in the original post this is purely speculation based on supposed leaks from a source which, although right about Switch, may be completely wrong about this device.

 

[Kacho]

Y'all gone mad

 

[Inuhanyou]

Let's all take a step back and assume that the release Switch is all we are getting any time soon. This avoids dashed hopes and enables surprise hype if does indeed turn out to be true.

Uh people are expected to buy an overpriced handheld with overpriced peripherals and an account service and then a hundreds of dollar dock add on? Yeah everybody! "hype!" Even though just 5 seconds before hypocrites were crying about how power didn't matter.

Yeah.

 

[Copper]

So like an expansion pack with the N64?

 

[KingBroly]

So essentially Super Saiyan 2 Switch.

Ascended Super Saiyan, since it can't move as easily.

 

[Risette]

How would 4k games fit onto their regular carts? And I feel like they would have included much more than 32gb if they planned on making games that big. This is made up.

i mean this is made up but lol it would just run the same games at a higher res

"4K games" is a weird categorization

 

[hoserx]

So how many regular Switch docks duct taped together are we talking about here?
5? 10?

the switch dock has zero processing ability..... so, there's no answer to your question.

 

[Kimawolf]

By the time this would release, If it were real, the Scorpio would be out and there'd be rumors of the next PS console.

which is why they would do it. I imagine Nintendo is fully embracing the Apple/android models of forward compatible/itenitative hardware. so why not put out powerful, hardware right as the others prepare,to launch as well? i bet we will see new "switches "every two to three years. not as fast as phones, but not as slow as traditional consoles.

 

[Air]

It's interesting. Not sure if I buy it, sounds like it'd be a mess for Nintendo's marketing, but the possibility is there.

 

[Speely]

Each hour is 1 cart.

Everything was clouds... Once Nintendo rolls out paid online, it comes with basically NintendOnLive.

/s

 

[oxidax]

Yea im not getting into that rabbit hole. I want to believe, tho.

Guys, lets just do this Switch thing as is and see what happens.

 

[Pie and Beans]

This most certainly does not mean that I believe any of this, not for a minute, but this idea would not be portable - just for docked mode.

The idea of Nintendo desperately PR'ing the Switch as a console now only to turn around a year or so later with an actual console sold separately would be some Nintendo ass... ohhhh. They finally stepped up to Sega's challenge.

 

[SRTtoZ]

Where can I pre-order?

 

[nomis]

The only GTX1060 any of us are going to be playing BotW on is on CEMU

 

[III-V]

Basically we could keep the same handheld unit and Switch docks when it's time to upgrade. Sounds good

 

[DMONKUMA]

"Now you're playing with power"

 

[ryan299]

Doesn't usb c allow for external gpu's like Razer and Asus have?

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

now you're playing with power

 

[Hoje0308]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifQm3IZ1tc

 

[Proelite]

Basically we could keep the same handheld unit and Switch docks when it's time to upgrade. Sounds good

Or keep the same SCD dock and Switch handheld unit when it's time to upgrade.

Release new SCD and Switch on non-overlapping 4 year cycles ala World Cup and Eurocup.