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[Brucey]

There's been far lower if we want to be clever . I mean the Wii was hardly a graphical powerhouse or the mobile tech of the Switch

Nintendo is never a graphical powerhouse. It's a place to play first party Nintendo games. Every generation there's hope that it will be powerful enough to play 3rd party multiplatforms but that usually ends in disappointment. Nintendo simply don't use "power" as a selling point.

That''s far different from the Xbox approach, 12tflops, 4k, most powerful console ever etc.

Cloud is already very powerful and used in lots of stuff without us knowing no doubt.

Looking forward to seeing what the Asobo studio can do with the tech for their next Flight sim

We've heard magical cloud claims in the past from Xbox, Xbox one has three times it's own power in the cloud etc making it four times as powerful as it otherwise would be etc.

 

[Mephisto40]

Nintendo is never a graphical powerhouse. It's a place to play first party Nintendo games. Every generation there's hope that it will be powerful enough to play 3rd party multiplatforms but that usually ends in disappointment. Nintendo simply don't use "power" as a selling point.

That''s far different from the Xbox approach, 12tflops, 4k, most powerful console ever etc.

We've heard magical cloud claims in the past from Xbox, Xbox one has three times it's own power in the cloud etc making it four times as powerful as it otherwise would be etc.

It's genuinely hilarious they thought this marketing jargon would give them an edge over the competition

 

[tkscz]

How about giving us a Surface Pro with an AMD APU and calling it a day?

 

[baphomet]

How they have Game Pass and cloud plus 10s of billions being thrown around to still be years away from a handheld or a hybrid console like docking a Nintendo Switch is beyond me. A perfect marriage of hardware, perhaps going an open store and market segment offering.

Again make it great, part of the existing Xbox ecosystem, open it wide to other stores/emulators and loss lead the fuck out of it with some real power and quality hardware. Combine Elite controller updates, Switch-like capabilities, Series S and X type models for price vs performance points. Honestly you could write the brief with Chat GPT and be under way in a year or two to market. Does my head in.

Because the best you could possibly get in a handheld right now is far less powerful than a Series S.

We're multiple years away from that being any sort of reality.

 

[Brucey]

Because the best you could possibly get in a handheld right now is far less powerful than a Series S.

We're multiple years away from that being any sort of reality.

Rog Ally is probably similar but saddled with Windows so can't quite keep up

 

[DavidGzz]

They already have some you can buy today. Even saw a white OLED version. Steam jokingly calls it a Deck, but we all know it's an Xbox.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Nintendo is never a graphical powerhouse. It's a place to play first party Nintendo games. Every generation there's hope that it will be powerful enough to play 3rd party multiplatforms but that usually ends in disappointment. Nintendo simply don't use "power" as a selling point.

That''s far different from the Xbox approach, 12tflops, 4k, most powerful console ever etc.

We've heard magical cloud claims in the past from Xbox, Xbox one has three times it's own power in the cloud etc making it four times as powerful as it otherwise would be etc.

Nintendo was a graphical powerhouse once and did use the tagline of

The Fastest Most Powerful Games Console On Earth

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That's to look over the point that there are plenty of weaker consoles than the Series S to benchmark a generation.



And all corps are guilty of hyping their products and coming out with bullshit PR. I seem to remember SONY saying how the PS3 was so powerful it could handle dual 1080P outputs and run games at 120 FPS, nice one Ken...


The simple fact is almost all corps are making use of cloud tech like most of the modern world. Game graphics wise I was very impressed with what the Asobo were able to achieve with Flight Sim on the consoles since it was such a beast on the PC. Very much looking forward to seeing what the team do with their new Flight Sim

 

[Physiognomonics]

I don't think they will release anymore traditional consoles, that's a sinking ship

Maybe. But they still have people buying their product and services there. Have they not? I don't see them not releasing a next xbox home console.

Also this will be a MS store handheld. This is the only way for MS to get back. They need to realize their most dangerous competitor is Steam, not Sony and not Nintendo !

 

[jufonuk]

So I take it the rumours look to be true and this handheld will be a companion to the next Xbox console in a few years time LOL

It kinects to the new Xbox?

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Nintendo is never a graphical powerhouse. It's a place to play first party Nintendo games. Every generation there's hope that it will be powerful enough to play 3rd party multiplatforms but that usually ends in disappointment. Nintendo simply don't use "power" as a selling point.

The NES-GameCube would all beg to differ.

 

[Team Andromeda]

It kinects to the new Xbox?

Only when being sarcastic

I

 

[FireFly]

Rog Ally is probably similar but saddled with Windows so can't quite keep up

The issue is the power budget/memory bandwidth, not the theoretical specs. The bandwidth could be addressed, but at 15W-20W, I doubt you could get a handheld device much faster than the S in 2027.

 

[baphomet]

Rog Ally is probably similar but saddled with Windows so can't quite keep up

Not even remotely close.