I'm mostly worried in the case of something coming in months time, but anything closer to a year bothers me less. The OLED is easy to justify for me because it means I can upgrade my sister into my Mariko Switch.
How soon would you be willing to buy the next switch model/potential successor upon release?
With the OLED, battery life is similar to Mariko, and you're mostly paying for the screen and 2x as much storage (64 vs 32GB).
Could you settle with Mariko and share that with your sister and wait 6 months for Drake?
But if you want a switch or your own still while having the successor at the same time
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.
Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.
The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.
Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.
Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.
Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
Not sure what to comment really on about the 6GB RAM, but what setup and bus bandwidth did Apple run for their phones again? Probably the same as that.
12GB doesn't mean we'll get it on the final product, as dev kits have higher RAM than the final product. Doesn't rule it out though.
I guess it is a mystery on 6GB referring to being usable RAM for games (2 for OS) but I'm not over thinking this.
My only question for you Polygon is that.. Is this person that you got the info from an actual game developer working on current gen hardware?
But the dev kit has 16GB based on the previous information, not 12GB.
From Polygon's first sources? hmm. Unless there are multiple dev kits...
And if the previous was already being compared to the Pro and One X in terms of perf (docked) for it to be clocked higher and now being seen as “wow truly next gen!” Seems so odd to me.
PS4 Pro and One X performance is already next gen as hell coming from the switch. Hell, One X has superior GPU perf be the series S.
This sounds like a newer than 8nm mode... Like TSMC 5nm node and closer to 3-4 TFLOPs in docked (basically 1 to 1.3Ghz GPU speed). That raw GPU power + DLSS would indeed be insane. Theoretically would be close to One X and Series S. If devs don't have a problem with the CPU, something like 8 core 1.5 GHz CPU maybe? That would put it 2.33x power gap between current gen CPU ( closer than the 3.5x ish between switch and PS5/X series).. And since the CPU of Series X/S and PS5 haven't been used yet fully durle to cross gen, I can see why I guess.
If true, I assume Drake is surely on 6 or 5nm at this point.
The only thing that sounds weird for me is the "6gb to 12gb" especially this recently. First, 6gb seems like a very low amount then doubling the RAM this "late" seems weird. But may be the person made an error and said 6gb rather than 8gb? If that's the case, my doubts are kind of resolved.
I'm thinking that if true, Nintendo wanted to test how much more RAM would be beneficial to games on Drake. Notably Switch games and last gen ports. This would be 2x as much RAM for games available vs Switch, which is pretty significant. Whether they actually thought at one point 6GB would be enough in the end game, is another matter altogether and I wont bother.