Literally all of the little evidence we have suggests that whatever’s coming uses Mariko. Mariko at max speeds would have a 50%+ increase in GPU speeds, a 100% increase in CPU speeds, and a ~25% increase in memory speeds, that is not an insignificant improvement.1. you do realize its mobile tech, not desktop means you have to keep update it for it to keep up to its desktop hardware home consoles
2. hackers have tested what a switch with almost shield clock speed and it barely makes any differences and even with Mariko there not going turn up clocks any more than what hackers have done to balance the power usage where the shield doesn't need to worry about this. which is why the new shield is 25% faster
3 any next switch needs to be able to play the old games and since Nintendo has access to source code they can make a non-resource heavy way to play them
4. currently we are only getting first-party, previous-gen third-party games and only few current-gen third-party games so the current switch is already at its limit
why are people ok to buy a new phone every year but a game console needs 5-8 years lifespan? the switch is a mobile device and is on year 3 with 5-year-old hardware
Again, absolutely nothing has suggested any sort of emulator.