Switch 2's CPU already outdated?

[Moogley]

Terminally online gamers these days literally can't go about their day without being angry at something, or whining about something. It'd be sad if it wasn't so gosh dang pathetic.

And they'll buy it anyway, because that's how they are.

So you think gaming companies are so consumer-friendly right now that the only moral thing to do is to shut up and let them cook? I mean, that's what you're saying. Meanwhile, they're taking advantage of us because people aren't allowed to complain without being insulted.

This company is now charging us for FRAMERATE. They're charging us for the MANUAL. This isn't the Nintendo worth defending and hasn't been for about 10 years. Having lower standards is perfectly fine, but it doesn't give you bragging rights.

 

[link22534]

FYI, no console has ever been sold at a loss. That is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to make gullible people believe they are getting a good deal.

No the PS3 was sold at a loss most definitely. It was used to create the condor cluster when other os was supposed. Estimations were that a similar computer would have costed 10x more than what they spent but you also have to consider that grade of hardware has less demand and comes at a premium. But even still it's been documented that the PS3 was sold at a loss earlier in its lifespan.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Bro switch 2 is reportedly only getting 2 hours playing Mario Kart. A launch title. Imagine a few years down the line with something that really pushes the hardware to maximum. Will it get literally 1 hour of battery life? It's genuinely not looking good for NS2

That's really not how it works. Because if it did, we'd not only have seen late Switch 1 games doing it, but in cases of the home consoles, we'd see their power consumption increase from later games for them. No, "pushing the hardware" is done by optimizations to get things done more efficiently that reduces the load and power consumption of the hardware to give that much more room for devs to work with.

A dev that doesn't know the hardware ends up pushing components to 100%, which then consumes a certain amount of power. After learning about the hardware, they find they could reduce the load by 50% through optimizations, and by reducing the load, it reduces the power consumption by an equivalent amount. They can then double up on the work to hit the 100% mark again and return back to the power consumption they had, but this time, they are getting double the work done.

The only way that battery life is going to drop is if Nintendo goes and increases the clocks to grant devs more power at the expense of power consumption, but that isn't going to happen because that could affect the ability to charge the system during gameplay. As it is, there is a limit to how much power can be delivered to the system, and should power consumption exceed it, then it's pretty much not going to operate as it was meant to. If Switch 2 is anything like Switch 1, then it cannot operate with a depleted or missing battery, including in docked mode.