Cookie197 wrote:
Did they actually say anything on the hardware of the console? I've not seen it mentioned anywhere.
Nintendo haven't said much else at the reveal but it's been known for a while that the graphics are served up by Nvidia CUDA cores, and by all accounts not that many of them. (Specifically the Nvidia 'Tegra' chipset, probably the X2 variant.)
The Switch looks like it'll be more powerful than the Wii-U, but not by any order of magnitude, with about 33% of the CUDA cores found on a GeForce 950 (a £130 graphics card).
It also needs to be remembered that raw power doesn't tell the whole story, and it depends how 'close to the metal' the drivers can get.
It'll most likely be a capable 1080p console, underpowered compared to the PS4/XBone on the raw stats, but lest we forget that the likes of Mario Kart 8 on the Wii-U look fucking gorgeous in 720p, and are kicked around at a near-flawless 60FPS, so it's not all about horsepower.