Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12557 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
>>>> Nintendo´s upcoming NX "game console" is said to use ARM chips.
>>> Patents issued for that "console" make it look more like a handheld device.
>> A handheld game console, then :-)
> Seem inevitable, doesn't it? Why have a bulky console when everything can be
> packaged in a much smaller device?
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Nintendo Switch is a hybrid device; the Switch console is a tablet-like portable console, which can be inserted into a docking station attached to a television to use it as a home console. Despite this characteristic, Nintendo still markets the Switch as primarily being a home console rather than a portable. [...] Nintendo Switch is designed as a hybrid device which can operate as both a handheld video game console and a home video game console [...]. Although it is a hybrid device, a Nintendo spokesperson stated that Switch was "a home gaming system first and foremost""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch...and, with regard to the title of this thread:
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Nintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor."
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/