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The T239 design was "taped out" in 2021, they could have released it in 2022, 2023 or even last year.
But the commercial success of Switch 1 meant they sat on it.
They should have had two target hardware designs in play, one for a sooner release and one more primed for a later release that could take advantage of more recent technology.
Still it's $450 now, God knows how much more a more powerful version would cost and what it's battery life would be.
Saw a video on it, haven't read it yet.
2 CPU cores are reserved for the OS and 3gb of RAM.
It looks like it has the same OS as Switch 1, so is it gamechat that needs that much RAM?
Since that camera is optional will more resources be used by developers when gamechat is not being used?
Also there seems to be a lot of headroom in clock speeds for the CPU and GPU.
The documentation shows a theoretical max of 1.7ghz for the cpu cores, but it's only being used at around 1 ghz.
Will it be raised with further updates?
Same for the gpu which is clocked at around 1 ghz but has a theoretical max of 1.4 ghz.
One thing about Nintendo I don't like, this goes for switch 1 too, they tend to take stock or similar hardware and don't run it at its full potential. They took the X1 Nvidia Shield and downclocked it all around. I guess because of thermals and battery life.
If t239 is based on t234 they gutted out a lot of shader cores.
I hope there's a plugged in offscreen mode that runs off the chain.
Congrats!
Man, I'd love to build an uber gaming PC but those prices remind me why I'm still primarily a console gamer. Also, I get really OCD with all the graphics options and fiddle with them more than playing, lol
I don't get this 3gb RAM reserved for Gamechat. I'm not using that damn camera so would my games have access to more resources, compared to someone streaming video to someone else?
3GB for video chat? That's nuts.