A month ahead of Switch 2's global release, we accidentally bought a real motherboard of Switch 2! We decided to reverse-engineer its NVIDIA SoC, and reveal the spces of its CPU and GPU, even head to a FIB-SEM to ensure its process node! We'd also simulate the performance on a similar PC to see how powerful is Switch 2. Stay tuned!

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[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 35 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

A bit of topic, but it pains me to see how powerful high end phones got. Like most people just use them to text and scroll social media. Why do people spend that much money?!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

theres also isnt much difference, so the higher end , aka flagship ones are slightly better than the previous editions. no need to spend 800-1k+, i bought a OPR12 instead. pixels tries to justify thier flagship prices with thier useless AI chips.

[–] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.

[–] tobz619@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

If anything, it makes me wonder why we don't have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren't phones or pseudocomputers and don't cost a bomb.

Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Because we already have phones.

The solution is to release games for phones that require a controller, but most companies aren't willing to be the first ones to do it.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm probably part of the problem. I've never used a controller except a few times at friends' houses. I grew up with Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, and smartphone games. I don't want to ever have to pick up a controller.

[–] 7arakun@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.

A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Or just use a phone that's a couple years old

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Why do people spend that much money?!

Conditioning. They have more money so they spend it proportionally.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Who doesn't want to spend £50+ a month to doom scroll...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, I pay like $15/month to doom scroll.