Rumors continue to swirl about Nintendo’s next-generation hybrid platform, which is likely still months away from being unveiled, and this time the overall picture doesn’t seem to be entirely positive.

Moore’s Law Is Dead and The Phawks discussed the yet-to-be officially named successor to the Nintendo Switch on the latest Broken Silicon podcast. According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Nvidia wanted the Japanese company’s console to be able to achieve 4 TFLOPS of computing power when docked, and to do so it could have a higher than expected clock speed. For comparison, the PlayStation 4 has 1.843 TFLOPS, and the PlayStation 4 Pro is not far behind (4.2 TFLOPS), but the Xbox One X is in another category (6 TFLOPS).

In handheld mode, however, the next console from Big N could have a “crazy low” clock speed. It could even be below 800 MHz. It’s not just better battery usage, as The Phawks say it generates less heat and the fans don’t spin as much, and since it’s a console aimed at kids (like the Switch), those are important factors. The two say that ray tracing will mainly be present in games developed internally by Nintendo, as the Japanese company combines the best visuals with acceptable performance. Meanwhile, third-party titles will rely more on rasterization and Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology.

The last time we wrote about the new Nintendo console, the Chinese manufacturer Mobapad (which leaked a lot of stuff…) recently said that it will be a conservative hardware evolution, which is understandable since it won’t be too powerful, but in return it won’t have overheating problems, won’t be too big and the price won’t be too high, so the big N may have found a good compromise on a platform that will be launched either in late 2024 or early 2025.

We think we can expect it in early 2025, as the Switch was released in March 2017.

Source: WCCFTech