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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pr_V8rtzrE

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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[-] tobz619@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

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

[-] 7arakun@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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.

[-] tobz619@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I'm taking a look at the RP5 it looks quite good. I wish its GameCube Performance was better but this might be the one for me :D

If it can also play Steam games/x86 games, that would also be cracked

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

You can buy handhelds for like $100 that have basically every console game up to and including ps2/ds preloaded. What else would you need?

[-] tobz619@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Something that can play PS2/GameCube games effortlessly

Maybe even a bit of PS3!

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-4-handheld

Can play gamecube/wii games and most ps2. Ps3 you're gonna have problems with even with a steamdeck sometimes.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I got an S23 for $400, upgraded from a 7 year old S9

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'd say go on swappa and pick up an S21 for 125 and be ready to go....leave the S23 for doom scrollin.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Why downgrade?

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?

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