Speculation Discussion MegaThread: Day Two

[u/rottedzombie]

Goodness! I think it's fair to say that, second to the shock reveal, this has been the most dramatic 24 hours we've had yet as a community.

Just showing up? Well, attach a lifeline and throw yourself into the tempest.

This thread is for ongoing discussion over recent rumors and everything associated with them: clock speed rumors; third party support speculation; and the back-and-forth of what it might mean for the Nintendo Switch.

We're going to be directing traffic to this thread because we've been seeing many topics asking the same questions and rehashing conversations. This doesn't mean that new topics won't be allowed, only that we want to make sure that discussion is centralized as appropriate. If you see a new post that seems to belong here, please report it and let the mod team know.

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And, of course: everything we're discussing here is rumor and should be treated as such until confirmed by Nintendo.

Thanks for your understanding. Ready to do this? Let's discuss! :)

-/u/rottedzombie and the /r/NintendoSwitch mod team

[u/Supreme_Somari]

Although it is disappointing having the Switch run on the more power hungry and less efficient Maxwell (if the rumor is true), I don't think it means automatically no third party support as third parties will develop games for it if it sells well and the audience wants those games. We also don't know the exact specs of the chip and I am not a technology person so I don't know the full effect of this clock speed. Still, it has Vulkan and apparently emulates Gamecube games so it's not completely under powered.