Since its open, Android lets you do whatever if someone is willing to code for it. So, yes.
DF: Switch Mobile Mode Analysed in Unprecedented Detail + Video-Out Mod Details!
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That's not really cheaper, though. Is like saying that the Switch is only $50 if you bought it on credit.
The catch being that you are stuck with the carrier, though.
remember that the entire Tegra line was made for the mobile market (until recently, anyway). and comparing it to 2018 phones, the Tegra X1 is mid-range. current crop of high-end SoCs have definitely surpassed it. on the gpu front, it's harder to discern but the die shrink and power consumption has allowed it to match the older arch and ineffective 20nm process. again, on the high end scale. CPU-wise, it was hot back in 2014, but it's woefully outdated now. context-switching has been phased out for heterogeneous processing, which the switch could use to it's favor (freeing up more CPU power for games)
Yeah, Outlast is pretty self contained, but whatever. I don't have to engage with this kind of hostility.
Go ahead and make it 10 years, then. I'll be waiting the list that has games matching the quality and budget of the games I mentioned.
That said, any avid mobile gamer knows full well than plenty of older games aren't updated anymore, and no longer playable on modern firmwares. Some are playable, but will most likely crash sooner than later. Its basically lottery at this point. Not to mention, most of them don't even support controllers to begin with.
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You're right, I was thinking commercial mobile products. X1 didn't release in one of those until the very end of 2015 (Pixel C) but it did release in Shield TV mid 2015.
SE is $349.99 retail now though for a 32GB model. At launch it was $399.99 about a year before Switch launched and with just 16GB. And this is their lowest price phone by a huge margin, you won't see an A11 in a $300 Apple phone ever.
Nvidia never did a chip suitable for Phones, though. With the exception of a gimped version of Tegra 4, all products have targeted Tablets.
This is the current GFXBench ranking:
Yes, the Adreno 630 is leading now over the Tx1 on GPU performance. But as anandatech found out, the sustained performance of the Chip is on par with last year Adreno's 540, though...
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In my experience the current high-end SoC in phones just run hot and destroy battery life pretty fast compared to Switch, which isn't the freshest SoC on the planet but it's bearable thanks to being engineered for gaming and not being slim. Phones also are updated each year, and low end SoCs are way more common at the 250-300$ pricepoint. Looking at that and only that is like saying that a truck is better than a car because it delivers more horsepower.
And furthermore, those devices are still more than twice the price of a Switch. Comparing a Switch to an iPhone X is like comparing a PS4 with a 1080 Ti-equipped gaming PC. I suppose you could argue there's more iPhone X's in the wild than high end GPU's, but it's still not a particularly common model compared with lower priced offerings.
At this point in conversation I'm pretty sure, that any amount of high profile games I could've named would be dismissed by you as inferior to godlike BoTW or by any other imaginary reason. Also, I have nothing to say to the "everyone knows" argument.
Convenient. You know they will be dismissed because you know I'm right. They are not really comparable and it's plainly evident.
If the library would "embarrass" the Switch's, then surely coming up with a list that strongly support your claim shouldn'tbe this hard.
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*brings libraries into his argument:
"Don't bring up lists warz coz it'd be embarrassing with how inferior Switch's is"
*once asked for receipts:
"Nah coz I'm right but you're all blind with fanboyism so there is no point"
How convenient... a whole lotta 'nuthin
You've missed a couple of back and forth massages in your recap when we went from discussing a point to defending a new shiny console.