Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
Look no offence but I'll take my brothers word on it who works at a company with devkits for it and knows on that end what it is and isn't capable of compared to some blowhard at digital foundry or other analyst taking heads speculating online. Bojay the tegra in shield and the tefra2 Parker have much in common but also much enhanced. If wrong and before they start making the hardware in mass and they cheap out and dumb it down that would be a really criminally stupid move on their part.
The problem is that Nvidia has already made these same boasts for the earlier gen of Tegra and while they technically told the truth that the Tegra had the "same graphical features as the PS4/Xbox One" (i.e. not the same performance, but the same basic capabilities), they also stated that the processor in that earlier generation was only on par with Xbox 360/PS3. You're not going to get equivalent performance on a mobile SOC to what are essentially desktop PC processors and GPUs like you find on the PS4 and Xbox One. You're also losing performance because you'll be pushing the built in screen using some of the processor cycles. It's the same reason that various tablets have great specs on paper, but in practical use, they aren't anywhere close to what consoles can deliver with similar specs. Nintendo's plan is not to compete head to head with current gen consoles. What they are offering is something a little unusual in the hope that great games will make up for a significant performance gap.