Since the launch of the Nintendo Switch, it has been dominating the game console market. However, in recent years, due to the advent of PC handhelds such as Steamdeck and AYANEO equipped with AMD CPUs, the hardware specifications of the Switch that have remained unchanged for thousands of years have begun to be magnified and discussed again. , after all, people can play most of the 3A masterpieces, but you can’t justify it, right? Recently, Qualcomm announced that it has started negotiations with Nintendo and Sony SIE to discuss the future of future portable gaming devices. However, there is currently no news of the cooperation between the three parties, but Qualcomm will make the processor of the game console? In fact, there have been precedents recently:
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According to foreign media @Tech_Reve Twitter, Qualcomm vice president Alex Katouzian has been discussing with Nintendo and Sony SIE on the game handheld part, but it is still unknown whether they will cooperate:
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According to Alex Katouzian, Senior Vice President at Qualcomm, Qualcomm has recently been in discussions with Nintendo and Sony SIE regarding the future development of portable gaming devices.Of course, it’s unclear if this will actually lead to a partnership
— Revegnus (@Tech_Reve) May 31, 2023
As for whether Qualcomm can make chips for game consoles? I think Razer should be the clearest about this part. Razer, Qualcomm and Verizon will launch an Android mobile handheld named Razer Edge in early 2023. It is equipped with Qualcomm’s own Snapdragon G3x Gen 1, built-in Android system, and can play How about cloud streaming games and Android games? You can go to YouTube first, there are already many unboxing test videos of foreign players:
If the cooperation is feasible, this also means that the new version of the Nintendo Switch may be able to undergo a substantial upgrade on the hardware (?, from the perspective of various sources, it was previously reported that Nintendo is using NVIDIA Tegra T239 chips to develop new products. Game consoles, but the above news has not been confirmed yet, so everyone can only wait and see slowly. But as the market for game consoles expands, Switch hardware updates are already imperative (see The Legend of Zelda Kingdom Tears that beautiful graphics) :
As for Sony, the previous news is that it is currently building a handheld device code-named Q Lite, but it needs to be used with a PlayStation 5 host to play games remotely. It is not an independent streaming game console. As for whether it will There is no news about the launch of the PS Vita successor model. Perhaps after the cooperation with Qualcomm, there will be new game handheld products coming out?
