If I planned to have record sales for the 2020 holiday season and a more powerful model planned a few months later, I would do everything possible to hide the existence of this model which would immediately make the first model obsolete upon its release. Many people have doubled dipped just for an animal crossing model.
Especially if the only thing to do to make the games compatible would be to say "hey devs, you now have 4 powerful cores and you will just have to assume that the API will handle the more powerful GPU by itself".
And let's be honest. Nintendo has no choice but to switch to a new process node for 2021. No matter which one is chosen, a x2 leap in all areas will be largely possible. Not only does TX1 have old uArchs but on top of that it was initially set to 20nm and downclocked.
On another subject. I am curious to know what will be the first chip to have A78C. It seems that Nvidia didn't need this uArch for Orin (12*A78) at first. Also I don't see Nintendo using this uArch in 2023...3 years after its announcement when ARMv9 will be available by then. I can't see Microsoft/Qualcomm making a chip without cortex X1. So outside of nintendo I don't see for whom this version of the A78 could be addressed.
Especially if the only thing to do to make the games compatible would be to say "hey devs, you now have 4 powerful cores and you will just have to assume that the API will handle the more powerful GPU by itself".
And let's be honest. Nintendo has no choice but to switch to a new process node for 2021. No matter which one is chosen, a x2 leap in all areas will be largely possible. Not only does TX1 have old uArchs but on top of that it was initially set to 20nm and downclocked.
On another subject. I am curious to know what will be the first chip to have A78C. It seems that Nvidia didn't need this uArch for Orin (12*A78) at first. Also I don't see Nintendo using this uArch in 2023...3 years after its announcement when ARMv9 will be available by then. I can't see Microsoft/Qualcomm making a chip without cortex X1. So outside of nintendo I don't see for whom this version of the A78 could be addressed.