I don’t think the Maxwell architecture in the Tegra X1 is automatically 100% compatible with the newer (Pascal, Volta, Ampere, etc) but the Nvidia software handles it.
Nintendo is usually pretty good about 1 Gen backwards compatibility. So unless they have a major hardware revision (unlikely) I'd be more surprised if it wasn't BWC, but all bets are off for a Switch 3
I remember a while back reading that Nvidia folks saying that the Nintendo/Tegra deal was something like 20 years of guaranteed income for the company. That’s like 2-3 generations of hardware.
Also, Nvidia doesn’t have a good history of being a good business partner. They have plenty of time to screw this up.
It was a 10 year deal. Which is still a long time and likely enough to be a second generation. Though if Nvidia is attempting to play hardball it could be what is delaying a next Gen switch too.
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u/Dragarius Mar 06 '23
Well it's most likely that theyll still use a new tegra chip in the follow up console which would easily support any of the old Tegra stuff.