{"id":95203,"date":"2019-06-17T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/new_nvidia_shield_tv_could_share_the_same_chipset_as_the_upgraded_switch"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:30:00","slug":"new-nvidia-shield-tv-could-share-the-same-chipset-as-the-upgraded-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/new-nvidia-shield-tv-could-share-the-same-chipset-as-the-upgraded-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nvidia Shield TV Could Share The Same Chipset As The Upgraded Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we all know, the Nintendo Switch and Nvidia Shield TV share the same chipset \u2013 the Terga X1. Nvidia leveraged its knowledge of mobile chipsets to held Nintendo create its hybrid console, and as a result, hasn’t refreshed its own Shield line in what feels like forever. That appears to be changing this year.<\/p>\n

Evidence has been discovered within the Google Play Developer Console\u2019s Device Catalogue that strongly suggests that Nvidia is producing a new Shield TV console. The previous model’s codename was “darcy”, and a new entry has appeared with the codename “mdarcy”.<\/p>\n

Developers working on the Tegra kernel have told XDA Developers that they believe the refreshed CPU and GPU combo \u2013 called “t210b01” at this stage, but still believed to be part of the Tegra X1 family \u2013 will boast \u201cbetter power usage\u201d and a \u201chigher maximum GPU clock\u201d, the latter of which will provide a noticeable boost in performance.<\/p>\n

This ties in with discoveries made a few months ago<\/a>, when a custom ROM developer dug inside Nvidia\u2019s public source code release and found references to \u201cstormbreaker\u201d and \u201cfriday\u201d \u2013 the former a new joypad controller and the latter a remote.<\/p>\n

An Nvidia spokesperson responded to the findings by saying: \u201cWe can\u2019t comment on which codenames refer to product concepts that are active vs which ones are inactive, as it can be fluid. However, I can confirm that none of the codenames refer to products that have launched publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

This news links in rather neatly with the rumours that Nintendo is working on an “upgraded” Switch<\/a> console, which will be released alongside a more cost-focused edition of the system<\/a>. It would make sense for Nvidia to produce an updated Shield TV system if it’s already working on a refreshed X1 for Nintendo.<\/p>\n

Nintendo has yet to confirm that any new Switch SKUs are in development, but its recent shift of production<\/a> has added more weight to these reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we all know, the Nintendo Switch and Nvidia Shield TV share the same chipset \u2013 the Terga X1. Nvidia leveraged its knowledge of mobile chipsets to held Nintendo create its hybrid console, and as a result, hasn’t refreshed its own Shield line in what feels like forever. That appears to be changing this year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}