 Hey everyone, now I don't know how many of you pay attention to all of the reports out there for the next gen systems coming from Microsoft and PlayStation. A lot of people that watch this channel only play Nintendo games and if you do play more than that maybe you are aware of some of the rumors and reports going on out there. But one thing that's obviously as a switch owner been really concerning about this platform is that by the time Xbox, Scarlett and PlayStation 5 come out the switch will be severely behind in both a technological perspective being 2015 tech vs something much newer 2018-2019 tech and in addition to that also just being behind from a pure performance perspective this is the worst performing home console on the market and in terms of just the raw performance and already being behind PlayStation 4 and Xbox One we're talking the base models not even the pro and the X it's going to be hard to fathom how third party games like Mortal Kombat 11 and stuff like that could come to switch the Witcher 3 as an example as well how we can get those games coming to switch basically from 2021 and on forward. People are worried that third party sports just going to drop off a cliff now Nintendo has ways to combat this themselves either by releasing a switch pro that could significantly bump the performance maybe by 1.5X the current switch performance or whatever the case might be maybe it's a whole brand new generation of switch and we're talking switch too and we're getting 2-3 teraflops of performance or whatever the case might be which is possible right now with current mobile technology or something that we don't even know that's being developed inside Nvidia that has a 10-year partnership with Nintendo we'll have to wait and see what Nintendo does either in response to those systems or just as the natural order after all we've had the 3DS we have the 3DS XL we have the new Nintendo 3DS and the new Nintendo 3DS XL then we have the 2DS so we don't really know and with switch we've already had obviously the base switch then we have the slightly upgraded model switch which is basically just better battery life because it's probably using a new design chipset which is also featured on the Nintendo switch light which is why that also despite having a smaller battery has longer battery life but we have seen these 3 different models of switch 2 of them that well one that basically replaces the other and then obviously the light with cutback features you would figure that must mean there's going to be a boosted switch in the future with additional features or at least more performance or it'll be strictly under TV system we don't really know what Nintendo's got planned it's all guesswork at this point based on little bits of information we get from rumors reports hiring posts linked in profiles and whatever the case might be it's all guesswork at this point to connect dots and try to figure things out if you're interested in maybe the perspective of oh my gosh Nintendo's gonna release a super powerful switch pro or switch to maybe check out Super Metal Dave 64 channel he does he kind of leans towards that direction and provides all of his evidence for that if you think the opposite of that well keep thinking the opposite of that because really none of us know but that's what Nintendo might combat the systems coming in what if I told you that Microsoft has actually opened a pathway for switch even as is switch today to continue to get third party support beyond next year what if I told you that triple a games such as MLB the show which by the way is going multi-platform now with its new contract could potentially come to switch next year and a year after in the year after that and not really be you know that much of a downgraded version sure we're you know less FPS and stuff like that but I mean it wouldn't need to necessarily be a completely different game kind of like you know if you guys remember Madden and stuff back on the Wii Madden on Wii was not even remotely the same game as Madden on the other systems we're talking legitimate third party ports and the reason is because Microsoft is apparently launching at least two platforms when the next Xbox launches and one of them has been announced in Scarlett but the other one is kind of behind the scenes and they're all going to be Scarlett platforms but they have code names behind the scenes that aren't Scarlett and those code names are basically Anaconda and Lockhart and we have a report from Windows Central a very reliable place that only puts this stuff up when it's fairly legit and we're gonna go through this report just to look at what these systems are and then I'll explain how switch is somehow still in the game because of what Microsoft is doing very interesting so let's let's get into it all right so inside inside the target specs of the next project Scarlett Anaconda Lockhart etc so Scarlett's the overall name of the brand we don't know if it's gonna keep that that name when it launches probably not and then Anaconda Lockhart are the behind scene systems that that make up the Scarlett brand all right just to give some background there so Microsoft is gearing up to reveal two product tax for next-gen consoles complete with a more affordable skew dubbed Lockhart and a more beastly premium skew codenamed Anaconda we don't know what they'll look like and I need that stuff and in 2019 reveal video Xbox cloud architect Karim Chaudry said Scarlett would eat monsters for breakfast and indeed Anaconda looks as though we'll be able to according to several sources from earlier Microsoft plans Anaconda is targeting around 12 teraflops of performance now this is just like a GPU performance metric is is not tell you the whole story with performance teraflops is an important metric but it's not the only metric that matters but in this case 12 teraflops would be basically taking two Xbox one X's and duck taping them again together Xbox one X has six teraflops the GPU performance so it's like I said having two of those duct tape together which is still a pretty beastly system but there's more advanced tickling I mean all the SSDs the better RAM the better a lot lots of things that are just better but 12 teraflops of performance is very impressive the Xbox one X is a six Xbox one S has 1.4 Lockhart conversely will support around four teraflops of performance I want you to remember that number four teraflops of performance for Lockhart which is actually two teraflops worse than the Xbox one X but again this doesn't mean that it's actually worse than Xbox one X a GTX 1070 as an example is actually less teraflops of performance than older AMD cards that you know put out six teraflops but the 1070 actually performs better because there's more to this than just teraflops just want to keep this in perspective because it's very unlikely that Lockhart's going to be outperformed by the X overall anyways according to marketing materials we see previously it is being positioned as the most affordable entry point to next gen experiences because it doesn't sound like PlayStation has anything planned but just a straight-up PlayStation 5 teraflop doesn't really tell the entire story custom tech being baked into the consoles for example Microsoft already spoke about ray tracing will be a factor in next gen systems and while Lockhart is less raw power than the X so all the capabilities are elevated further than the X in various ways both Lockhart and Anaconda report sport eight CPU cores targeting around 3.5 gigahertz which does blow the switch out of the water with Anaconda reaching a bit higher per core than Lockhart so maybe 3.8 or something like that that's that's pretty normal if it's a beefier system with better cooling the relatively modest increase in clock speed over the previous gen systems might seem mild but vast improvements to caching new silicone architecture and other general bespoke proprietary optimizations will see Anaconda perform anywhere up to four to five times better than Xbox one X basically Ryzen they're gonna be using AMD Ryzen CPUs and Ryzen even though Ryzen has lower clock speeds than say maybe an Intel chip or similar clock speeds of what they were using before it's just a better overall performing chip with modern architecture and I literally am editing this video with a Ryzen 2700X I can definitely say it's a lot better than people might realize AMD really brought it with this Ryzen line and that does appear to be what both the Xbox and PlayStation will be using so this isn't anything to knock on PlayStation five we just don't really have specs or even rumored specs out there for PlayStation 5 yet all right let me see Anaconda before anywhere up to four to five times better than the Xbox one X even though it's only double the tariff ops again there's a lot more that goes into it just the tariff ops if targets are met we're told that at least Anaconda will guarantee 13 gigabytes of RAM for games which is a lot I have 32 gigabytes of RAM on my computer running at 3200 speed and DDR4 it man I haven't seen a game use more than 8 even Red Dead Redemption 2 so that's a crazy amount of RAM available for games 3 gigabytes on the OS so it'll have 16 total the Xbox comparison offered a maximum of 9 gigabytes for games but it was kind of if he had if you could get that extra gig so which was perfect really because most games don't need more than 8 gigs of RAM as I said I game on PC when I have an overload and RAM because I video edit and I still don't have any games that come close to touching more than 8 gigs but it's nice to have all that RAM because you know if you're multitasking you have Chrome open Google Chrome infamously eats RAM the Xbox person offered a maximum of 9 gigabyte for games which varied based on what the OS was doing Microsoft also said and it's revealed it SSD could be used to throw in virtual RAM as necessary so virtual RAM is a thing that hasn't really people always say you could download more RAM that's kind of an ongoing joke in the PC world oh just download more RAM you can convert SSD space into virtual memory basically make it into a former RAM it's just not as good it's not really something that I think anyone's realistically going to be doing but the you know that you could throw in more virtual RAM you could do that with any SSD so I mean you can do it with a spinning disk and it's really slow so let's just leave it at this people aren't going to take advantage of that it's it's a dumb dumb thing that's only useful in very select tasks and gaming is not one of those tasks anyways one huge focus of area for lockout and a conda is the MBME SSD proprietary tech this is something that Nintendo can't do anything about we're talking gen 4 SSD these are the fastest hard drives on the planet I'm sure the Xbox and PlayStation won't be using the fastest of the fastest because that'll be available on PCs as the tech advances further but Nintendo can't do anything about that they're gonna have faster faster hard drives and stuff you know almost no load times things that take like a minute to load right now on the X will take like seconds Nintendo can't do anything about that that's just a pure speed bandwidth limit that Nintendo doesn't cross because they're not using gen 4 Ryzen technology Intel will eventually get there as well and all the stuff in using gen 4 but right now it's only AMD side of things that has this tech so to get rid of load times completely I kind of talked about that let me see here the inclusion of the project xCloud across Xbox system like to start gaming via streaming yep we already know about xCloud and based on what happened with Google Stadia I think xCloud's in a much better position but we'll see we don't know the how that pricing is going to work out exactly and how well it's going to perform anyways too all right next year it's all we'll save any time increasing read speeds by gigabytes per second again this has to do with the fastest SSD tech in the world going from spinning disks which is what the Xbox one X even uses we've been told that while many games will function across generations so again games are still going to support Xbox one X and original Xbox next gen features such as ray tracing dynamic reflections and the like will probably be exclusive to Lockhart Nana Kanda her new APIs that come as part of the game core OS which is also part of the window core OS effort we've been covering a window core a I'm not going to dive too deep into that because that now now that really gets into Microsoft but yeah they're developing some game specific stuff in their windows core iOS which is going to be great for PC and for Xbox that's probably will be able to run all previous gen games that are available on Xbox one today including backwards compatible games the Microsoft is already announced yeah which they already said literally day one you could put any Xbox one disk in it'll it'll install and work you can download your digital library it'll just work that's really how everything should happen I think when switch two comes out I really hope it's just fully backwards compatible day one without having to put an extra work and I don't mean fully combat backwards compatible like the Wii U was where it was like a separate thing I was basically they put a Wii inside the Wii U and then you had a launcher totally separate system like having two computers and in one box yeah that was that was dumb I mean it's better to exist than not exist but I hope that it's just fully backwards compatible which is gonna have a lot to do attack Xbox and Microsoft can do this because they moved to x86 x86 is widely and easily a PC standard that you know moves across generations that's why games work on multiple generations of hardware on the PC side I'm moving on down the Xbox one x games will be unlocked frames and dynamic resolution but perform better on scarlet blah blah blah my son world struggles maintain 60 FPS and Xbox one x even in its performance mode even without an update it should manage to hit its target FPS without an issue in scarlet games also be able to take advantage increase SSD load speed blah blah blah on it goes and the point of talking about that is not to like tout Microsoft's horn because it's gonna be a wonderful system I'm sure PlayStation 5 is going to be absolutely wonderful as well pricing is gonna be key there you know is it gonna be 500 600 bucks for the one is the other one the other one's rumored to be like 200 bucks like that's crazy if they can get Lockhart out next-gen better than Xbox one X of 200 that that's a really enticing price point I think it's just interesting on the whole that they're doing this they're doing this two tiered system because the switch itself I don't know if you guys know this actually let's go ahead and just look at GPU power compare now this is this is from gain spots so think what you want of it and it's not 100% accurate because the exact performance of switch isn't perfectly at one teraflop it fluctuates a lot and it depends on if you're in handheld mode or docked mode on now it depends if you own this switch or if you own a switch light so like that's another thing you have to take into consideration so that one teraflop of performance isn't an exactly perfect summation of what the switch can do or what the switch is doing all the time but there it is it's about one tflop which is behind the Xbox one behind Xbox one s and behind the PlayStation 4 but as you could see close enough to the Xbox one specifically that you can reasonably get some ports again though there's a difference of RAM there's a difference in CPU architecture and all that so there's a lot of differences that make things much more difficult on switch I mean there's only like what 4 gigs of RAM I think on switch that's nothing that that's that's absolutely nothing compared to everyone else now that means heck that's nothing compared to my phone that being said the reason I bring this up is the switch right now you know Microsoft talked about you know most games are still going to be available on the old Xbox system and the new one just with better stuff this could be like that for years it was like that for years as past generation when you have a four tflop performance system out there and the switch is at one tflop basically their their lockers actually slightly below the PlayStation 4 Pro in terms of raw GPU output that's going to keep switch in the realm of getting third-party games even on the current switch even on this one right here an OG launch model switch it's going to be able to stay within the realm of possibility to get third-party ports as long as third-party games are actually coming out on lockers which why won't they because it's likely going to have a fairly decent market share being the budget entry into the next gen and I think that's important for Nintendo and it's even more important if Nintendo does do a switch pro that hits 1.5 tflops it's 1.8 and it's basically a portable PlayStation 4 maybe that's the switch to or something I don't know but if that happens that just makes things even easier for third parties to justify hey look we're going to make that jump from Lockhart switch it's just going to happen switches a huge audience they're buying the Witcher 3 they're buying Mortal Kombat they're buying all these Final Fantasy games they're buying these Assassin's Creed ports you know Assassin's Creed 4 I think I think just recently came out on switch I know that's not exactly the best example we would love to see origins or something on switch but still it's nice to see third parties are coming to switch and that's the biggest fear I think people have who bought switch at like playing third-party triple-a games is even if we get late ports like we're still getting the outer worlds next year you know we're still gonna get Doom Eternal after it comes to other platforms like we're still getting these games are they going to vanish when Scarlett and PlayStation 5 come out and the answer is it doesn't look like that's going to happen Microsoft just did something that's going to keep Nintendo in the game if Lockhart is real and this happens Nintendo is going to still be realistically in the realm of getting ports especially if Nintendo doesn't just stick with the base model switch for the next three four five years which I think we all know sometime in the next three four five years there's going to be some sort of new model switch that's more powerful coming out right like Nintendo's not just going to sit here and rest on their laurels are there I feel like they're gonna still push something forward so even if it's not next year it doesn't really matter to me what matters is that Microsoft in making a smart business move for themselves making an interesting business move at least and it will see how it performs on the market we know you know switch light is cheaper than switch but sells worse than switch so we don't really know what's going to happen but with all of this in consideration obviously the Xbox could flop you know I I think that Nintendo is going to be just fine with third parties I think this just got rid of my fears that we're gonna stop getting third-party ports of games you know Microsoft fully admitting games are still gonna be coming to the OG Xbox even after these systems launch you know you have them saying hey and even when things are next-gen and have ray tracing and all that you know we're gonna have a lower performance model which in theory could make porting the switch even easier to do so I know for some people that are tech heads that want everything to push the max of a max they might be a little disappointed because obviously games that are specifically made for say the most powerful box on the planet might not downscale as well and they might not want it wanted to downscale you know like a Red Dead Redemption 3 or GTA 6 or whatever is next but I do think that this is good news for Nintendo fans this is good news for the switch and it's funny that Microsoft's the one doing it since Microsoft and Nintendo have been the ones that have been really buddy buddy towards the end of the Xbox one generation here we know we've been getting some Xbox games I'll say Minecraft has been a smashing hit on switch over a million copies sold in just Japan alone let alone what's been happening all over the world with Minecraft on switch we're talking physical copies we're not even talking to the digital ones where Minecraft is always more popular we're talking Ori and the Blind Forest and Cuphead and like we don't know what what the future is gonna bring between Microsoft and Nintendo but Microsoft did basically just you know maybe unintentionally through a bone to Nintendo it said hey we're gonna make it so third parties can still bring stuff to you because we're gonna bring a next-gen system that everyone has to support and that's gonna make it more able to downgrade to you so we'll see what happens I think this is exciting stuff that not just the next gen stuff but the idea that even if you bought this launch day switch you might not have to worry for a few years I think that that is just an amazing thing when it comes to third-party support we've seen that AAA third-party sport has been growing on switch a lot of us don't want it to shrink anytime soon because we know you know Nintendo's next-gen system can't be coming for at least two or three years so switch needs them remain viable with their parties during that period and Microsoft is basically ensuring that that is a distinct possibility so thanks Microsoft for inadvertently helping out Nintendo a bit let me know you guys think down in the console low about Xbox Scarlett the anaconda version a lot cart version what you think about switches potential future with third-party games is going to be after next year because I'm a majority of next year you know the next-gen platforms won't be out so well they'll be talked about and well they'll be hyped third-party games that come out in 2019 should realistically still be able to come to switch you know we should be beginning NBA 2k20 and stuff like that that shouldn't even be a concern next year it's gonna be 2021 when we got it we're really gonna get that next NBA 2k game I hope so and I think that this just lends credence to the fact that we still will anyway so let me know to think about down the console I am with the rubber that's from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning in if you like this video like it if you don't I guess drop a dislike subscribe for more content and one final note I do want to apologize after they're not being a prime news over the weekend I was having a big issue with my editing software for a few days the issues now resolve but it's one of those things where prime news is very time sensitive on Sundays so you releasing on a Monday or Tuesday just doesn't make sense it's a last week recap and then another video I was working I was time sensitive as well that I had to cancel so hey whatever you got this video today I hope you enjoyed it and yeah hopefully we don't have any more hiccups like that but you know things happen all right I'll catch you guys in the next video