Is the IPad already not a portable gaming console with it's M1 chip?
With that said, the M1 probably wont stack up to whatever Nintendo chooses to do next - Nvidia are no slouch when it comes to
Portable GPU chipsets. They made portable gaming more plausible far before the M1 existed.
As for the M1, has yet to impress me in particular - it can barely play a PC variant of GTAV on low quality
and barely manages the moniker of matching a low end mid range PC with a simple high end GPU.
With enough ML applied and enough games built from the ground up to take advantage of the chip, sure it might
deliver impressive visuals but it will never ever match the latest PC hardware, ever - or for that matter a high end Console/True Next Gen Nvidia Chiplet - it
may however for a generation put Nvidia back on it's feet as they may not of seen this one coming in respect to their next Portable solution, meaning for a
generation Nintendo's next system could look less powerful but that remains to be seen. And really, by the time it matters to Nintendo - they'll release a more
powerful console.
And also, who is to say Nintendo will stick with Portable gaming as their main Hardware solution? They may offer more powerful hybrid solutions in the future or
a completely non portable machine.
Also, we have entered the Golden Era of Compute - where a mobile chip such as the M1 will be surpassed very quickly once that sector has decided to release more product . . .
and this cycle will continue ad infinite.
Expect to see this thread pop up again and again, about the M2 and future eyewear
Iphones with the M2, Ipad with the M2, Apple Glass with M2 - "will an M2 console destroy the Competition" threads
And then Nvidia will release it's Monster GPU/CPU for mobile. And all Apple gaming buzz will die off, as it always has.