The FTC doesn’t think the Nintendo Switch should be counted in the market that the Xbox operates in. It has been a source of debate between Microsoft and the FTC and now the FTC is grilling Spencer about the Switch.
“The Switch was designed for people to take on the go,” says Spencer. “It has a battery, it’s a mobile platform people can take it with them. Whereas the Gen 8 [Xbox One] consoles require that they’re plugged into the wall and don’t have a screen. Nintendo built a different platform.”
But the FTC reads Spencer’s previous testimony back to him. “In terms of CPU and GPU it would be more akin to a Gen 8 device,” said Spencer previously.
The questioning then moves on to how many fps the Xbox Series X / S consoles can support. Spencer says he doesn’t know the fps that Nintendo Switch support. Finally, he’s asked about GPU teraflops, as the FTC is once again trying to demonstrate the Nintendo Switch is different to the PS5 and Xbox Series S / X consoles.
“Xbox X metric operates higher FLOPs than Switch?” asks the FTC lawyer. “That’s fair to say,” says Spencer.
