SinCityAssassin
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It would depend if there's a sort of built-in check that lets a Switch know whether or not it's porting into a Switch Dock, otherwise you can probably run if off a beefy powerbank with USB-C to get the same results.
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Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed
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It would depend if there's a sort of built-in check that lets a Switch know whether or not it's porting into a Switch Dock, otherwise you can probably run if off a beefy powerbank with USB-C to get the same results.
All I can hope is for it to sell well, then.
Phreakuency
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Another Nintendo generation of amazing artwork and design let down by a lack of anti-aliasing...
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See, the problem though is that we've seen this story play out multiple times before. We know how it's going to turn out. The more info we find out, the worst it tends to be. Nintendo spec news always goes from high to low as time goes on. There is literally not one instance since 2005 where I can recall getting news about something that exceeded expectations.
NOLA_Gaffer
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Don't care about clock speeds, the games are all that matter.
It's like the jump from bald Krillin to full head of hair Krillin. The hair doesn't actually make him any stronger but it's nice for people that really like hair.
The hair is mobile gaming. I don't do any of that so these specs are a disaster.
If Nintendo needed to moneyhat someone, it would most likely be Ubisoft. The fact they have a collab game shows that they've already spent their moneyhatting funds.
So where are all these other ports coming from out of the woodworks?
Yes, that's why Wii U has sold only 12m. Those people make up really small portion out of all gamer population.
RowdyReverb
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Pretty much my thoughts. I thought Nintendo games looked great on the Wii U even in 2016. I guess the concern is for third party support when the hardware is so far behind the Xbox and PlayStation consoles
DangerMouse
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Probably the main positive that both their portable and console first party teams will all be on one system.
But I think to be safe keep those expectations partially in check quantity wise as many of those handheld devs/teams have pretty much never made an HD level game and will need to merge or expand as they are about to hit the HD wall, so at the very least some of those teams will probably take longer to finish projects.
Some people also wanted the TX1 devkit speculation thread closed since they believed it to paint too negative a picture.
GhostTrick
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Prithee Be Careful
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Me! This guy right here. I'm just a bit of a graphics whore and I don't like handhelds. I was hoping that NX would be code name for the NES III. Something on a level with PS4 Pro. I'd pay £349.00 for that, no worries.
marcbret87
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I'd imagine a thick device would defeat the idea of it being portable, no matter how much better battery life or graphics you could get. Personally, I'd be happy with a Wii-U level performance on the go and something about half of XOne docked. Third party support will come if it sells, as usual.
Interfectum
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Jarod McChicken
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So, about exploring Blighttown in Dark Souls Trilogy in my bed with portable mode... ?
GinoFelino
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I'm still laughing at it ¯\_(ツ
_/¯Even at the absolute worst-case scenario, it's still a gigantic hardware leap for a Nintendo handheld. Docked should be pretty great, too, if the performance increase is that big.
Garrett Hawke
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How did digital foundry get the neo specs?
They have sources, they wouldn't run with stuff if it wasn't reliable.
Impulsor
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Nintendo is marketing this thing all wrong.
This is not the sucessor to the Wii U. It's the successor to the 3ds with a "super game boy" attached to it so you can play it on TV.
It's primarily a portable console with the ability to be played on your TV, which is really neat.
They should market it like that and not the other way around IMO.
This is not the sucessor to the Wii U. It's the successor to the 3ds with a "super game boy" attached to it so you can play it on TV.
It's primarily a portable console with the ability to be played on your TV, which is really neat.
They should market it like that and not the other way around IMO.
outunderthestars
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Nintendo PR aside, I think this is them attempting to do just that while not admitting defeat. I am personally excited about the idea of Nintendo focusing their development on a single platform instead of both a handheld and a console.
martino
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i'm pretty confident dbz power marketing is also a part of current ps4 success.
imo if it don't sell a lot mainly as a portable with those rumored specs, it won't sell more than wii U because i don't see the big casual gimmick to sell it like wii and it doesn't have saiyan level required for a home console.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I think some of the backlash was because we had supposed "insiders" on the board (Matt, NateDrake, et al.) saying otherwise. I think that isn't unreasonable.
Kssio_Aug
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WUST never died. It was only in hibernation, waiting to return, biding its time.
Darkstorne
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And how many people own the 3DS? This is as much a sequel to their handheld as the home console. If not more so. Pokemon is all it will take to shift this thing - it's as powerful as the Wii U when undocked, and multiple times more powerful than the Vita. Look at it from a handheld perspective (their main earner and biggest market) and this is huge for Nintendo.
"all"
Skyrim and NBA2K that still don't officially exist
I expect Skyrim to actually release though.
Fbh
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I don't understand specs talk. But from some posts in this thread I understand that this means that on portable mode it's like a WiiU and on home console mode it's like a WiiU 1.5?
If that's the case I can't say I'm dissapointed. It's pretty much what I expected from Nintendo.
If this specs are real I doubt it will be seeing much Third Party support in the west. With the Pro out and Scorpio comming, soon the OG X1 and Ps4 will already be the low end machines of the gen. I doubt many devs will take the time to make sure their games run on an even weaker machine.
Unless it explodes in popularity and sales it sounds like this will be another Nintendo console to play Nintendo games on it. Though now that Nintendo can focus 100% of their software output on one machine it should still get a strong catalog
If that's the case I can't say I'm dissapointed. It's pretty much what I expected from Nintendo.
If this specs are real I doubt it will be seeing much Third Party support in the west. With the Pro out and Scorpio comming, soon the OG X1 and Ps4 will already be the low end machines of the gen. I doubt many devs will take the time to make sure their games run on an even weaker machine.
Unless it explodes in popularity and sales it sounds like this will be another Nintendo console to play Nintendo games on it. Though now that Nintendo can focus 100% of their software output on one machine it should still get a strong catalog
Skyrim, the thread about FROM Software...this...
Makes you wonder just what kinds of 3rd party games will be on the Switch? And how will they look.
So many questions are being raised now.
The Abominable Snowman
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Meh, Its still pretty damned good IMO. Down the line, I bet we could actually see some battery/fan peripheral that tricks the Switch into running docked, or there will be an upclock enabled in firmware.
The games look pretty decent at least so far, so I'm happy.
The games look pretty decent at least so far, so I'm happy.
I think the situation is not quite the same, the graphical bump is less noticeable from HD to 4K. Maybe it will have an iteration in several years or better an SCD to beef up the machine.
This sum up pretty much.
SliceSabre
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This is fine.
...if I treat it as the successor to the 3DS and not the WiiU.
...if I treat it as the successor to the 3DS and not the WiiU.
It's running Dark Souls 3 according to insider who is also backing this up, so there shouldn't be any problem.
PdotMichael
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Great isn't the term I would use for the declining dedicated handheld market.
Why do people believe such insiders when we had the proof that they don't anything - referring to that infamous Nintendo NX controller thread.
I'm very curious to see how they scale it back to run on this platform.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Which is probably where future SCDs come into play.
GhostTrick
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If you do so, it's a nice gap over Vita and 3DS.
540p undocked/720p docked, all low settings, Blighttown level of framerate :")
SinCityAssassin
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It's a good thing they worded it as a successor to neither of them then.
wonderful103
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WUST happens here with every console device speculation, regardless of brand.
I wouldn't doubt Matt. He knew what the device was months before it was a rumour.
sammyCYBORG
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I really wish they'd just make a traditional console that doesn't have to be compromised in specs.
Three gens in a row now :\
Three gens in a row now :\
It's not so much that the performance increase when docked is big, it's more that the performance decrease when portable is big.
That said, at least the ratio makes a lot of sense for straightforward 720p -> 1080p scaling (which is probably what Nintendo games at least will do).
3DS had much more than just Mario, Zelda and Pokémon. There's no guarantee that "more" would make an appearance on Switch.
You are well aware that 3DS is 80 dollars right now, right? This thing will be no less than 250$ when it launches, it's not fair to compare both.
Me too. I expected it to simply be 720p but would that be enough ?
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