Nintendo Switch (NX)

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

NVIDIA gpu https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/2 ... do-switch/

[Spider]

Its interesting...and the marketing guys seem to have gotten the message that they need to make sure everyone knows its a console you connect to a TV set this time. Last time people seem to have thought the WiiU was just another peripheral for the Wii. Or just a tablet portable thing.

Honestly, I don't have high hopes for the performance of the device...because either its underpowered, or the battery life is abysmal. Now that nvidia is able to run their desktop grade GPU's in laptops, its certainly possible that they've got some sort of co-processor setup with a derivative of the Pascal architecture? That would at least be kinda energy efficient?

Nintendo is clearly not even going to attempt build a performance console that third parties will develop for. They are clearly obsessed with mobile...because its a success in Japan. Here, the money is in serious consoles. I don't know how long people are going to be willing to buy a whole hardware platform just to play Nintendo's games. I wish they'd just become a third party developer and let the rest of us buy their stuff.

[John Galt]

here's the list of known 3rd party developers for Nintendo Switch games



note: nintendo has had some serious issues letting 3rd party developers make games. but there is good reason. the video game industry crashed because of saturation of shit. there was a purina dog food game



the market crashed and took time to recover. in response nintendo became the household name as it was there to pick up the pieces, and made sure their games were quality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ame ... sh_of_1983

and frankly there's SO MUCH SHIT GAMES OUT THERE RIGHT NOW i don't blame nintendo for continuing to be picky

but as you can see they do have some big names

[Spider]

Here we go:



Don't know if legit...but it sounds like Tegra. This is smartphone hardware. lol.

256 CUDA cores. Cortex A57. Maxwell. This is a modified Tegra SoC.

Oh well. Don't expect the big third party games to be ported to ARM anytime soon.

[John Galt]

so what? im here for the zelda. everything else i buy on pc

[Spider]

Honestly I love the concept. The little kickstand is cool, and the ability to detach the controller...side...thingies...and use them like that. Ergonomically looks pretty great.

I just wish Nintendo could be the shit again. SNES and N64 were seriously great back when I was a kid. Nostalgia, I guess. Now they are becoming very niche.

[John Galt]

nintendo isn't about making realistic shooters or whatever, and never has. the reason the pcmasterrace gives nintendo a pass is because they haven't pretended to be something they aren't. while microsoft and sony talk about cinematic 24fps and shit, pc is the place where if you want to have actually good graphics you go too. nintendo makes games. it's games that you loved? split screen is a lot of them. it has f**k all to do with graphics. try watching goldeneye again. its horrible looking, but you had fun doing it. ninendo wants fun games, it doesn't want mindblowing graphics. and when the graphics are good it's typically highly stylized, rather than crisp and lifelike. and that's fine with me

[phosphide]

All I care about is playing Zelda and Mario Kart wherever the f**k I want to. Soon enough they'll also include the throwbacks (Ocarina of Time), to which I'll be set for quite a while. No more downloading ROMs from sketchy ass websites.

[Spider]