I liked this more than I probably should have. I love a good meta pun.
Nintendo Switch Dev Kit Stats Leaked? Cortex A57, 4GB RAM, 32GB Storage, Multi-Touch.
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I liked this more than I probably should have. I love a good meta pun.
Wolfgang Jr
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Think you should check your info again. There's quite a few wide-screen GC games.
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Or you mean some of the stuff would never need to move from the cpu in the first place.
Well yes that is true, but at the very least the textures won't look out of place at the original resolution.
Zeyphersan
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Nintendo Switch |OT| Play. The. Game.
Nostremitus
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This one got a chuckle.
I thought PS2 games on PS4 rendered at a lower resolution than 1080p and then upscaled?
It makes me wonder what the bootscreen will look like for the device.
Vampirolol
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Nintendo Switch |OT| "Wii would like to Switch"
Speaking of Wii, they could totally have called it the "Swiitch" .
Nintendo just can't not come up with names you can naturally inject the word "Wii" into it seems. Obviously it's good they didn't and it was never in the cards if I had to guess, but it's still funny to me.
Pasedo
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Nintendo is going to show the world again that simply having the most powerful hardware and best graphics does not determine being the number 1 console seller. Their unique value proposition and optimal level graphics approach which balances performance, price and power will win out again. Unlike the confusing Wii U and Wii U marketing the Switch is going to be very easy to market and I think Nintendo are already off to a good start. I bet this will be another Wii success story. Maybe better.
Even if the CPU is the same, one thing is a fanmade emulator that also needs to run on Android, and another thing is an emulator done by Nintendo with their documentation (and NS better API/OS for games). It's not "probably" doable, there would be no comparison.
Now does this mean that the Switch will emulate games in HD? That's entirely up to Nintendo, they won't do it if they want to sell remakes for example. Personally, i think they will run at the original resolution.
HandsomeCharles
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You could, but that wouldn't result in it being 1080p, which is what I was addressing in my post.
Yes. It tends to be more forgivable on 3D models, and various types of filtering could be applied in order to make it look "decent", but HUD textures would probably look fairly odd. Go have a look at a 1080p game running on Dolphin and you'll notice a significant disconnect between how the 3D game looks (Normally pretty good) and how the HUD looks.
Yea, probably.
Your link doesn't work, but I believe you
Blackpuppy
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X86 is just a family of CISC processors invented by Intel in the 70s with their 8080 chip. The 86 moniker comes from the 8086 processor which was a 16 bit extension of the original 8 bit 8080.
This includes the Pentiums and the Core (2) Duos and the i3/5/7 series etc.
Other manufacturers have made clones, the most famous being AMD.
Skittzo0413
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Nintendo Switch |OT| The Wicked Switch of the East
On topic, I don't know why RAM suddenly became a huge issue for people again over the last couple days... Nothing new to worry about I guess?
On topic, I don't know why RAM suddenly became a huge issue for people again over the last couple days... Nothing new to worry about I guess?
Blackpuppy
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That was part of the title dude. I don't actually need you to explain x86 for me.
My bad. I need some sleep..
Well I appreciated the quick explanation, so there you go.
Cheeseman Battitude
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Nintendo Switch |OT| Smack my Switch up
blu
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Hehe, I chuckled audibly.
Nintendo Switch |OT| That is one ugly bezel
dragonyeuw
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Nintendo Switch |OT| Not the successor to Wii U or 3DS
Nintendo Switch |OT| If this doesn't work, we're fcuked
Nintendo Switch |OT| we're doing pre-orders this time
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's been nice knowing ya, Vita
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Nintendo Switch |OT| we're doing pre-orders this time
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's been nice knowing ya, Vita
Mr. Pointy
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Nintendo Switch |OT| The real NXt gen console is here
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's was Tegra, Austin! It's was Tegra all along
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's so bad you'll Switch it off and walk away
Nintendo Switch |OT| The ol' Switcheroo
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's a handheld, okay
Nintendo Switch |OT| The Nintendo Doom Clock counts down another minute
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's was Tegra, Austin! It's was Tegra all along
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's so bad you'll Switch it off and walk away
Nintendo Switch |OT| The ol' Switcheroo
Nintendo Switch |OT| It's a handheld, okay
Nintendo Switch |OT| The Nintendo Doom Clock counts down another minute
Mr. Pointy
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Nintendo Switch |OT| Portable Dark Souls/Skyrim/(insert console game here)
dragonyeuw
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DXB-KNIGHT
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You were expecting a Switch, But it was me NX | OT
Mihael Mello Keehl
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I vote this! lol
Hero of Legend
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Nintendo Switch |OT| Be-Switched *nose twitch*
Skittzo0413
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So since a lot of people are apparently looking at this thread now and because this is pretty much the Nintendo tech thread, I wanna float this theory that I tried to ask about the other day:
So I remembered a rumor from about a year ago that the NX was running this demo which was apparently impossible to run on anything but a high end PC:
And I remembered that Todd Howard of Bethesda recently said something about a Switch demo that's under NDA:
So, let's say that these two demos are the same thing, a tech demo running on the Switch. I'm not saying that the Switch will somehow get an enormous power boost to put it at high end PC levels, but consider the visuals Nintendo was able to get out of the Wii U, including those tech demos- the Zelda demo, the bird demo...
Now that Nintendo's software sorcerers have access to modern, cutting edge mobile tech, I wonder if they've actually managed to prepare a tech demo which does visually blow away the supposed limitations of the hardware. Something which takes maximum advantage of Tegra's capabilities, like FP16, to produce visuals that would seriously fool people who work in the game industry (like Todd Howard) into thinking the device was far more powerful than it is on paper.
So what do you think? Will we see a ridiculously impressive looking tech demo in January?
So I remembered a rumor from about a year ago that the NX was running this demo which was apparently impossible to run on anything but a high end PC:
Source
And I remembered that Todd Howard of Bethesda recently said something about a Switch demo that's under NDA:
Source
So, let's say that these two demos are the same thing, a tech demo running on the Switch. I'm not saying that the Switch will somehow get an enormous power boost to put it at high end PC levels, but consider the visuals Nintendo was able to get out of the Wii U, including those tech demos- the Zelda demo, the bird demo...
Now that Nintendo's software sorcerers have access to modern, cutting edge mobile tech, I wonder if they've actually managed to prepare a tech demo which does visually blow away the supposed limitations of the hardware. Something which takes maximum advantage of Tegra's capabilities, like FP16, to produce visuals that would seriously fool people who work in the game industry (like Todd Howard) into thinking the device was far more powerful than it is on paper.
So what do you think? Will we see a ridiculously impressive looking tech demo in January?
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Todd Howard seems to be strictly talking of a demonstration on how well/coherent the hardware functions. Not graphics.
Skittzo0413
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I can remember him hyping up that "radiant AI" and "radiant quests" and all that bullshit but I don't really remember him trying to hype up hardware, or any non-Bethesda product. Still, he could very well be trying to oversell whatever he saw quite a bit.
The fact that he mentioned an NDA makes me think he was talking about a specific demo, not just the hardware. His next quote sorta reinforces that:
It sure seems like he slipped up a bit mentioning this "demo" and then backtracked it to mean he was excited about the device itself. I really doubt he would say "I got to play it" and then say "Probably the best demo I've ever seen. At E3." referring to the hardware itself. People don't really say they "play" on a device and then say it's the best device they've "seen".
Of course that could just be me massively reaching.
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