Yeah if this thing can't run a Wii U game at solid 30fps then it's fucked.
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Nintendo Switch: Powered by Custom Nvidia Tegra Chip (Official)
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Yeah if this thing can't run a Wii U game at solid 30fps then it's fucked.
Edvardelis
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NVidia already built like 90% of this with the Shield tablet... how much that is different depends on what's new in the dock.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Definitely. I just hope it's not running CUDA..
peaceiscloser
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sixteen-bit
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can we expect similar performance to a GTX 750Ti or so?
Lister
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Probably fanciful daydream, but could this possibly also mean streaming PC games to the Switch, like the NVidia tablet?
UnemployedVillain
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Have you guys really never seen man-hours or man-years before??
Vanillalite
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So we know it's Tegra, but we still don't really know any deets.
Wonder if we will get any hard details before launch or not.
Wonder if we will get any hard details before launch or not.
I'm glad they've gone for Nvidia. They generally provide very good hardware. I mean they're actually always the most powerful in their respective class aren't they?
Most powerful gpus for pc, most powerful mobile chips.
Man I'm so exited for this console. I wish it was out this year though
Most powerful gpus for pc, most powerful mobile chips.
Man I'm so exited for this console. I wish it was out this year though
Claude Augario
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More like 10L.
Jorok Goldblade
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"Man Hours" is a term used to describe the amount of work done by adding up the time spent on the project by each member of the team.
"Man Years" basically means that the man hours on the project are enough to add up to years.
Gt750ti equals something similar to Gtx950m mobile chip for laptops and it can preety much run anything at 720p and leaks suggested that games will run at HD-res so yes, probably.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Its pretty easy to port from x86 to ARM isn't it?
SomedayTheFire
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A man-hour is one hours work, a man-day is one days work, a man year is one years worth of man-days.
if 500 people worked on this for 1 year, that's 500 man-years.
Omega Kirby
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So much crow, they're gonna be an extinct bird
Once it gets custom firmware probably.
Stuck to those guns through the late hours of the night.
That's a hard L to carry.
On topic though, I hope nVidia or Nintendo gives us a clear cut comparison of where this custom GPU stands among the rest.
If 500 people spent an entire year of their time only working on Nintendo Switch design.
Or if 250 people spent 2 years of their entire time only working on Nintendo Switch.
Same here.
Call me a skeptic who's (glad) to be proven wrong! I guess those initial deals with Nvidia back in the 3DS era really helped solidify Nintendo's position.
I wonder what will AMD think now. Will they have a chance (of securing another design win) for Nintendo in the future?
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Framerate and resolution are basically always choices of individual developers when making games. It's fairly impossible to answer that question without specific games being mentioned and then without examining what the game does while hitting that resolution/framerate.
But I'm going to guess the resolution companies aim for will be partially dependent on the screen. I bet Nintendo goes with 720/60 again or perhaps 1080/60 as their main target.
Bitch Pudding
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blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Yes. The wrong one.
Sir_Crocodile
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based charlie
I think this may be a worthwhile thread to talk about the fact that there's a vent on top of NX... I mean Switch (that'll take some time to get used to). That means active cooling, which means the potential for significantly increased clock speeds.
Nvidia describing the SoC as a "scalable processor" also has me thinking that this might be for docked mode only. Absent any kind of battery life limitations, there's no reason we couldn't see this clocked up to 1.5GHz in docked mode, giving a big enough performance boost for games to push 1080p in docked mode (vs 720p in handheld).
Nvidia describing the SoC as a "scalable processor" also has me thinking that this might be for docked mode only. Absent any kind of battery life limitations, there's no reason we couldn't see this clocked up to 1.5GHz in docked mode, giving a big enough performance boost for games to push 1080p in docked mode (vs 720p in handheld).
Confused Cheeseburger
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Intriguing. The mobility aspect [even though I don't game on the go outside the house] is ace enough to potentially to make up for sub X1 capabilities. The idea is sound but I'm not doing backflips. I want see the games, price, I want more details. Seems solid enough though.
sixteen-bit
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good to know, thanks.
the new Cruisin' arcade game uses GTX 750Ti hardware so I was curious, lol
I would be fine with that. Nintendo games on Wii U look damn good, even if they're running below 1080p.
So with these inferior specs, how are they going to convince third parties to invest time optimizing a port for this platform with wonky controllers and unproven online infrastructure when their money and time are better off spent developing PS4/XB1/PC versions with larger proven installbases and more flexible hardware?
Again, Nintendo is caught in the awkward position of being unattractive to the development of AAA third party games.
I get they announced a list of supporting third parties. They do that every gen to compensate their insecurities. But last time, it just ended up being mostly inferior ports until support died out.
Unless development costs on the platform are record low and accessible, I find it hard to imagine RDR2 or the next Battlefield coming to Switch.
Again, Nintendo is caught in the awkward position of being unattractive to the development of AAA third party games.
I get they announced a list of supporting third parties. They do that every gen to compensate their insecurities. But last time, it just ended up being mostly inferior ports until support died out.
Unless development costs on the platform are record low and accessible, I find it hard to imagine RDR2 or the next Battlefield coming to Switch.
Can't be that far off Xbone Graphics wise
I noticed this as well... here's hoping they fix it up.
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