Funny thing is that Nintendo probably has some games finished idling until they decide to release them lol. They're probably working on Switch 2 games almost 100% and just releasing what they already had finished for current Switch (save for some almost done games).
How you fit 2 GB of RAM + 32 MB of eDRAM into 512 (or 256 + 256) MB of RAM?
In terms of hardware and architecture, The WiiU was much more powerful than the PS360. Four times the ram (2GBs vs 512MBs), much newer GPU with GPGPU capabilities and, for the time, modern shaders and lighting effects, more stable CPU. The issue came down to clock speeds. The CPU of the WiiU was down at 1.24GHz while the PS360 CPUs were up in the 3GHz range. This would mean the rest of the hardware was slow and developers at the time would mention how slow the RAM was, regardless of there being four times as much. Imagine a game that was programmed to run on hardware that was 3 times faster than what it's being ported to. Suddenly that game would run much worse. Wouldn't matter if the other hardware could run more complex code more stable than the previous hardware, the game wasn't using that code to begin with. Doesn't matter if there is more memory if the game was never programmed with that much memory in mind. That low clock speed caused a lot of issues with ports that you wouldn't see on games with either dedicated versions or games made specifically for the WiiU.
Almost certainly. They sat on Fire Emblem Awakening for a while and are probably sitting on the Fire Emblem 4 remake as we speak. I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Wonder is already finished.
This is true, I think the problem was Wii U development was mostly GPU oriented while PS360 were more CPU oriented. Different approaches with different strength... In fact, it was said that PS3 CPU was even more powerful than those on PS4 and Xbone.
The Cell CPU was ridiculously advanced for it's time, so I have no doubt it was better than the Jaguar CPU in the PS4/Xbone. That said, the ARM CPU in the Switch is better than the Jaguar CPU. That was one of AMD's worst CPUs ever.
That's news to me, damn... I always thought it was actually one of the bottlenecks for some games
That's the way of the future IMO. But I also think Nintendo is a little old fashioned for that right now. By the time they get into that practice we will be used to it..
.I do wonder about the media the next switch will use, Steamdeck does seem to be getting away with using SD cards.
I do hope the CPU and read speeds are a decent step up though
Obviously.....It's also why it's funny that people are surprised when the Switch can run PS3/360 games
IDK about portal but I've seen footage of Dark Souls running at 18-23 fps constantly (not in busy moments) in X360 and that game doesn't even reaches 720p afaik, and I played it on Switch at 1080p 30fps locked (or so they felt)
I think the issue I'm having with the switch 2 is that I'm sure Nintendo is going to have some expensive feature added to it to bump the price and so the specs will be similar or weaker to the steam deck. Now the purchasing of parts should be cheaper that what Valve pays but by how much.
Lmao
I agree, Wii U was a notch above the PS3/360 consoles, but only if you focused on its strenghts,like developers taking the time to put real effort in their engine,and know the Wii U strange inner workings
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How Powerful is the Wii U Really?
How powerful is the Wii U really? Is it less powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360? Is it as powerful? More powerful? And …
The only element where that might be true is in the CPU.
Nintendo knew the direction they were going through, Wii U already was a half step, console games without TV,very low power consumption.their intention was to combine their home console and handheld into one system
Is this accurate, in terms of power ranking or tech capability in the console space?
360 - PS3 - Wii U - Switch - Xbox One - PS4 - PS4 Pro - Xbox One X - Xbox Series S - Xbox Series X / PS5 - Pro Consoles - Next Gen
Maybe the Switch 2 sits somewhere between the PS4 and PS4 Pro, but utilises DLSS and other new techniques to deliver a few current gen games at much lower resolution/framerate/graphics.
Steam deck is actually 1.6TFHas to be better
Under Snapdragon XR gen 2 would be incredibly awkward. Qualcomm did propose the chipset to Nintendo, so picking Nvidia over a chipset that will be mass produced, is proven to be cheap and performs in the 2.4TFlop range for a chipset made by nvidia for under Steam deck's 1.4 TFlop?
I mean.. Nintendo right.. but Nvidia must have some pride also to showcase their tech on console space.
Also the idea that Nvidia would propose Nintendo to scale to 4TF to meet PS4 pro is ridiculous. There's no way they aim for that nowadays, the age of native brute force is over. It could reach PS4 pro quality with the usual dock overclock and DLSS. The architectures have changed so much too between then and now. 2.5~3 Tflops from Nvidia's recent architectures ain't playing fair with AMD's PS4 solutions. PS4 pro with Jaguar CPUs
Yeah its hilarious and they will then bring up xenoblade x which looks like trash. Best way to judge hardware is just look at ports if the hardware ain't running most ports better then it ain't more powerful any meaningful way. It was the same with ps3. It's a piece of tech designed to run games if can't do that how can u call it more powerful?