Yes, I am "caping" for one of the best posters on this forum.
wait, we're talking about stumps here, right
That would be absolutely amazing if they manage to pull that off. Sheesh
Doubt it though gameplay gonna be like 4 hours medium brightness with wifi on for Zelda. Gamepad lasted 5 hours at times I think, usually 3 hours of gaming was enough though, can't lie
This is not in anyway, shape or form me trying to sound incredulous in regards to the source of the information here, but the closer you get to 8 hours, the more it sounds like an absolute pipe dream to me if you're talking about active gaming. 8 hours of internet browsing? Yeah, I'd believe it. 8 hours of playing Breath of the Wild? I am extremely skeptical. I'm skeptical of even hitting 5 in that use case.
Again, this is not me trying to call out NateDrake. If Kimishima or Reggie publicly stated this I would still be raising a very skeptical eyebrow.
But that's the key-word, targeting. It's not that I doubt your sources. But from what I'm reading of what you said, it seems like 5-8 hours is what Nintendo is hoping to hit. And while I do hope Nintendo reaches their goal, if they do is uncertain (unless you have more intel).Perfectly reasonable. It's a range I've heard they are targeting. Could be it closer to 5hrs or 6hrs? Absolutely. But that is why it is a range of between 5-8hrs.
Well the WiiU gamepad shipped with a very small battery. Even the "high capacity" battery they came out with later was only 2550mAh
5-8 hours would still be better than the pitiful Dualshock 4.
How similar are dev kits to the final product, usually? Pardon my ignorance.
Nate, you have one mission left should you choose to accept it...
We know a bit about the CPU.
We know about the RAM.
We know about the VC.
Find us a ballpark number for the GPU.
176 - 512 Glops or 512 - 1 Tflop ?.
I have faith that you can find this info out and make our Holidays happy !!
If this really is 80% of the Xbox one in dock mode and still had the life span of the 3ds while in handheld mode, I'll be left in awe of what they achieved.
Something tells me that Pascal is indeed being used.. And Nintendo chose the 60% energy efficiency over the 40% power increase from X1 to get the 5-8 hours of battery. That's my guess... :
The downclock/upclock isn't confirmed at all and you seem to have accepted it as reality already so may as well go all in.If the downclocking rumor is true and it can go to that extent, it means it is pretty powerful because pushing pretty decent graphics @720p for 5 straight hours without sweating and then it upclocks for the screen... it can be promising. But all of this is with a big IF.
I'm just gonna assume 5 hours in a best case scenario to prepare myself.
Any power "wasted" for portable mode battery can still be tapped while in docked mode. Granted, if portable mode is a limiting factor for games, I wonder if devs would bother even if it's powerful enough, especially if Nintendo mandates that games be playable in portable mode firstly and docked mode second. Which could pose a problem.
The downclock/upclock isn't confirmed at all and you seem to have accepted it as reality already so may as well go all in.
Something tells me that Pascal is indeed being used.. And Nintendo chose the 60% energy efficiency over the 40% power increase from X1 to get the 5-8 hours of battery. That's my guess... :
I'm interested in the amount of RAM just as much as GPU, as it gives a pretty good indicator of power. If its really 4GB as emily rogers said in late october, with 3.2GB for gaming, then it should be at least 3x as powerful as the Wii U, which is over 500 GFLOPS. If ind it hard to stomach an 80% xbone with only 4GB of RAM. Here's hoping the switch RAM gets upgraded to 6 or 8GB in the last minute(or at least 6).
Don't do this to yourself. They started production on the retail units months ago. There is no last minute upgrading at this stage.
Is yours broken? I easily get 7-8 hours out of mine.
Anyway, this seems pretty decent for the Switch considering games will be bigger than what the 3DS gave us.
Is yours broken? I easily get 7-8 hours out of mine.
Anyway, this seems pretty decent for the Switch considering games will be bigger than what the 3DS gave us.
Let me clarify:
- We sometimes verify people that claim to actually be in the industry, but it's pretty rare.
- The manner of verification is to give them a cursory ask of who they work for and/or if they are reporting something second hand, who their source works for. In some extreme cases this has involved a follow-up on Linkedin. We can only verify that someone is theoretically in a position to know the things they're saying, not that what they're saying is true. It is not possible to verify a priori that something is true--no one moderating GAF is doing so in their capacity as a game developer (although a few moderators here are developers) or a game journalist (although a few moderators here are journalists)
- The main purpose of verifying people is so when they make claims, and then those claims don't come true, we know it was because things changed rather than them being full of shit. So for example if the battery life ends up being 3-5 hours or 8-10 hours, then this claim is wrong, but how will you know whether it's wrong because the information was wrong and you shouldn't have trusted it, or because it was right but things changed?
- Unfortunately because we're pretty good at blocking or banning sources that end up completely incorrect, we create an incentive for fakers or people exaggerating what they know to make vague claims and teases. One of the things that frustrates me the most about this category of rumours is that even if they're a GAF member, there's no way to hold them accountable.
- It's not clear how we would verify a random YouTube video maker. They have no public identity to verify, they don't claim to be in the industry so we can't connect them to a company, and if they had any evidence they were willing to share they'd presumably have shared it in their video, right? So what would you have us do?
- I don't think anyone should believe anything that can't be disproven, and the vague and more Nostradamus-like the claim, the more likely you should consider it bogus.
- I do think you should trust mid-to-large size commercial journalistic outlets rather than random freelance fan journalists.
- Most of the "actually trustworthy" "insiders" who provide information are still pretty unprofessional in terms of how they choose to relay information that they haven't adequately confirmed, or in terms of misrepresenting their certainty, or their source's certainty, or their own ability to verify their source's credibility. I don't think it makes sense to dig in deep against specific people, but by far the biggest category of people we've had to deal with is not people totally making up fake stuff, it's people who have very poor discretion about trusting their sources and overplay their hands. That's my sense of what happened with Verendus, for example (although I can't know for sure), as well as other past NeoGAF would-be insiders like thuway and famousmortimer.
Looking at Zelda running perfectly and then knowing it will last as much as my 3DS makes me happy!
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Yes.