Management statements from today's Nintendo investors meeting.
Cutting edge != powerful hardware.
Imagine talking about cutting edge technology and power with a fucking tablet as a main console...
Imagine talking about cutting edge technology and power with a fucking tablet as a main console...
iPads aren’t cutting edge?
Just adjusting the thinking here. Portable consoles will never be a competitor to anchored consoles, but there’s no reason they can’t be cutting-edge in their own right, for the portable segment.
Ipads are cutting edge for what they do.iPads aren’t cutting edge?
Just adjusting the thinking here. Portable consoles will never be a competitor to anchored consoles, but there’s no reason they can’t be cutting-edge in their own right, for the portable segment.
Can't wait to see xbone graphics in 2021 (if we are lucky) thanks to these cutting age mobile chips...You... you know that's one of nVidia's current big interest right? One of their reasons for buying ARM was their tegra line (along with AI). I mean, it's nVidia themselves making the claim, so a grain of salt, but the Tegra Xavier NX, an SBC the size of laptop RAM, supposedly can get 3TFs
Management statements from today's Nintendo investors meeting.
Can't wait to see xbone graphics in 2021 (if we are lucky) thanks to these cutting age mobile chips...
In terms of gaming? Hell no. The example they showed as cutting edge graphics at yesterday's event looked like a PS3 game.
Ipads are cutting edge for what they do.
A gaming console in 2020 with shitty performance is not cutting edge for me.
Ues you can consider the switch a portable console and the power is enough for that, but people forget that they sell this thing as an hybrid, and as a home console is absolute trash.
Ok maybe my choice of words was not optimal but you get what i'm saying.Did I say gaming, for iPads?
‘Absolute trash’ runs Super Mario Odyssey. But for the sake of staying on topic, portability is exactly it. As a key component, it has to be small, not suck battery too much, light, comfortable, etc., to enable portable play. Within the context of those design goals, and the portable tech required, it was quite modernized at release.
That isn’t what you said at first, though. You implied that portability couldn’t be modern or cutting edge, because of a comparison to consoles. That’s just not the case. Your latest Android is as cutting edge as your new PC, even if one is clearly more capable.
I mean, i troll switch and nintendo all the times but i was always impressed by the porting of wolfenstein or witcher etc.While I know you're being sarcastic I like the idea of that. Always loved seeing how far handhelds go, ever sense the GBA and PSP.
I'm honestly curious about the Tegra Orin more so than the Xavier however, sense it'll be using Ampere for it's CUDA cores.
Nintendo is (re)joining the power wars!!
I mean, i troll switch and nintendo all the times but i was always impressed by the porting of wolfenstein or witcher etc.
It's just that i use the switch only as a home console, so the magic of having these big titles on a crappy tablet does nothing for me because i don't use it as a tablet.
I guess that for people who use it as a portable, having ps4 level of grqphics is pretty incredible
That depends on the form factor."intuitive to users" and "Battery life" suggests they'd be looking at more energy efficient tech and added functionality. Greater battery life alone would prohibit the current power race as that tech would suck a battery dry in minutes, not hours
Devil's advocate: it's also relatively powerful given its price and form factor. It's the most powerful dedicated handheld by a fair margin.Cutting edge doesn't mean powerful. The Switch was effectively cutting edge for its price and form factor at the time.
And the screen will pop open at the push of a button. I give you... the Switch: Blade!Cutting edge technology...
Switch 2 will be a phone that folds
Yes, battery power.
No it doesn't, but the statement, "previously used to look at conventional tech that enabled a lower price and appeal to users."Cutting edge doesn't mean powerful. The Switch was effectively cutting edge for its price and form factor at the time.
Nintendo needs to be very careful here. Every time they move even a bit towards the cutting-edge, being like competitors, or higher prices, it seems to come with varying levels of problems.
Their audience very much loves an affordable Nintendo, focused on making a variety of games that aren’t exclusively visual showcases/intense 3D games, and doing new things within that framework.
That said, these tweets are always super vague and written in the moment. People should wait for the full transcript to come out before presuming too much.
Affordable and Nintendo dont belong in the same place
They have literally the most greediest business plan on games, selling 3 year old games for full price because 3rd party devs rarely want to do big AAA-games for Nintendo, because their hardware is so weak + their fan base rather buy same games over and over again instead of something else.
Doing new things = port wii u games, copy&paste same mario kart, smash, 3d mario, yoshi and zelda over and over again. Selling same old classics for 10th time.
Selling the slowest, cheapest to manufacture and worst acceptable quality hardware on highest premium price possible, cutting costs from memory, screens, SoC as much as possible.
No, they are not being affordable.
They are "one hit wonder" repeating their strategy of same kind of 1st party games that sell to certain audience like hot cakes without needing really to innovate on low quality hardware with premium pricing.
what is really affordable?
PS4 or Xbone + good games for 5-20€ on regular sales. And those consoles are cheaper or same price than switch.
Switch costs 350€ and 200€ for lite, are you seriously calling that affordable? Not forgetting expensive joycons + other stuff they do.
But yeah, they are not going to go for the power race as it is not their thing and they would not be able to compete against playstation on "big boys league". So they should do what they are good at, nothing wrong in that.
Don’t give them ideas, lol. Interest in such a machine is probably extremely limited compared to what the Switch launched as.The Switch Pro will be available to purchase for four months. After that, it will be removed from shelves.
Ah, yes the joy cons. Already repaired multiple with always the same problem (actually all joycons we have and those of friends). Drifting issues. At least this is easy to fix (but a bit more complicated because of shorter cables in the first wave of joy-cons). But they really have a serious problem with that....
Switch costs 350€ and 200€ for lite, are you seriously calling that affordable? Not forgetting expensive joycons + other stuff they do.
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