dragonyeuw
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Company heavily invested in a product makes positive comment. Unprecedented.
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Venture Beat: Nvidia CEO believes Switch will blow you away
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-Pyromaniac-
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Nvidia CEO: This ones on Nintendo...
..............wat
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uh yeah your right.
Why did i think the Shield handheld and Shield TV were similar??
Graphics Horse
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The handheld predates x1 by a few years.
Funny thing is the Sheild TV's tiny motherboard looks like it's been ripped out of an ergonomic handheld that was never announced.
Davey Cakes
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Sounds like Switch will be a fun system to play games on.
That's all you have to take away from it.
People read too much into things and get all cynical. Just expect some simple and good Nintendo entertainment, and accept anything "impressive" about the hardware as a bonus. YMMV anyway, since gaming is an enthusiast pastime and is wholly subjective.
That's all you have to take away from it.
People read too much into things and get all cynical. Just expect some simple and good Nintendo entertainment, and accept anything "impressive" about the hardware as a bonus. YMMV anyway, since gaming is an enthusiast pastime and is wholly subjective.
Blackmarsh63
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" safe for young people, for children " Kiddie console confirmed.
This is my only concern. I sure hope Nintendo figured out Parental Controls finally and won't obstruct and wall off communications or make you jump through ridiculous hoops to be able to communicate as an adult with friends on this thing.
Don't screw up your online Nintendo, I'm all for the safety of children but there are better ways then what they have executed so far.
SHOULD that actually be true, this is why I'm glad I also own a PS4. I don't play on my PC much so I don't have to spend on a 3rd system yet, luckily but having both PS4 and Switch, I think, will cover the best of both worlds. ;D
I'm surprised by the amount of stuff they've crammed into the device, going by the patents, and I think I could be surprised by the power for the form factor combined with the price point. Considering a lots of details were already leaked about the device before the Switch reveal and I wasn't really impressed to see those things, but have come around to even be impressed by aspects of it nf how it all comes together.
I don't expect to be wowed by some secret functionality or the power beyond whatever we already know about it.
I don't expect to be wowed by some secret functionality or the power beyond whatever we already know about it.
But the software is always a given. Any Nintendo console will have Mario, Zelda and now Pokemon, Animal Crossing etc. There's no real surprises there. The hardware capabilities are what's actually interesting. Whether that be POWA level or direct-to-brain-comms or whatever.
For me I couldn't care less whether it's portable, or what the clocks are undocked. I want a beefy, interesting console that plays Nintendo and third party games.
Don't buy it.
Switch will likely be an interesting console by design, with few AAA 3rd party games, most middle tier 3rd party games from 3DS, indies and mobile games with proper controls + all Nintendo games on a single system, powered by all the control schemes you can think of.
You may have a pleasant surprise.
It's not being made by Samsung.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Yes, got confused.
Shield Portable: Tegra 4
Shield Tablet: Tegra K1
Shield TV: Tegra X1
iPad Air 2 SoC compares to the K1; the iPad Pro compares to the X1. The thing is that the iPad Pro is a device that costs $700, so again, a really unfair comparison. And you get two small controllers with every device.
As a handheld the Switch is really impressive, let's hope the battery life is good (who am I kidding, we will get 3 hours...), but not Xbox ONE impressive.
SuperSonic1305
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Friend codes are back!
To be fair, you didn't hear IBM go on about the WiiU or make page filling posts about the tech on their website. Nor did you hear DMP go on about the 3DS in a similar fashion. NVidia is admittedly a more show-offy company but still if there were embarrassing tech inside the Switch they wouldn't be saying squat.
Should be a remarkable piece of engineering that is more up to date than any Nintendo Console, however still falling short of the home console due to limiting tech. I have high hopes it impresses us in some way, though.
Should be a remarkable piece of engineering that is more up to date than any Nintendo Console, however still falling short of the home console due to limiting tech. I have high hopes it impresses us in some way, though.
Toadthemushroom
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Yup, iPad Pro is more expensive, though I wouldn't really use that as a comparison. The A9X in the iPad Pro (or A10 Fusion in iPhone 7, which seems to match or exceed A9X in performance) would probably cost as much to manufacture as the X1 in the Switch, and would be significantly cheaper than an equivalent Intel Core M if Apple were to use that cheap for instance in the Pro.
The problem is how Apple designs best-in-class mobile CPUs for performance and lack of throttling, but Apple only designs them for themselves -- theoretically Nintendo could stick an A9X into their own Switch device and it would still retail for $250. Nintendo's business model with Switch isn't going to afford them the same high margins as Apple can command with their devices (and Apple's progress is mostly enabled by economies of scale, DCI-P3 wouldn't have come to iPhone last year otherwise).
Sammy Samusu
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It's a Nintendo console so we already knew that a longtime ago. And it's not a bad thing. Not everyone is interested in shooting people in the head. ✌
zeioIIDX
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Omega Kirby
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Shocking he would say that
When has a CEO working together with another company said anything like "Meh, it's ok"
When has a CEO working together with another company said anything like "Meh, it's ok"
Beautiful and accurate post.
Literally, blow you away.
if this GIF was reversed, the caption would be "Nintendo Switch sucks" 😁
On topic: it's best to be stay grounded and not get too hyped about the quote. As it has been stated before, Nvidia is invested in the Switch so they would obviously praise it. The use of the word myopic is bad though, he should have just said "narrowly focussed" instead