Media NINTENDO SWITCH (new console)

[izeroi]

Gotta get season pass for Zelda.

A must for any Zelda fan.

 

[simsim90]

Zelda season pass. Nintendo finally succumbed. Cant believe that 'hard mode' is bloody DLC.

 

[Rulk]

It's only a little bit more powerful than the Wii U, since it's mobile it's sacrificing a lot of power for that mobility. Which is a big problem because it means that developers will have the same issue of having to do significant amounts of work to get multiplatform games running on it. For example, Skyrim is coming for it, but it's not the enhanced edition.

it's roughly 4 times more powerful than the Wii U

about par with the XBOX One

Fox Conn Employee leaked the hardware performance specs. It's more powerful than the Apple IPad Pro

"The Switch's reported use of the custom Maxwell Tegra means the console will have more than 1 teraflop of performance, VentureBeat reports. This would be well below Project Scorpio (6 teraflops), the PS4 Pro (4.2 teraflops), the standard PS4 (1.8 teraflops), and the standard Xbox One (1.3 teraflops)."

What you have to remember is undocked the Switch only has to display on a 6 inch screen. When it is docked it has a performance boost.

I believe the Switch is 1.024 Teraflops for a handheld is pretty powerful

XBox One is 1.3 Teraflops

Switch can be overclocked to 2 Ghz

It should be able to handle this gen's 3rd party titles

Games I'd love to play on the Switch (which I think could easily be ported over)

- Injustice 2
- Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite
- Resident Evil 7
- Mass Effect 4
- Kingdom Hearts 3
- South Park Fractured But Whole
- Red Dead Redemption
- Street Fighter V

if Nintendo cant attract these developers the system will be DOA like the Wii U

 

[simsim90]

it's roughly 4 times more powerful than the Wii U

about par with the XBOX One

Fox Conn Employee leaked the hardware performance specs. It's more powerful than the Apple IPad Pro

"The Switch's reported use of the custom Maxwell Tegra means the console will have more than 1 teraflop of performance, VentureBeat reports. This would be well below Project Scorpio (6 teraflops), the PS4 Pro (4.2 teraflops), the standard PS4 (1.8 teraflops), and the standard Xbox One (1.3 teraflops)."

What you have to remember is undocked the Switch only has to display on a 6 inch screen. When it is docked it has a performance boost.

I believe the Switch is 1.024 Teraflops for a handheld is pretty powerful

XBox One is 1.3 Teraflops

Switch can be overclocked to 2 Ghz

It should be able to handle this gen's 3rd party titles

Games I'd love to play on the Switch (which I think could easily be ported over)

- Injustice 2
- Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite
- Resident Evil 7
- Mass Effect 4
- Kingdom Hearts 3
- South Park Fractured But Whole
- Red Dead Redemption
- Street Fighter V

if Nintendo cant attract these developers the system will be DOA like the Wii U

I can see Street Fighter and Kingdom Hearts. I cannot see anything else being ported. The Switch would struggle especially with the utilisation of HDR. The Switch would struggle undocked.

 

[simsim90]

You are also forgetting the Switch doesnt run 1 teraflop undocked. It runs at 60% so round it up to 0.65 teraflops at a maximum of 720p at 30fps and expected 3 hour battery life.

 

[Rulk]

Those performance specs are undocked out putting at 720p

Most people won't notice a difference in visuals with screens less than 60 inches

HDR is irrelevant for tvs smaller than 60 inches same with supposed "4K" resolution

Switch is a powerful console

Take it from product testers at FOX CONN

It isn't supposed to be a primary home console it performs way better as a tablet

 

[darthviper107]

You're going to be sorely disappointed if you're expecting something that powerful in a $300 tablet

 

[Ash Housewares]

Lol. Sorry, no where near an xbone one. It can only run Zelda at 900p docked for a start.

 

[Rulk]

Zelda on the Switch looks way better than every XBOX one launch title..

And in all fairness it was developed on the Wii U architecture and ported over

Xbox one is a four year old console

The nvidia chip is custom made, the switch would have heat issues if it had the same architecture as Microsoft and Sony

4GB VRAM is dedicated to those monstrous OS's

I believe there's untapped power in the console that will take years to utilize. The 3DS killed Sonys vita and clearly Nintendo utilized the hardware far better than Sony (and apparently Apple / Samsung)

 

[Rulk]

Killer Instinct (launch title) ran at 900p on the XBOX one

Until it was finally patched

No frame drop inZelda btw

 

[darthviper107]

Ryse looks better than Zelda, and Zelda has had some noticeable performance issues

 

[Centurion]

LOL at all the teraflops and resolution tech talk. It makes my head gigahurtz.

The Switch needs Nintendo's exclusive titles. It's the reason we even think of playing a "Nintendo" in the first place.
It's all about gameplay.
I still say the Wii U was a failure because of the lack of Nintendo support. NOT because it had weaker technical performance.
Nintendo allowed that system to fail.

Forget about trying to compete with Microsoft and Sony.
There's no way the latest portable device can compete with the latest home console. The latter doesn't have to be concerned with power consumption to the same degree as a portable.

The Switch will need everything in Nintendo's library to be successful.
Bring all those popular franchises to this unit, and some new ones (they did a great job with Splatoon!) and it will exceed the Wii U in sales.

 

[Chapter 2099]

LOL at all the teraflops and resolution tech talk. It makes my head gigahurtz.

The Switch needs Nintendo's exclusive titles. It's the reason we even think of playing a "Nintendo" in the first place.
It's all about gameplay.
I still say the Wii U was a failure because of the lack of Nintendo support. NOT because it had weaker technical performance.
Nintendo allowed that system to fail.

Forget about trying to compete with Microsoft and Sony.
There's no way the latest portable device can compete with the latest home console. The latter doesn't have to be concerned with power consumption to the same degree as a portable.

The Switch will need everything in Nintendo's library to be successful.
Bring all those popular franchises to this unit, and some new ones (they did a great job with Splatoon!) and it will exceed the Wii U in sales.

That's what I'm hoping for. They need a few big games coming out every season to help keep interest. None of this 'go for 6-12 months without a big title.'

 

[darthviper107]

I don't know why they aren't flooding it with rereleases of all the good Wii U games, even though they're out most people haven't played them. Though they don't have all that many games coming out early on, at least Zelda is significant compared to pretty much nothing for the Wii U until it got Pikmin 3 many months later.

 

[Chapter 2099]

I don't know why they aren't flooding it with rereleases of all the good Wii U games, even though they're out most people haven't played them. Though they don't have all that many games coming out early on, at least Zelda is significant compared to pretty much nothing for the Wii U until it got Pikmin 3 many months later.

That's why I POd MK8.

 

[Chapter 2099]

Someone got a Switch early. Made a video of the OS. Pretty dope.

Looks like about 25-26GB left after OS installation.

 

[DinoDB1975]

Yup. Here's a link:

https://kotaku.com/guy-gets-switch-two-weeks-early-shows-off-ui-1792450851

 

[Chapter 2099]

Yup. Here's a link:

https://kotaku.com/guy-gets-switch-two-weeks-early-shows-off-ui-1792450851

I'm falling in love with this thing.

I put my PS4 and games up for sale today (in the For Sale threads for those interested.)

 

[alexds95]

Yup. Here's a link:

https://kotaku.com/guy-gets-switch-two-weeks-early-shows-off-ui-1792450851

Wow.. that is seriously beautiful. Wonderfully understated.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A using Tapatalk

 

[Captain Clown]

I don't know why they aren't flooding it with rereleases of all the good Wii U games, even though they're out most people haven't played them. Though they don't have all that many games coming out early on, at least Zelda is significant compared to pretty much nothing for the Wii U until it got Pikmin 3 many months later.

So far it seems like that's the case.




Yes, I know Splatoon 2 is a "new game", but it looks pretty much the same as the first one.

And there's no way the Switch will go without a port of Sm4sh or a new installment in the series altogether. To be fair, those are pretty much the only Wii U games that have "depth", unless you want Star Fox Zero, Captain Toad, and Pikmin 3 to be ported to the Switch.

A remaster of Bayonetta 2 would be cool tho.