if nintendo's press release doesn't use the secret codename do they fail the shibboleth
Well thank you tonight I'll be less dumb than this morning. Did not know this funky word.
if nintendo's press release doesn't use the secret codename do they fail the shibboleth
Ditto. Just announcing the damn thing means companies can announce the multi-play games for it too, so we can have actual discussion again.This honestly is already all I want from them for now.
this is not a question I should ask on this thread but it always bothers me soMy TV is a 1080p TV as well, but it's only 42". Most manufactures don't even make 4K TVs that small, probably because the increased resolution is barely noticeable on smaller TVs. So the benefits of 4K largely depend on the size of your TV. If you have a TV 50 inches or less, 1080p will resolve a nice clean image, but if you have a 75" TV, things will start to look pretty soft.
avoids eye contactthis is not a question I should ask on this thread but it always bothers me so
who the fuck are all these people with giant TVs? where do they put them?
they sell a ton so they must exist but I literally do not understand
my 40-something tv is absolutely massive for my needs and takes up so much space. I donโt think a bigger tv would even fit in my apartment
this is not a question I should ask on this thread but it always bothers me so
who the fuck are all these people with giant TVs? where do they put them?
they sell a ton so they must exist but I literally do not understand
my 40-something tv is absolutely massive for my needs and takes up so much space. I donโt think a bigger tv would even fit in my apartment
โฆgated? โฆhmI have to sit 15 feet away from my TV as itโs gated away to stop my 3 year old daughter from touching it or getting too close to it to stare at it.
avoids eye contact
I'd be right there with you but quietly because I've spent like three years being insufferable about this thing and don't want to spend three more that wayI think I will join #team2026 when there is no new news on May 7th
I wouldn't be surprised if modern TVs do now, I don't have any 24fps content to test with mine. But the classic solution for broadcast television was the 3:2 pulldown.Aren't TV's supposed to have 24fps mode though? I have a several years old Philips LED TV and I remember that when watching 24fps content, the TV switches to 24fps mode, at least it says so in the screen. (1920x1080 24fps)
I grew up in the country, I live in the city. The poor people I grew up with have bigger TVs than rich people here, because even dilapidated trailers have more space to sit back from the TV and have it fill your viewing area like a theater, than condos do here.my 40-something tv is absolutely massive for my needs and takes up so much space. I donโt think a bigger tv would even fit in my apartment
damn itโs time for me to remember all the wild digital / true film shit I once knewAren't TV's supposed to have 24fps mode though? I have a several years old Philips LED TV and I remember that when watching 24fps content, the TV switches to 24fps mode, at least it says so in the screen. (1920x1080 24fps)
my brother toppled a crt on him when he was a kid because he was fucking around with the shelf. I don't blame folks for doing things to keep kids away, lolโฆgated? โฆhm
that's all the water we need to survive the desertNintendo on May 7th:
For our dedicated video game platform business, Nintendo is currently developing a successor to Nintendo Switch console. This new platform will launch in March 2025 globally. Please look forward to more details in the future.
Digital Foundry does another dive into PC handhelds with top end titles (Avatar, Burning Shores, Alan Wake 2). 25W continues to be the sweet spot to run all the games well, but Drake would not have this kind of power consumption. but it will have bespoke ports
Tensor core for DLSS, too.Also Drake is a more power efficient design than those, so 1 watt of Drake power can definitely not be compared 1:1.
1. its arm
2. probably better node.
3. More cores with lower clocks is more efficient than fewer cores with higher.
I don't know if I would go that far, but if we get past that with no news at all than I'm thinking later in 2025.I think I will join #team2026 when there is no new news on May 7th
I will never be #TeamH2, regardless of year.I don't know if I would go that far, but if we get past that with no news at all than I'm thinking later in 2025.
I think he doesnโt want his kid touching/hitting/pulling on a TV of any size. Seems sensible to me.so you got a bigger tv to sit a little further away from it so you could gate it off because you donโt want your kid to touch the fancy big tv
alright, thatโsโฆ one answer at least
my brother toppled a crt on him when he was a kid because he was fucking around with the shelf. I don't blame folks for doing things to keep kids away, lol
Digital Foundry does another dive into PC handhelds with top end titles (Avatar, Burning Shores, Alan Wake 2). 25W continues to be the sweet spot to run all the games well, but Drake would not have this kind of power consumption. but it will have bespoke ports
My family tv is a 48" LG OLED and 4K content is frighteningly realistic (Baby Reindeer, anyone?). Our gaming rig is somewhat larger .My TV is a 1080p TV as well, but it's only 42". Most manufactures don't even make 4K TVs that small, probably because the increased resolution is barely noticeable on smaller TVs. So the benefits of 4K largely depend on the size of your TV. If you have a TV 50 inches or less, 1080p will resolve a nice clean image, but if you have a 75" TV, things will start to look pretty soft.
Im looking forward the release of Strix Point, a cutdown from it (Probably called Z2 Extreme) is going to be amazing for the next generation of handhelds.
hey, DF just reviewed one with a 54W TDP45-65W handheld?
Strix Point shouldn't appear on handhelds, outside of some premium (=>$1000). Too big of a design for them.45-65W handheld?
That is what I am expecting. Either that or "The Switch is still in the middle of its lifespan. Stop asking us questions."Nintendo on May 7th:
For our dedicated video game platform business, Nintendo is currently developing a successor to Nintendo Switch console. This new platform will launch in March 2025 globally. Please look forward to more details in the future.
I wouldn't say I'm swimming in money, but I live in the suburbs and our space is such that we have a long wall and can fit a sizable TV and speakers. I've had some form of Home Theater since I was in high school, so the calculus is always 'how much screen can I reasonably fit in this space?'you
tell me
this isnโt a crusade I am literally just trying to understand
the answer can be โI wanted a tv the size of the moon because I thought itโd be cool and Iโm swimming in moneyโ โ Iโm just trying to imagine what these setups look like and how the fuck they work
that tracks, so long as space allows. I guess most of my trailer experience is with smaller onesI grew up in the country, I live in the city. The poor people I grew up with have bigger TVs than rich people here, because even dilapidated trailers have more space to sit back from the TV and have it fill your viewing area like a theater, than condos do here.
This comes off kinda rude tbh
Nintendo on May 7th :Nintendo on May 7th:
We're sorry, your Switch successor is in another castle.
We ran Juile Uhrman's comments into an algorithm and this is what it said.Nintendo on May 7th :
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I can actually comment on this specifically in regards to Deathloop on Steam Deck. I think it's a good 8/10 game with a terrible story but excellent gunplay (confidently the second-weakest Arkane game imo), but the more important thing to note is it as a demonstration of Switch 2 hardware. On Steam Deck specifically, I played it with medium settings preset and FSR enabled at 30fps and it ran pretty well overall. Not perfect, there was a fair few issues pertaining to it being Deathloop on a PC, but it was a good enough experience to the point that Microsoft would actually benefit from putting it on Switch 2. It's a good dark-horse option imo, especially as a technical showcase. I think Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush are the more likely two for obvious reasons, but I would be pretty happy about this.My Switch has been out of commission due to shipping problems with replacement controllers. Finally up to play some games, I decided it was time to play my first shooter since 1998 and finally try out Deathloop on my Steam Deck.
Consider this my dark horse candidate for the Switch 2 equivalent of Skyrim. On Deck the default settings aren't actually great. Everything is low, most effects are disabled, and it's still unstable in hitting 60fps. But the game has the best FSR 2 implementation I've seen on Deck. The 2x upscale looks great, near enough to native that I don't notice unless I'm looking for it, and the 4x upscale legitimately looks good, with only the turrets - which have ultra thin lasers that breakup into pixels in the middle distance - looking distracting.
4x upscaling allows me to hit 60fps+add some additional exterior lighting effects, and the game has RT ambient occlusion and the like as well in the PC version. It feels like an exceptionally attractive version of this game would be possible on Drake's hardware.
From a business perspective, this is Microsoft game that did well, but underperformed expectations a little, and for contractual reasons, launched on Playstation first. If I were Microsoft looking at ports that could go third party, I'd see a catalog title with zero negative impact to the brand. A game that plays in a genre that Nintendo doesn't really hit (Prime excepted, and even that's a stretch), that would sell well.
I don't think it's a layup, for lots of reasons, but seeing what FSR2 can do in a good implementation on something as small as the Steam Deck gets me more excited for what Drake could deliver. I didn't particularly care for how FSR/XeSS upscaling looking in Death Stranding, but this feels like free performance.
I mean in a senseAlso these big ol' TVs are one of the only things that has significantly beaten inflation over the years. It's not like 2005 when you had to pay $10+ grand for one.
you don't though. my 42" 4K tv was $250 and it was from a reputable brand (one of their lower end ones, but it comes with warranty)like you can still dig pretty far to snag a 30โ $200 tv if youโre willing to get a brand implied to burn out like a lightbulb
I mean, last Black Friday you could snag a 75" TV for between $500-700. That's not pocket change, but I place it in the same sort of 'shell out to upgrade every 6-8 years' category as, like, a game console.I mean in a sense
but inversely the โlow-cost functional tvโ range has blasted into incomprehensibility
like Iโm seeing โaffordable tvโ articles that start at $1000 and for the rest of us thatโs a massive shit flip
like you can still dig pretty far to snag a 30โ $200 tv if youโre willing to get a brand implied to burn out like a lightbulb
idk though
maybe I donโt fuckinโ know shit
I think of the "Skyrim slot" as much about "what third party port would Nintendo choose to feature in launch marketing." Skyrim wasn't just a good get, it helps sell the hybrid concept. Nintendo games on a Nintendo handheld, sure. "You will be playing Full Fat Open World RPGs on the plane" tells you what Nintendo was going for, in a way that first party games couldn't quite do.That said, I do think there's a lot of other very strong titles in Xbox's back catalogue that would benefit from a Switch 2 port. There's the ever-obvious Xbox 360 titles that still aren't on Switch like Fallout 3 and New Vegas etc., but there's also Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, even Ghostwire there's a whole bunch of stuff that would be excellent on the device that still isn't. Deathloop would probably be the best pick, but I just think it's a bit of a shame that other Xbox titles from their non-Xbox Game Studios subsidiaries haven't made the jump to Switch.
Cyberpunk or Elden Ring would be good Skyrim equivalents imo. Especially Elden Ring.I think of the "Skyrim slot" as much about "what third party port would Nintendo choose to feature in launch marketing." Skyrim wasn't just a good get, it helps sell the hybrid concept. Nintendo games on a Nintendo handheld, sure. "You will be playing Full Fat Open World RPGs on the plane" tells you what Nintendo was going for, in a way that first party games couldn't quite do.
I think everyone at this point sort of expects Nintendo's console to be "the best place to play last gen games" and the hybrid concept is no longer new. I don't know what Nintendo's pitch for this new console is, but (former) PS5 Exclusive says "this is a big upgrade" in a way that other ports don't.
this is not a question I should ask on this thread but it always bothers me so
who the fuck are all these people with giant TVs? where do they put them?
Giant TVs aren't really that giant, I think. When I went from 1080p60 to 4K120 I also wanted to increase the field of view, and so went from 42" to 55" in a room that's less than 15' on each side. The extra ~foot of height and width didn't cause it to overlap with anything else. Especially with as thin as they are, they don't start taking up much real volume unless adding in speakers or other devices in the same vicinity.like I get that itโs worse for video games when so many people only make tiny-ass interfaces but 15โ seems like the norm, no?
Not exactly down to the inch, but here's my room's general layout. 14'x9' seems pretty close, so I put it into a 1400x900 image. A cramped place, but works for sleeping/gaming/PCing.what the fuck are yโallโs floorplans
"That third party port featured in marketing" can be filled by a lot of titles and I still believe it'll be filled by [THAT BLACKLISTED POLISH GAME]. It makes a lot of sense given it's technical aspects, it's use of RT, and Nvidia seems to like using it in marketing everywhere, including in ray reconstruction recently. Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 would be good games to showcase also, though there's a lot less to show off in each title.I think of the "Skyrim slot" as much about "what third party port would Nintendo choose to feature in launch marketing." Skyrim wasn't just a good get, it helps sell the hybrid concept. Nintendo games on a Nintendo handheld, sure. "You will be playing Full Fat Open World RPGs on the plane" tells you what Nintendo was going for, in a way that first party games couldn't quite do.
I think everyone at this point sort of expects Nintendo's console to be "the best place to play last gen games" and the hybrid concept is no longer new. I don't know what Nintendo's pitch for this new console is, but (former) PS5 Exclusive says "this is a big upgrade" in a way that other ports don't.
I would say either Alan wake 2 or Baldur gate 3 would be good options, since those are highly acclaimed and NG exclusives.Cyberpunk or Elden Ring would be good Skyrim equivalents imo. Especially Elden Ring.
Not with that attitude. I used to have a 55" TV in a tiny studio apartment. I just generally haven't been especially worried about putting a ton of space between me and the TV.this is not a question I should ask on this thread but it always bothers me so
who the fuck are all these people with giant TVs? where do they put them?
they sell a ton so they must exist but I literally do not understand
my 40-something tv is absolutely massive for my needs and takes up so much space. I donโt think a bigger tv would even fit in my apartment
Those tv are so cheap it is because they constantly throw ads at you.like you can still dig pretty far to snag a 30โ $200 tv if youโre willing to get a brand implied to burn out like a lightbulb
idk though
maybe I donโt fuckinโ know shit
Back in February, it was widely reported that Nintendo was letting third-parties know that they made the call to internally delay the system from its original target (sometime in H2, most likely November) to the end of the fiscal year in March. Assuming whatever caused the delay didn't get worse somehow, March 2025 is the expected release month that Nintendo will (hopefully) announce on the 7th.Wait we ve got a semi confirmation for March 2025 from an insider?
Hdr will be the bigger upgrade, not the resolution, Iโve played switch games in auto hdr and they are a treat and a half in HDR at higher resolution on my little $400 TCL R646. The problem is that 4K TVs that have good 1000 nits HDR and local dimming start at $500 and only come from TCL and Hisense, the cheapest Samsung TV that has good HDR isnโt that much cheaper than a S90C QD-OLED ($1100), same with Sony and LG. So yeah you will be missing out on the amazingly colorful bright HDR on Switch 2 but most people will unfortunately even on 4K โHDRโ sets.adding to this that Iโm tech dweeb in a video game forum bubble and Iโm still at an โextremely good enough for meโ 1080p 60fps max lcd tv.
there are plenty of reasons not to be enthused about newer sets. Iโm riding this one out until it dies dies
so Iโm not even just an average consumer โ Iโm a relative enthusiast โ and 1080p consistently at 60fps on the Switch 2 would blow me away
Iโm really, truly not expecting it to even hit consistent 4k 60fps. I think @Concernt โs โgood enoughโ factor will definitely come into play.
but weโll see in a year or so!
I think we all would agree GTA6 would be the biggest possible get, but I question if Rockstar would move heaven and earth to make a port happen.I would say either Alan wake 2 or Baldur gate 3 would be good options, since those are highly acclaimed and NG exclusives.
But I think the best possible port to showcase what Nintendo is willing to do or even let itโs consumers know that their not fucking around with the third party would be GTA6, just with that you gain the trust and Awed of people from everywhere for the switch 2.
Like have that puppy be 1080/30 native, but upscale to 1440p would be nice and handheld mode might be 540p upscaled to 800-900p
Iโm slightly hopeful since Nintendo have been hiring people to handle the third party developers and I guess convince them to port their games.I think we all would agree GTA6 would be the biggest possible get, but I question if Rockstar would move heaven and earth to make a port happen.
I think a port would benefit Nintendo a lot more than it would benefit Rockstar, so it would take some serious convincing/ concessions from Nintendos side. Not sure they would go that far.
I had a feeling of what it is, but it is so hard to discuss, since it is banned. I mean it has everything that shows you it can outperform the PS4 in every way.I think of the "Skyrim slot" as much about "what third party port would Nintendo choose to feature in launch marketing." Skyrim wasn't just a good get, it helps sell the hybrid concept.
So I am not the only one."That third party port featured in marketing" can be filled by a lot of titles and I still believe it'll be filled by [THAT BLACKLISTED POLISH GAME]. It makes a lot of sense given it's technical aspects, it's use of RT, and Nvidia seems to like using it in marketing everywhere, including in ray reconstruction recently. Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 would be good games to showcase also, though there's a lot less to show off in each title.
There's other good technical showcases that might be a good for Nintendo specifically, like Marvel 1943 or Metal Gear Solid Delta, or they could just aim for "Very good games with a lot of content" like Metaphor: Refantazio (Yes I'm assuming the game will be good before launch, why do you ask?)
Regardless, Nintendo needs to show a modern game that's very liked and will sell a console just by being ported. Something like a big open world, a sandbox with a lot of potential for creativity, a highly replayable experience that anyone can enjoy..... so just tie it in with Minecraft, that'll sort it. /s
My two thoughts here are:adding to this that Iโm tech dweeb in a video game forum bubble and Iโm still at an โextremely good enough for meโ 1080p 60fps max lcd tv.
there are plenty of reasons not to be enthused about newer sets. Iโm riding this one out until it dies dies
so Iโm not even just an average consumer โ Iโm a relative enthusiast โ and 1080p consistently at 60fps on the Switch 2 would blow me away
Iโm really, truly not expecting it to even hit consistent 4k 60fps. I think @Concernt โs โgood enoughโ factor will definitely come into play.
but weโll see in a year or so!