Can't wait for the reactions when Switch 2 is $449 for the entry model.
Gotta keep the riff-raft out somehow, right? Right?
Can't wait for the reactions when Switch 2 is $449 for the entry model.
Given how GPU prices have gone up, I wouldn't be surprised.Can't wait for the reactions when Switch 2 is $449 for the entry model.
we're gonna see this pushed to the limits with Cyberpunk RT OverdriveAlex Battaglia from Digital Foundry mentioned that DLSS 3 only starts to become beneficial when the game runs at ~80 fps (I assume the game has to run at ~40 fps before taking into account DLSS 3).
So there's a patent from Nintendo that USPTO published today titled "Electronic Device" with document ID "US 20230007388 A1". So from here, type "nintendo" and click on the first result.
I was embarrassingly informed about this from the video below.
So there's a patent from Nintendo that USPTO published today titled "Electronic Device" with document ID "US 20230007388 A1". So from here, type "nintendo" and click on the first result.
I was embarrassingly informed about this from the video below.
Please stop, Polygon is only speculating in his postWhat? Why are you acting so weird? Just tell us if its not happening anymore (IF you had contacts in the first place ofc)…
So there's a patent from Nintendo that USPTO published today titled "Electronic Device" with document ID "US 20230007388 A1". So from here, type "nintendo" and click on the first result.
I was embarrassingly informed about this from the video below.
Looks like the patent for the OLED model.And was the content of the patent?
a mod already addressed the post. Should've just left it at that. We don't need to bring that crap to the new page in the midst of an on-topic convo.Please stop, Polygon is only speculating in his post
I wonder how many studios these 11 devs represent. it has to be at least two, with multiple people of the 11 being from ZyngaGiven this, it was very impressive that Bloomberg was able to get 11 developers to confirm the existence dev kits.
So there's a patent from Nintendo that USPTO published today titled "Electronic Device" with document ID "US 20230007388 A1". So from here, type "nintendo" and click on the first result.
I was embarrassingly informed about this from the video below.
99 out of 100 times this will be the case, yes.Patents can be withheld and shown after a date, even the day of, the product releasing.
Unless I missed it, if you see a patent published to the public before something is released, it’s not for the thing you have in mind.
So, this isn’t anything of note for the next system.
I thought the die was big as far as I can recall.No, they can't. It won't work. If they release a TV only version first, then the handheld version has to either 1) run the same as the TV only version while in handheld mode or 2) not be able to run games that were made before the handheld version came out.
If they do #1, it won't be cheaper. If they do #2, they might as well use a totally different chip, like they did for years with their separate handheld and console lines.
If they're going to do #1, the best bet is to wait several years for what's called a die shrink. If they're going to do a die shrink, there is no need to make the TV only version small enough for portable mode.
If a TV only version is coming it will not come before the handheld version. It will come out at the same time or after.
Is the only new/unreleased thing here the wheel accessory?Looks like it's a patent application for the new speaker arrangement in the OLED model. This is dependent on a Japanese patent filed in June 2021.
What wheel accessory?Is the only new/unreleased thing here the wheel accessory?
There's a revised filing for a Joy-con Wheel but I honestly couldn't tell you what's different about it.. looks like maybe the actual chamber for holding the Joy-cons is a different shape? I don't own a wheel to compare to it.What wheel accessory?
It seems that the video is covering two patents. The second one is for a Joy-Con Wheel (which released a long time ago):What wheel accessory?
I'm fully expecting it.Can't wait for the reactions when Switch 2 is $449 for the entry model.
That's the Joy-Con Wheel. I have 2.Is the only new/unreleased thing here the wheel accessory?
There's a revised filing for a Joy-con Wheel but I honestly couldn't tell you what's different about it.. looks like maybe the actual chamber for holding the Joy-cons is a different shape? I don't own a wheel to compare to it.
It seems that the video is covering two patents. The second one is for a Joy-Con Wheel (which released a long time ago):
Yeah I used my TV’s middle “smoothing mode” for Mario Rabbids 2 and for something that slow paced it felt pretty good. It’s a no go for anything where input response time is needed though and the image struggles and almost tears with large, fast 3D camera movements. Still it’s very impressive for a built in TV mode imo.I'm more open to so-so image interpolation than most (and am interested in how low the requirements might be for FSR3), but I think that's a bad idea. Everything we've seen about frame interpolation says it gets worse the fewer frames you start out with. I think for some slower paced content you could still get away with 30->60, where visual anomalies wouldn't matter as much and quick reaction time isn't important. I liked using my TVs built-in smoothing for Great Ace Attorney. I could see it for a Dragon Quest or a Fire Emblem, maybe Animal Crossing. But a fast-paced action game like Mario? It's gotta be better.
I do fear the game leaking early somehow (a physical copy maybe in March) and it obviously won’t have the day one patch meaning essentially a game months away from completion I hope I’m wrong.I believe the one we saw was European, so, hmm. Can't be sure it's in Europe yet.
Don‘t see Nintendo risking shipping physical copies of TOTK this early.I do fear the game leaking early somehow (a physical copy maybe in March) and it obviously won’t have the day one patch meaning essentially a game months away from completion I hope I’m wrong.
we don't know how big the die is. it's probably big on 8nm, but not prohibitively soI thought the die was big as far as I can recall.
Because of that, I thought of that possibility. If the die is small, then it wouldn't make sense for a home console as you says.
Digital copies of Switch games have been consistently leaking before launch for the past few years due to a technical loophole that is part of the launch Switch's software. We can absolutely expect leaked copies in the wild at least a week in advance to launch.I do fear the game leaking early somehow (a physical copy maybe in March) and it obviously won’t have the day one patch meaning essentially a game months away from completion I hope I’m wrong.
Yeah I’d expect a week or two leaks for most big games because certain countries just don’t care one bit about physical street dates. My fear is TotK leaks in early March, then people are emulating it at 4k/60 two months before it even launches on Switch.Digital copies of Switch games have been consistently leaking before launch for the past few years due to a technical loophole that is part of the launch Switch's software. We can absolutely expect leaked copies in the wild at least a week in advance to launch.
I don't believe the other special edition OLED Model Switches came with a download code or anything, so I doubt that. You just buy the console and game seperately. If that box is real, it would have mentioned the inclusion of the game on it.Yeah I’d expect a week or two leaks for most big games because certain countries just don’t care one bit about physical street dates. My fear is TotK leaks in early March, then people are emulating it at 4k/60 two months before it even launches on Switch.
Surely these bundles (if they’re even real) have digital codes for the game to claim it from the eshop? Hopefully Nintendo don’t put it on their servers until the last possible moment before official release to at least mitigate the leaks by a week or two.
This also looks like a pretty story heavy Zelda game so leaks and spoilers would be super annoying.
Darn i was just about to have some hope we finally have some tangible proof this next system is real and like always it shot down in seconds smh
The patent that was made public today but it is only about the OLEDWhat are you referring to ?
We don't actually know the die size, we know how many cores are in the GPU. The number of cores in the GPU is ... weird.I thought the die was big as far as I can recall.
Because of that, I thought of that possibility. If the die is small, then it wouldn't make sense for a home console as you says.
Ah my bad. I just assumed it was a bundle.I don't believe the other special edition OLED Model Switches came with a download code or anything, so I doubt that. You just buy the console and game seperately. If that box is real, it would have mentioned the inclusion of the game on it.
Are you expecting Samsung 4nm for Drake?I am fairly convinced that the "delay" actually is caused by a node shrink. It's just a node shrink that decided 14+ months ago, along with all the decisions that come with.
The wild "Drake is node shrunk Dane" theory neatly explains almost every weird bit of info we've heard.
Nintendo wants a more powerful Switch, they go to Nvidia, take a look at the Orin plans and see a DLSS demo. A 2x power increase is inline with the last three Nintendo generations, and 2-3x more power plus 4K hardware was the exact strategy for the midgen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Dane is exactly the device you would have expected if you had asked @Thraktor for predictions at the time. Its 4SMs, decent clock speed, it's got tensor cores for DLSS, it even has RT cores.
Devkits are out in 2021 with devs told to "make their games 4k ready". According to Nate, the upgrade is a 4k focused pro model, based on what he's heard from developers, and he expects a "real" next gen a few years later. 2022-2023 window seems consistent from multiple sources.
The problem is Dane sucks. 4 tensor cores at mobile clock speeds is barely enough power for DLSS 2. 4 Ampere SM is a solid 2.5x power upgrade over Switch, but you can't do anything with that extra power, because you spend it all trying to get frame time down to let DLSS 2 run. The RT is vestigial at that point. But pushing clock speeds or SMs any higher, and the battery life and heat get out of control.
Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
New Plan: Drake. The Tegra team will take Dane, triple it, and die shrink it. It'll be Nintendo's true next gen upgrade, and it will give Nvidia a second 5nm product they can use to buffer demand. Nvidia makes TSMC 5nm purchases in December of 2021, and the in-dev NVN2 is updated to use Drake's SOC information. Only a vestigial reference to Dane remains.
Which leaks in Spring of this year. Insiders and observant outsiders are all agog. How do they fit 12 SMs on Samsung 8nm? Where is the modest 4k Switch update? Surely something is up. Half the SMs in handheld mode? No CPU upgrade?
These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
I'm not sure how literally we're meant to take this whole thing so I'll defer making every comment I could make. But:I am fairly convinced that the "delay" actually is caused by a node shrink. It's just a node shrink that decided 14+ months ago, along with all the decisions that come with.
The wild "Drake is node shrunk Dane" theory neatly explains almost every weird bit of info we've heard.
Nintendo wants a more powerful Switch, they go to Nvidia, take a look at the Orin plans and see a DLSS demo. A 2x power increase is inline with the last three Nintendo generations, and 2-3x more power plus 4K hardware was the exact strategy for the midgen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Dane is exactly the device you would have expected if you had asked @Thraktor for predictions at the time. Its 4SMs, decent clock speed, it's got tensor cores for DLSS, it even has RT cores.
Devkits are out in 2021 with devs told to "make their games 4k ready". According to Nate, the upgrade is a 4k focused pro model, based on what he's heard from developers, and he expects a "real" next gen a few years later. 2022-2023 window seems consistent from multiple sources.
The problem is Dane sucks. 4 tensor cores at mobile clock speeds is barely enough power for DLSS 2. 4 Ampere SM is a solid 2.5x power upgrade over Switch, but you can't do anything with that extra power, because you spend it all trying to get frame time down to let DLSS 2 run. The RT is vestigial at that point. But pushing clock speeds or SMs any higher, and the battery life and heat get out of control.
Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
New Plan: Drake. The Tegra team will take Dane, triple it, and die shrink it. It'll be Nintendo's true next gen upgrade, and it will give Nvidia a second 5nm product they can use to buffer demand. Nvidia makes TSMC 5nm purchases in December of 2021, and the in-dev NVN2 is updated to use Drake's SOC information. Only a vestigial reference to Dane remains.
Which leaks in Spring of this year. Insiders and observant outsiders are all agog. How do they fit 12 SMs on Samsung 8nm? Where is the modest 4k Switch update? Surely something is up. Half the SMs in handheld mode? No CPU upgrade?
These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
Seems to be a few inconsistencies here.I am fairly convinced that the "delay" actually is caused by a node shrink. It's just a node shrink that decided 14+ months ago, along with all the decisions that come with.
The wild "Drake is node shrunk Dane" theory neatly explains almost every weird bit of info we've heard.
Nintendo wants a more powerful Switch, they go to Nvidia, take a look at the Orin plans and see a DLSS demo. A 2x power increase is inline with the last three Nintendo generations, and 2-3x more power plus 4K hardware was the exact strategy for the midgen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Dane is exactly the device you would have expected if you had asked @Thraktor for predictions at the time. Its 4SMs, decent clock speed, it's got tensor cores for DLSS, it even has RT cores.
Devkits are out in 2021 with devs told to "make their games 4k ready". According to Nate, the upgrade is a 4k focused pro model, based on what he's heard from developers, and he expects a "real" next gen a few years later. 2022-2023 window seems consistent from multiple sources.
The problem is Dane sucks. 4 tensor cores at mobile clock speeds is barely enough power for DLSS 2. 4 Ampere SM is a solid 2.5x power upgrade over Switch, but you can't do anything with that extra power, because you spend it all trying to get frame time down to let DLSS 2 run. The RT is vestigial at that point. But pushing clock speeds or SMs any higher, and the battery life and heat get out of control.
Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
New Plan: Drake. The Tegra team will take Dane, triple it, and die shrink it. It'll be Nintendo's true next gen upgrade, and it will give Nvidia a second 5nm product they can use to buffer demand. Nvidia makes TSMC 5nm purchases in December of 2021, and the in-dev NVN2 is updated to use Drake's SOC information. Only a vestigial reference to Dane remains.
Which leaks in Spring of this year. Insiders and observant outsiders are all agog. How do they fit 12 SMs on Samsung 8nm? Where is the modest 4k Switch update? Surely something is up. Half the SMs in handheld mode? No CPU upgrade?
These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
Nvidia implies that Drive Thor features an Ada Lovelace based GPU.Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
No, considering oldpuck mentioned having Drake fabricated using the same process nodes used for other Nvidia products allows Nvidia to temporarily shift capacity without losing securements of process node capacity. And as far as I know, there are no products from Nvidia fabricated using Samsung's 4 nm** process node.Are you expecting Samsung 4nm for Drake?
I am fairly convinced that the "delay" actually is caused by a node shrink. It's just a node shrink that decided 14+ months ago, along with all the decisions that come with.
The wild "Drake is node shrunk Dane" theory neatly explains almost every weird bit of info we've heard.
Nintendo wants a more powerful Switch, they go to Nvidia, take a look at the Orin plans and see a DLSS demo. A 2x power increase is inline with the last three Nintendo generations, and 2-3x more power plus 4K hardware was the exact strategy for the midgen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Dane is exactly the device you would have expected if you had asked @Thraktor for predictions at the time. Its 4SMs, decent clock speed, it's got tensor cores for DLSS, it even has RT cores.
Devkits are out in 2021 with devs told to "make their games 4k ready". According to Nate, the upgrade is a 4k focused pro model, based on what he's heard from developers, and he expects a "real" next gen a few years later. 2022-2023 window seems consistent from multiple sources.
The problem is Dane sucks. 4 tensor cores at mobile clock speeds is barely enough power for DLSS 2. 4 Ampere SM is a solid 2.5x power upgrade over Switch, but you can't do anything with that extra power, because you spend it all trying to get frame time down to let DLSS 2 run. The RT is vestigial at that point. But pushing clock speeds or SMs any higher, and the battery life and heat get out of control.
Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
New Plan: Drake. The Tegra team will take Dane, triple it, and die shrink it. It'll be Nintendo's true next gen upgrade, and it will give Nvidia a second 5nm product they can use to buffer demand. Nvidia makes TSMC 5nm purchases in December of 2021, and the in-dev NVN2 is updated to use Drake's SOC information. Only a vestigial reference to Dane remains.
Which leaks in Spring of this year. Insiders and observant outsiders are all agog. How do they fit 12 SMs on Samsung 8nm? Where is the modest 4k Switch update? Surely something is up. Half the SMs in handheld mode? No CPU upgrade?
These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
I couldn't help but laugh when I learned x nm doesn't actually mean the node is x nm in length. Marketing buzzwords have even taken over scientific units of measurement** → a marketing nomenclature used by all foundry companies
I think it's supposed to mean the smallest element in the transistors made has that length. And I think that was true for a while, but for whatever reason they kept going with the names while the laws of physics prevented them from making actual elements smaller.I couldn't help but laugh when I learned x nm doesn't actually mean the node is x nm in length. Marketing buzzwords have even taken over scientific units of measurement
I believe most of this is true, except for the part that incomplete games will be exclusives, Nintendo is not going to throw 130M installed base away to hype a console that simply won't be able to keep up with demand for 2 years. I believe third party exclusives, and 4K/60 for Nintendo games are more than enough.I am fairly convinced that the "delay" actually is caused by a node shrink. It's just a node shrink that decided 14+ months ago, along with all the decisions that come with.
The wild "Drake is node shrunk Dane" theory neatly explains almost every weird bit of info we've heard.
Nintendo wants a more powerful Switch, they go to Nvidia, take a look at the Orin plans and see a DLSS demo. A 2x power increase is inline with the last three Nintendo generations, and 2-3x more power plus 4K hardware was the exact strategy for the midgen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Dane is exactly the device you would have expected if you had asked @Thraktor for predictions at the time. Its 4SMs, decent clock speed, it's got tensor cores for DLSS, it even has RT cores.
Devkits are out in 2021 with devs told to "make their games 4k ready". According to Nate, the upgrade is a 4k focused pro model, based on what he's heard from developers, and he expects a "real" next gen a few years later. 2022-2023 window seems consistent from multiple sources.
The problem is Dane sucks. 4 tensor cores at mobile clock speeds is barely enough power for DLSS 2. 4 Ampere SM is a solid 2.5x power upgrade over Switch, but you can't do anything with that extra power, because you spend it all trying to get frame time down to let DLSS 2 run. The RT is vestigial at that point. But pushing clock speeds or SMs any higher, and the battery life and heat get out of control.
Nvidia has its own challenges. The GPU market tanks, and it's clear that Lovelace is gonna be pricey. Ampere is going to stay around for a while. Meanwhile, the Tegra team that staffed up in 2019 has nothing to do - Atlan has been cancelled, and its replacement, Thor, has to wait until Blackwell's design is finalized before they can really get to work.
New Plan: Drake. The Tegra team will take Dane, triple it, and die shrink it. It'll be Nintendo's true next gen upgrade, and it will give Nvidia a second 5nm product they can use to buffer demand. Nvidia makes TSMC 5nm purchases in December of 2021, and the in-dev NVN2 is updated to use Drake's SOC information. Only a vestigial reference to Dane remains.
Which leaks in Spring of this year. Insiders and observant outsiders are all agog. How do they fit 12 SMs on Samsung 8nm? Where is the modest 4k Switch update? Surely something is up. Half the SMs in handheld mode? No CPU upgrade?
These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
My guess:I think it's supposed to mean the smallest element in the transistors made has that length. And I think that was true for a while, but for whatever reason they kept going with the names while the laws of physics prevented them from making actual elements smaller.
Oh I know, it's this latter part I find funnyI think it's supposed to mean the smallest element in the transistors made has that length. And I think that was true for a while, but for whatever reason they kept going with the names while the laws of physics prevented them from making actual elements smaller.
Timelines and leaks don't support the existence of DaneI believe most of this is true, except for the part that incomplete games will be exclusives, Nintendo is not going to throw 130M installed base away to hype a console that simply won't be able to keep up with demand for 2 years. I believe third party exclusives, and 4K/60 for Nintendo games are more than enough.
I really love this narrative, even if it obviously can't be expected to be entirely accurate. In that vein, I have some opinions about what timing makes sense.These ideas keep getting shot down as more and more info comes out. Meanwhile, some devs are talking. Reports of "PS4 plus DLSS" are coming out, matching Drake. Insiders are starting to hear about changes, but after the OLED debacle, no one is willing to talk about it until every possible avenue is covered.
In October partners are briefed and it is ... mixed. The device is now Switch 2, the next generation and will receive a huge marketing push. And a longer one. Nintendo doesn't want to repeat the short marketing cycle of the Wii U, they want to thoroughly sell the device, and prepare users to upgrade. They need 6-8 months to do that, plus they need to get their software library into shape.
DK, Mario, and any other unannounced game that wasn't finished are now all Drake exclusives. Everything else needs a gorgeous cross-gen upgrade. Every second party studio without anything else to do has been handed a 4k remake or remaster. This will all take time. Nintendo is planning to announce in early 2023, and launch by the holiday.
Nintendo will be fine, the Switch is still selling okay, and software sales are solid. But third parties are burned, and after a major rethink and delay, they're not trusting Nintendo's late 2023 timeline. Some start to talk, and those leaks hit us...
Simply quoting this post for ease of discussion sake & am in no way commenting on the claim in the tweet itself; but there has been significant movement/communication in recent weeks to partners.
Investigating something that came up... I assume there wasn't any notion of cancellation or delay yet, but given where we are now the slow deafening of the murmurs in 2022 is of great interest to me.We definitely did, it was widely discussed - all three of us responded The source was Moore's Law Is Dead, who is widely ignored round here (and I utterly unfamiliar with), and it came up in late March. At the time Nate was planning his post Laspus$ podcast, which he said he was pursuing every avenue because he had no intention of covering it more than once. A few weeks after, when asked why the episode hadn't landed, Nate said
Something has come up concerning the subject matter & I want to investigate it further before addressing the topic. Releasing an episode & not investigating this particular bit of information would be ill-advised.
Make of that what you will