Artistically, but none are anything out of the ordinary in the technical side. No way you can't compare them with Zelda/Xenoblade or a Galaxy on Wii hardware, they're ages ahead to the point I don't even consider them worth mentioning in this regard.
Whatever people are reacting to... I don't really care tbh, because the desired fidelity is literally part of what I was talking about. If i'm "simplifying" it is because figuring that out doesn't need a 300 page thesis or a bible full of statements, I'd just rather explain the main point right away as people here are supposed to know what I mean as a whole.
I've got a nice PC nowadays, gotta give this a try :O .As promised:
Obviously took these while doing the Gerudo section, but I'm happy to jump to any area to take screens if people are curious.
That title is colorful
after reading most of your comments I think I understand what you're saying.
Increasing production from some suppliers doesn't necessarily mean increasing production for the Switch. That's the kind of unsubstantiated leap Mochizuki often makes IMO.
Galaxy in HD gives Odyssey a run for its money visually. What they crafted on Wii was extraordinary, one of the best example of what a game could do on Wii when fully leveraging the TEV unit to create custom shaders. The texture scrolling also worked extremely well. The scale of Galaxy compared to Odyssey is night and day, but ignoring that fact, its easy to look at Galaxy on Switch and think it looks as good or better than Odyssey.
Nintendo will roll out their official forecast in April for the upcoming fiscal year. If suppliers are hearing about an increase in production, this would have to be enough of an increase make it worth mentioning. A few percentage points above the previous year would basically be considered a flat year over year expectation for orders. If Nintendo were playing orders that exceed a 10% increase year over year, that's enough to raise some eyebrows. A little over two months from now this will all be cleared up.
Nikkei made a similar claim I believe.
This Is a speculation thread , it will pick up if there are new things to talk about
Not to be that guy but "accepted"
It's hard to continue to post about the switch 2 when we haven't gotten a lot of new relevant information. The information we did receive did turn a lot of people off based on the speculated release time frame...until there is new information that proves otherwise, I just think people are taking a break from the thread.
Textures still suck but it is certainly clean and pretty.As promised:
Obviously took these while doing the Gerudo section, but I'm happy to jump to any area to take screens if people are curious.
What a doofus i am
I don't see any scenario where Nintendo sells hardware at a loss. I look at the specs and potential node this item is going to be fabricated on, and I don't see the first digit of the Switch 2's price being under a 4.
No, they meant excepted. Most have excepted defeat, which means they believe defeat to not be included in the category of prospective outcomes. Thus, proving that the majority believe that the Switch 2 is coming out in May, QED.
No, we are waiting for news to comment
I agree generally. I dont know the likely BOM of a Switch 2, but without the ability to lower the current price of the current Switch, I wonder I Nintendo would be inclined to go for more RAM or storage to provide some value and separation in pricing.
Although there's so much interesting topics and information in the SemiAnalysis article, I'm only going to quote a section from the SemiAnalysis article that's likely the most relevant with respect to Nintendo's new hardware.
Qualcomm & Samsung DTCO - Paper 27.4
At IEDM, Qualcomm and Samsung also talked about the DTCO used with the Snapdragon 888 on Samsung's 5LPE node. Qualcomm states that the smallest fin pitch (FP), CGP, metal pitches, and SRAM bitcells were used to achieve a 25% shrink over 7LPP. These changes can be seen in the Ultra High-Density library of 5LPE. However, these shrinks also came with increased risks to the process.
From the start to initial production, Samsung reduced defects by 60% and further reduced this to 2% of the baseline by high-volume manufacturing. 5LPE also experienced excellent yield improvement, faster than 10LPE and 7LPP. Part of this is also due to 5LPE being an incremental improvement over 7LPP.
Qualcomm and Samsung also worked together with DTCO to improve yield greatly, achieving 2.5x lower yield loss for operations at low voltages, which is the primary use case of mobile SoCs. They also reduced the number of defective devices by 9x, which is very significant.
Through continued DTCO, Qualcomm and Samsung also reduced the CPU power draw by 7% and total power by 3%. As process node scaling slows, DTCO will become more and more important to achieving desirable characteristics for chips.
Samsung also compared their 1st generation node, 5LPE, to their 2nd generation node, 5LPP. They showed it achieved a 5% higher performance at the same power. 5LPP is also used in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, although marketed under the name of 4LPX.
This was never clear. But we know Reggie did say they were profitable with at least 1 game sold (usually Nintendo 1st party) with iirc the Wii U or 3DS (im at work and can't quickly look it up) so I would guess that generation of Nintendo hardware wasn't exactly break even.
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I'd imagine the basic tier of NSO is what 80% or more of the install base is subbed too, and I can't see $20 a year being enough to offset hardware losses.
I don't think it's so much wind getting let out, but just that there isn't much to talk about. Thanks to the Nvidia hack, we know a lot about the hardware, and what we don't know has been discussed to hell and back. A lot of the discussion at this point comes down to release timing/marketing, which imo is the least interesting and important part of any product launch.
If it were to come out this year, I'd agree, but the later after 2023 it arrives, the greater the chances that it will be no more than $399 (since I don't believe Nintendo will keep improving it beyond the specs we know - what you see now is what you'll get whenever it comes out, 2023, 2024 or 2025...).
I agree it doesn't seem like it should drive massive revenue, though Nintendo seems to be getting $1B of revenue for Switch Online could potentially give Nintendo some wiggle room should it wish to use it in that manner.
Nope, the guy said he messed up
I am glad Nintendo has been partially shaking things up as of recently. It gets people out of their comfort zone.
Perhaps I'm not explaining myself clearly enough. While Nintendo's budgets will probably overall trend upwards for Drake exclusives, the idea that BotW would be the new floor, as you said before, is unfounded, and I think really misunderstands not only the factors at play but the strategic differences between how Nintendo and Sony manage their resources. Nintendo publishes a much wider variety of games at a wider variety of budgets, and what's needed to make a game look "good" for the hardware is going to vary wildly. They're not like Sony who pours such an ungodly amount of resources into a small number of hyper-detailed projects that they're starting to have to sell them again on PC to make back their investment.
(I believe this was a tongue-in-cheek response)
Yeah I'm just being a goof
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It's a big reach. Why would a hardware announcement mean they wouldn't attend E3? If the announcement came before, the hardware could be at E3. If the announcement came after, then it shouldn't have any bearing on E3 at all (and wouldn't fit with Kit's hunch that we'll find out the whole story soon).Ex-Nintendo Host Kit Ellis Says We May Find Out Why Nintendo's Skipping E3 "Sooner Rather Than Later"
Let the theories commence
I’ll use any mental gymnastics needed to think that this has something to do with a hardware announcement.
Ex-Nintendo Host Kit Ellis Says We May Find Out Why Nintendo's Skipping E3 "Sooner Rather Than Later"
Let the theories commence
I’ll use any mental gymnastics needed to think that this has something to do with a hardware announcement.
Well Sony/Microsoft are also skipping it looks like so they are not the odd person out.
They're probably thinking of the apparent 'deal' Nintendo got to get the tegra SoC, but that deal ended long ago and Switch didn't go up in price.
I guess the possibility would be that they would be having some kind of event later in the year ala the Switch October 2016 reveal, meanwhile since Zelda is releasing before E3, there isn't any other reason to have an E3 presence.
The classic way is just ALUs*Frequency.
It's only useful in this specific case. If I said that Nvidia was 1.3x as performant per-FLOP than AMD, no one would blink. But when I did the benchmarks (I included only one card in my original post) I found that the more predictive strategy was to look at the FP16/FP32 numbers. It comes out to about 1.3 in the end anyway, but only if you compare cards that are close to each other in power. The FLOP averaging is more predicative across big scales
Some of them already are. NAND flash prices have been down significantly and persistently since 2019. Retail RAM prices seem to indicate a mild cost decrease compared to what was new tech in 2017, as well.
