Thanks. Sounds like it would annoy me too much. I've never played the original and it looks really fun but I may aswell wait for a potential patch or it to just run better on Switch 2 at this point if we're going to have Switch 2 in our hands by late 2024.
No I don't think it ever got patched, also iirc part of the issue was the game using double buffering vsync instead of triple buffering meaning any slight dip would result in a signicant frame drop (while also having some areas sustaining more constant drops).
From a cursory glance at my TOTK cache with 11,158 shaders compiled, its about 410MB. but the shader cache size is very game dependent. Some games use more or less shaders.
Is it really a major burden on top of hosting the games and update files already?
no, I just don't think Nintendo would do it. Especially if they can get JIT shader conversion down to a reasonable level of stutter (if any)
If you have a tolerance for retro games already, then the original is very fun, and I don't think the added content of the remake is really worth it. The remake made some truly excellent gameplay updates - with only two "active" item slots, the game has you in the subscreen a lot. The remake fixes this, and adds some small tweaks to the combat which make it more pleasant.
The amount of people I have talked to who think this is how Ray tracing works is insane lol
It looks almost like a step backwards in some ways
I'm sure this is a controversial opinion here, but my wants and desires for Zelda artstyle has kinda changed. Don't get me wrong, I love the way Botw looks, really good blend of cell shading and a more grounded style. But I feel like this style has been developing since Skyward Sword, I know SS isn't exactly the same but it is pretty similar. Anyway, I think that because by the time the next game comes out, it will have probably been upwards of 15 years of Zelda going for this similar style, I just want them to try something different. I like the novelty of Zelda games' art changing, it just keeps things exciting. I won't lie, with Tears of the Kingdom I was becoming tired of the style because it's been in my head space literally since 2015 or whenever they revealed Zelda Wii U, and I was especially tired of the world by the end (though that's a different conversation).
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Wouldn't this just be ironed out without a Switch 2 patch because of the extra horse power on tap if Nintendo go backwards compatibility and take the Switch 1 clock limits off much like Sony did with PS4 Pro and PS5 when running native PS4 games?
no. not to mention it's absurdly broad. it could mean 50 billion different things. for Pokemon, Game Freak is already hiring for UE5 experience, but we don't know what that could be. for all we know it's for their Private Division gameI know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
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you literally just said it, no it's not credibleI know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
The only risk/concern we can have with MS/Sony moving forward is their willingness to abandon physical media -- but digital BC will be featured on their next-gen machines post Series/PS5. Of course, ditching physical media is and of itself its own talking point... when the time comes.
To follow up on this, Spawnwave posted a great video today demonstrating the issues with the e-shop. Steph Sterling also did a good video a few weeks ago that focuses specifically on the shovelware and briefly mentions the other problems that i'll also post, but I would say Spawnwave's video is much more focused on the performance/usability issues with the e-shop
Yeah. One day physical media will be gone. That’s still a ways away though.
It's not credible because Zippo isn't credible. How plausible or implausible things are is irrelevant. Implausible things happen all the time, plausible things fail to happen. Zippo is a conman and pathological liar. A stopped clock is right twice a day - Zippo isn't even a stopped clock, he's a random one.I know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
True, though it took years for people to realize they wanted physical ownership. Gaming faces the problem of: select physical releases are strictly keys to a digital copy.
pretty likely most games will see a boost in performance and resolution if their original versions had unstable framerate and dynamic resolution. So it should be the case for Link's Awakening.
he made a woule conspiracy theory, future first party Nintendo games would use just because Pikimin 4 e Yoshi Crafted World used this engine, i higly doubt Nintendo will change it internal engine for Unreal Engine, as he claim, EPD8 could do for the next 3D MarioI know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
Yoshi's Wooly World isn't on Switch.I know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
I think it's always going to be the generation immediately prior that's going to be the one to worry about. For the older stuff, actually doing the BC probably becomes easier thanks to just software emulation being good enough, plus fewer people caring if it is less than perfect since fewer people will be playing games that aren't recent. If Nintendo had a hardware port for it or had been using Nintendo Account 30 years ago, it'd be pretty easy for them to continue supporting NES/SNES/N64 BC indefinitely. If Steam Deck today can emulate Switch games decently, we can surely count on it not being a problem for Switch 3 even if they were to totally upend the hardware again.
For graphics, UE is just incredible and Pikmin 4 looks phenomenal.
The pic made me chuckleThanks for this straightforward explanation. I never fully understood shaders. Like I’d start looking them up then…
Yeah I thought about that being a problem as well, maybe it would put pressure on them to make the new system even better so people don't misuse the name lol I don't like the way Nintendo Swap sounds, so i would take my chances with SHIFT if they didn't want to use Switch 2. I really like Nintendo Nex, and Nintendo Neo
"graphics" don't need to use a specific engine to look great, as for why not use everything with UE I already explained they're more likely to truly squeeze everything out of the hardware by using their own engines while something like Unreal will always likely have some overhead due to being multipurpose.
I don't care about if nintendo uses unreal for their own games but making sure that UE5 games can easily be ported to their next console after the switch is going to be important.
Honestly, I think anything other than "Switch 2" would be a bad name.
because why spend the money when they can do everything themselves. Pikmin 4 looks great, yes, but it's also not doing anything that Nintendo's own engines haven't done. and it ignores why UE4 was used in the first place
That does bring up an interesting question. Was Pikmin 4 an internal Nintendo test on UE4 or was it picked because the engine powering Pikmin couldn't give them the results they wanted.
Pikmin 4 used Unreal Engine 4 since Pikmin 4 was probably outsourced to Eighting, with Nintendo EPD supervising.
Eighting had a massive hand in teh game and are very proficient in UE4. with a co-production like this, it's probably best to go with UE4
Quicky Quick :I know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
Unreal Engine 5 was literally one of the first things confirmed for the Switch (and its successor). If they hadn’t said it then, Nintendo and Nvidia would’ve certainly locked it in, as they had UE4 on board. It’s not worth worrying about. They’ll work with all of their partners and ensure what’s needed is there.
I don't want to sound rude but...I know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
OK, but that still does not answer the hypothetical. If you have such an excess of RAM that you can effectively use a giant piece of it as cache, does that not effectively (to use your analogy) remove cars from the highway altogether, by not forcing the GPU to recalculate certain repetitive tasks due to dumping them to make room in RAM for other in-bound calculations? And is that enough to make a single-channel RAM solution more effective? Because, again, the simplest way to improve traffic is taking cars off the road to begin with.
I know Zippo is Zippo and pretty unreliable...But do you think this is credible? Would have pretty big implications for future Nintendo titles if true. Especially for Pokemon.
An Epic Partnership Is Forming.
Nintendo obviously needs no introduction, and neither do Epic Games. It's interesting then, that the two haven't really had that much of a...
I don’t think Pikmin 4 is anything that Nintendo own engine couldn’t do. It’s just convenient since the team developing it has a lot of experience with UE. Plus you’re now relying on another party to optimize the engine to your console, which considering the state of early UE Switch games, might not be a high priority.
