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Nintendo hasn’t fucked with Geoff in any meaningful capacity in years, I doubt they’ll start now.
They need to see a rabbi named bill clinton.
I dunno what "meaningful" is defined as here, but they revealed an exclusive (Bayonetta Origins) just last year along with the Fire Emblem Engage expansion pass.
Is that meaningful for you? It doesn't touch that significance of a brand new hardware reveal.
An inside source of mine has told me the successor will be called Nintendo McSwitch.
I mean, a spin-off or a small franchise & DLC for a game in FE’s sales bracket coming out in a month aren’t exactly meaningful.
My point is that Nintendo more often then not announces stuff at TGA's. I'm not suggesting they'll reveal new hardware there, but outside of 2021, they've always had something. They've revealed new exclusive games (Bayonetta 3, Origins, Marvel Ultimate Alliance), new Smash dlc (Joker and Sephiroth), and general DLC (Engage DLC).
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People think low powered systems like Drake can make use of it. From the results I've seen, I disagree.
Because it's very likely that the NG Switch won't have DLSS 3 since we know it's mostly based on Ampere. I think that since FSR 3 is something that can be used appropriately to bring 35-45fps up to 60fps, it would be great for a "performance mode" option in 3rd party games for when the system is in docked mode.
I'd disagree, as long as the base framerate is over 35fps and V-Sync is enabled (when the game isn't Forspoken cough, cough), the smoothness is good, but the main problem is a small amount of input latency. A custom implementation like what FSR 2 is in No Man's Sky could be tweaked to focus on improving latency to a degree to where it would be acceptable to what's on screen.
Oh my bad, I see what you mean. At most, I can see something Prime 4 happening at the game awards, but certainly no hardware.
I don't think you can really improve latency by much without absolutely destroying the IQ. and the IQ is already pretty bad (might be from FSR upscaling though)
I agree. The biggest thing from Nintendo they could show is Metroid Prime 4. They could get away with a teaser, but I think Metroid Prime 2 and 3 have a better chance. They can shadow drop both at the Game Awards.
For a mouse and keyboard, the latency feels worse than with just a controller. It does get better with tech like Anti Lag, but since the developers are optimising their games for that specific system, these techniques aren't needed since they would optimise the game in the same way as to replicate the effect of Reflex/Anti-Lag. This would still feel acceptable on a controller and you would be trading that small amount of latency off for a much smoother image.
You're right it's DLSS 3.5
Theoretically they could pull the same thing as this year, and say the forecasts only include current models of Switch.
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Frame generation at 4K being significantly costlier than frame generation at 1080p is important.
the other theory, which I think is more reasonable, is that those alleged early kits are old silicon that were given out for test purposes. whatever reason you update dev kits, you gotta take old ones back. even if it's just adding more ram, new board layout, whatever.
Ya but that theory sounds like standard operating procedures. The rumor made it sound like it was something more than that. Some devs thought the old one was canceled?
I forgot about another set of two cents, haha:
Do we even know if that rumor is true?
That’s why to me “focus” makes sense. It’s not 100% and a reveal prior to the end of March works with the release after March.
considering neither source of the "dev kits were pulled" ever came out to clarify things, maybe there was nothing to clarify because it was just standard operating procedure. or maybe they're reading things wrong. again, they clarified nothing, they just said "dev kits were taken back".Ya but that theory sounds like standard operating procedures. The rumor made it sound like it was something more than that. Some devs thought the old one was canceled?
As far as wishful thinking? Well I know as much as anyone that this idea is not actually super likely...
but....
It might be a smaller upgrade than I'm speculating but I really think Nintendo HAS to differentiate this new model from the OG Switch. Coming out the gate with a big boy SteamDeck sized device does that effectively before you even see the name. It communicates with the size of the thing that it's going to be more powerful too. I think a big boy does a lot of heavy lifting for Nintendo. And then when die shrinks happen they can come out with Slim models and give the platform a boost.
Word. Public statements by executives are, usually, processed by Public Relations and Legal.
I concur. Every Direct we tell ourselves that the coming Direct will be the last Switch exclusive Direct, but again comes Nintendo.
"Tune in on Sept. 14 at 7 a.m. PT for a #NintendoDirect livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information focused on #NintendoSwitch games releasing this winter." proceeds to announce/showcase a cascade of 2024 games from spring all the way to summer
Nevermind teasing 2024 titles in the June Direct (Peach and Luigi)
To my knowledge, they've all always connected to something since Nintendo can't guarantee any demand will be there for Amiibo unless they have new software news going alongside it. This has always been the case.
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The Switch itself is an oversized product compared to all their previous handhelds.
A February Switch only Direct is seeming more and more likely as time goes on. If nothing happens this month I'm on the March reveal train all the way.
Then again, February can always be a Switch exclusive Direct, for the sake of ending the Fiscal Year and then we get a Switch 2 exclusive Direct
And it tanked for a reason. Wii U itself is still smaller than competitors.
Context matters. Manufacturers TODAY are still struggling to make a handheld with that kind of power envelope in the size of the Switch. And the Switch Lite isn’t much bigger than the 3DS while being 30x more powerful.
