I should mention right now that, from what I've seen of the 2050 Laptop GPU, it's pretty decent for what it is. It can run modern games at medium settings 60fps fairly well, and that's with the device running on windows which is an OS that takes more to handle than the Switch OS. I can't wait to see DF's video on it, but i'm still fairly confident in the T239's power.
The running theory is that the Switch 2 will be better than the PS4 but the jury is still out on how close it is to the Series S. Worth reminding folks that the Switch 2 will be a native 1080p machine in all likelyhood. It doesn't need to have the power for 1440p games and it doesn't have a requirement of parity like the Series S. DLSS will fill in the blanks and make the device run at higher resolutions.
One of the slides from the Microsoft leaks explicitly mentioned co-designing the GPU with AMD or licencing the Navi 5x GPU IP from AMD.
Thank you for explaining this.
I'll have to wait and see if other, smarter people make comments on my stance to see if I got everything correct, but I'm optimistic that this device is going to be a reasonable, stealth powerhouse of a system. Nintendo has a good history of making some of the more impressive games for any given system "generation". Hell, Metroid Prime Remastered looks like a PS5 middle-shelf game, and that's a Gamecube remaster running on 7th gen hardware capabilities.
I don't expect this to be a problem at all. Pretty much every multiplat that came to Switch was much smaller in file size compared to other console versions. There will be multiple ways in which they can bring size down.
but it would be nice to get the campaign on a cartridge, just for the novelty of a modern CoD campaign being on a cartridge!Not really, no. Though, you can get image or content quality that is played or executed correctly where it fools the eye for most people that it looks almost identical or the same, but when scrutinized it is actually below it or not up to that level.
Tbh, I always forget this. It's actually impressive how much the file size shrinks by.
Working with one set of textures, having dedicated decompression hardware, and an incentive to actually... Compress things on NG Switch should help.
Bad habits from Gen8 and PC still hanging around. Unfortunately dedicated decompression hasn't really hit PC in the way it's hit consoles, so it's the lowest common denominator in terms of drive speed and compression.
It's not. This is the result of working with mechanical drives and shit cpus for so long. More compression means more loading and slower games. It's not a coincidence that all new systems have dedicated decompression and fast storage.
Compression is generally at it's worst with third-parties. Not because all the games are 100gb Monoliths, but rather because there's no consistency at all with how large games are.
Microsoft actually has DirectML Super Sampling and they demoed Forza Horizon using this solution back in early 2020's. I wonder why we haven't heard more about since then
You and me both. I'm really looking foward to it as I'm very interested in the power data and the performance at the custom clocks Rich was able to test it.
2050 is a really powerful GPU, yes. Basically same performance as the 3050 Mobile, despite the limited memory bus. Would have been an awesome cheap dGPU for Desktop had Nvidia released there.
If I remember correctly, that demo was a video upscale, not a real-time game upscale. And it was Nvidia's library ported to DirectML, rather than a creation of Microsoft
ONE OF THE BOYS!!!
It made sense in the days of HDDs and duplicate assets, I guess. Better to look for one texture atlas rather than hundreds of small textures scattered who the fuck knows where on the hdd.
a indie World Showcase could happen in this month or dezembre, filling the void
Making mention of it probably won't solve the problem outright, but at least it'll start a small movement.
My take is that it'll be 300MB/s, targeting 1GB after decompression (a big ask but not impossible), because going above that you start looking at forcing installs to internal memory. MicroSD and Game Card can both theoretically hit 300MB/s, for instance. As for volume, I think either 256 or 512 is pretty reasonable, and with the cost of storage being what it is, I really hope they go with 512.
I believe the Legend of Heroes' coloured buttons was already mentioned, but the "Feb 2024" theory sounds pretty plausible. Kinda adds to the "We're getting an announcement between now and the end of January" theories, but we'll have to see.I just found out something super interesting. In screenshot for the upcoming switch version Legend of Heroes: Kuro No Kiseki you can see the button have color correspond to the color of the Snes/SF buttons just like the TTYD remake coming next year which is also when this game comes out.
Though the kicker is that this game have a released date of Feb 2024 meaning that not only is there a chance that the theory that the switch having colored buttons might actually be true but we could see some kind of announcement/first look for it before this year end.
Ys X has it too I believe and that's already out.
Nintendo would probably opt for 256gb just for cost reasons, but I do hope and pray it's 512gb. The Switch benefits the most from being a digital console, so you can kinda understand why it'd be a good move to have such a large space for games. Hell, if those rumours about a digital-only SKU are true, 512gb might be the option for that SKU.
I think that is Legion Go more than the screen itself in this case.
A digital only SKU would benefit first and foremost from being cheaper, which is incompatible with it being the high storage option, really.
True ig. The Black Series S sku kinda works on paper, but it wouldn't work for the Switch 2 if the difference in price is around 50 bucks.
I haven't seen many of such rumours, but the one I do remember is the one where I posted it. Even as a serious conversation point, I kinda agree? It depends on how many notes Nintendo is taking from Xbox and Playstation.
SSDs have gotten cheaper very quickly from what I've seen. Hell, I managed to buy an 1TB external SSD for 2.70 pounds once from Lenovo's store (long story, not relevant). 512gb is likely and Nintendo seems to understand the value of internal storage now, but it's still something I've got concerns over.
Ah! That explains why we haven't seen it since. Meh, I was really expecting MS to develop a IHV agnostic ML Upsampling solution baked into DirectX. But I guess that's too much to ask for.
Was this video announced or something?
Yes. It has been in editing stage for a while.
Wasn’t it announced for this week, tho?
I believe so. Might be delayed but we’ll see if it still comes out this week. I’ve been looking forward to the video too.
Not necessarily. Physical get better discounts anyway, so those who are price councious will likely not fall for a $50 discount when they save a lot more in the long run. Only people who are already 100% digital would get that in masses. But if it's a trade off (physical vs more storage), people mostly digital may be more willing to go 100%.
That's a bit contradictory; the new Series X is NOT cheaper, it's the same price. Meanwhile, digital and physical price differences are becoming less and less relevant. A cheaper, higher storage, digital only SKU sold alongside the existing one makes no sense, there's a reason Microsoft and Sony haven't don't that despite many chances to do so.
It does look good though right? Yeah I was exaggerating, but it's definitely impressive for the hardware and doesn't seem like something that'd be on the Switch.
I feel like that's a problem that won't happen as much with the Switch 2. A lot, and I mean a lot, of Gen 9 games are running on PS4 hardware and a lot of current gen exclusives feel like, with a little bit of elbow grease, could run on 8th gen hardware. Gonna refer to my argument of "The power of the hardware is no longer proportional to the amount of effort you can expect to be put into a game". The main innovations are primarily through optimisation of software solutions, such as Ray-reconstruction, Frame Generation and upscaling, the innovations through software solutions are slowly coming down to "making it easier to implement" such as ray-tracing.
It seems like the simplest most logical conclusion
Oh, your first post meant that "it could be cheaper or have more storage, but not both"? If so, my bad I agree.
