Ys X and Trails are made by the same developer, Fashion Dreamer is following its own color theme, SMRPG is a SNES remake. Something can be a coincidence and still understandable.
If that was the case, I guess every developer except Falcom and Marvelous ignored them.
It should be made available later today for everyone.
I still mildly disagree due to, again, how hard it is to "push" those boundaries at all in the game industry as it is right now. I get that we will push boundaries, but the amount of effort it's taking to get to that point, while still avoiding overworking employees to death, is getting harder and harder. It might change over time as games get slightly easier to develop due to evolving tools and simplifying the processes, but I have a feeling that isn't happening as soon as people think.
I'd also like to state that pushing the boundaries of Xbox One and PS4, like say, The Witcher 3, could still make it to Nintendo Switch. Meanwhile, T239, sure, it's SLOWER than the SOCs of the home consoles, but it straight up has MORE features. It appears to be designed in a way that, no matter how far you push the home consoles, if you put in the time to optimise the game, it can still function on NG Switch.
Really like that desing with color buttonsFine!
And with the buttons like that it will look a lot betterJust swap the button colors on the left Joy-Con for color parity in single Joy-Con mode, then it'll be perfect.
Brinks apart, this is how it looks:
It's perfectly feasible, and a number of games, like Splatoon 3, and Animal Crossing New Horizons already do that to serve as quick menus or text input, while Fallout 4 used it as a menu interface. Xbox Smart Glass was a thing a little over a decade ago. Now, we see PS and Xbox becoming extremely capable of streaming video with low latency to mobile devices. However, it's a bit of a matter of juice not being worth the squeeze. Simple menus are relatively easy and already possible on Nintendo Switch with the NSO App. Streaming an entirely seperate view rendered on the console is possible but more difficult. However, that difficulty, that expense, that engineering, is predicated on the assumption of people having a controller grip for their phone, or propping it up on a coffee table, or laying it on their lap. Trying to use the Wii U GamePad for menus while using another controller was never terribly convenient.
I wonder how that would look with black controller shells, and a light grey circle around both sets of face buttons. That's sort of what I expect, I think the light grey look might look a bit dingey in this day and age.Really like that desing with color buttons
And with the buttons like that it will look a lot better
I like the SNES controller desin. too. So, if we put all together:
Brinks apart, this is how it looks:
Is the release to public (made available to everyone) at a preset time? If so when do those videos behind Patreon normally get released to the public?
Thanks man!
Is this a video to watch out for? Maybe missed an earlier comment which gave more insight as to what its about.
Thank you!
To my understanding it explores theoretical performance of T239 (Switch successor SoC). Rich from DF has received some input from Oldpuck here too - not sure what type of input that is but hopefully the video is full of content that is relevant to this thread (T239 SoC, DLSS, etc).
Safe to assume they'll also use DLSS in handheld mode. Ultra Performance can get the native resolution down to 360p for a 1080p target.
TL : DR: The specs of the T239 aligns very similarly to the 2050/3050 mobile GPUs. Digital Foundry ran tests on underclocked laptops that have similar spec sheets to that processor and are reporting what the expected benchmarks for the device should be. It should be very insightful, however the "actual" power of the device will be seen when it actually releases. It's more "what to expect" than 100% accurate information, but DF know their shit, so I trust them to do good reporting.
Ooh, yeah definitely. Probably not as needed, but it'll be useful nevertheless because it means the device can underclock and still meet performance benchmarks, all the while increasing battery life.
That sounds very interesting indeed, will keep a look out. Thank you Darthdiablo!
See this shit is what's so exciting to me. 2.2TF with a target resolution of 360p. 3.45TF with a target resolution of 720p. Imagine the kind of visuals you can pull off with that much overhead. The next Xenoblade will gobsmack, I guarantee it.
Really like that desing with color buttons
And with the buttons like that it will look a lot better
I like the SNES controller desin. too. So, if we put all together:
Brinks apart, this is how it looks:
Considering the reports of Monolith Soft's new IP, it means they'll have experience of the hardware before jumping head-first into the next Xenoseries game. Probably going to be the best game of all time, fr fr.
I think that's possible and if the included grip is this transforming, phone-affixing multitool, I would be ecstatic. Weird Nintendo is back! They could port fully featured Wii U and DS games. Have the grip link the L and R controllers in TV Mode, expand it once to slot a phone in, expand again for landscape mode, flip it around and attach it to the console for dual screens on the go.
Did they state what OS they used? They should use a light, gaming-focused OS like SteamOS instead of Windows. Same thing happened with the original Switch where the tests using the Shield TV underperformed because they were using Android, which is pretty unoptimized for gaming rather than the light, gaming-focused Horizon.
I hope we see NG Switch get Xenoblade X Remastered before they jump into a new IP. I really think feeling it out with a remaster, then a new IP, then a new Xenoblade would pay dividends.
BUSTER WOLF!!!!!
We have so much evidence to suggest Horizon will hop skip and jump onto NG Switch that I dare to say I DO have hope for T239 being considerably more performant than RTX3050 in real world scenarios.
Annoyingly, I don't know. It's also worth mentioning that, however good the x86-64 Steam OS actually is, it is not a good/accurate replacement for the ARM Switch OS. Not only due to the different architecture, but Proton (the fancy layer used to play on SteamOS) isn't faultless when it comes to running games. This is the one major snag that comes with replicating any of the dedicated hardware of any system, it's never 1 to 1.
Xenoblade X is probably going to be Monolith's Launch Year game. Enough time has passed since Xenoblade 3 and FR for them to get the work done on something like that, so it's not impossible. Regardless, gonna be a damn impressive looking game, especially if they take the "Xenoblade DE" approach to a remaster and redo a bit of the artstyle to fall in line with what came after. Xenoblade DE is still probably the best remaster of all time because it's honestly touching the line between "remaster" and "remake".
so would this mean that, due to windows having a greater toll on the hardware, we could expect something better than what they show? or just something different?
Why wouldn't they? If they can get extra performance for essentially free, they should, especially on an 8-inch tablet screen where the occasional visual error is much less noticable.
We're basically all junkies, at this point. Scouring for our fix of leaks and rumors, only to crash after the unforgiving fist of reality towers over our addled souls.
I'd say better. Newer Tensor cores, RT cores, generally better hardware as a whole, ARM-based OS leading to better optimisation and that's before mentioning that developers optimise for the console, meaning that the T239 can a lot better than the 2050 despite having similar hardware. Also Nintendo can do all sorts of techno-wizard fuckery on their end to get the games running far better than you'd reasonably expect.
Someone posted a video of Cyberpunk 2077 running DLSS from 360p to 1080p iirc and, outside of some issues with the shadows, the game generally looked very solid. Would work on a handheld, even at 1080p DLSS Ultra Performance on an 8-inch screen.
I have no doubts they will explain the differences and how it's just an useful guide rather than final level of performance.
Something better, absolutely. Remember that Switch 2 will be a console, with thin OS and API layer and fixed hardware that will be explored to its maximum by the developers. Case in point, DF tested Resident Evil 5 Android running on a Tegra X1 (Which, remember, runs at higher clocks that Switch) and the game runs at 720p30-60 (Unlocked framerate). The Switch version of Resident Evil 5 runs at 1080p60. That's how big of a difference it is.
We've been there for a minute, actually.
Something better in most cases, I would say.
Exactly. I believe that Richard has contacts in the industry that greenlit this video. I assume said contacts deemed the content faithful enough to whatever they can extract from Drake.
Rather than OS overhead, I think the thing that really makes the comparison uncompelling (for me personally) is that nobody has ever built a game for a downclocked 2050 Mobile. All this is really testing is the inherent scalability of PC games built with different, and very likely higher, minimum specs in mind. That's just not the same as a Switch successor game where the only hardware configuration being targeted is exactly the successor's hardware. Things like "optimization" and "OS overhead" are at risk of being used as handwaves, but I think this is a real issue.
R I got out of the video is that we shouldn't except 4k output and we shouldn't expect current generation titles to run at 60fps. It will be even harder than with Series S to eke out an acceptable performance mode. 
thank you to all 5 of you who responded lol! i appreciate the clarification.
