Again, I'm not saying their results will be good. I'm just saying that we don't know yet, and that relying solely on a partial figure doesn't allow us to say for sure.
don't play with my heart
I've been waiting for the WW/TP announcement for so long I have zero faith it will ever happen.... not on the switch at least
That might be a good way to solve the space issue that 4K textures will introduce, since handheld mode won't have use for ultra-high quality textures. Have the games set to use lower-res textures that are part the game on the system storage, and have optional high-res texture packs installed on an external drive plugged into the dock? Or hell, maybe the dock could come with its own separate storage for that specific reason.
Call me a pessimist but I don't expect many if any games to actually use appropriately high resolution textures, for a variety of reasons. Space and having to fit on Game Card, memory optimisation, memory speed. The recommended texture size for 4K DLSS is the same Xbox Series X uses for rendering in 4K, but that console will likely end up in a position with more, faster RAM than NG Switch. NG Switch also can't save memory in the frame buffer, since that needs to be the output resolution for DLSS, 4K, as I understand it. Where it's running the same games, it can't save memory by reducing the amount of interactions, complexity or some kinds of asset density. Really, games will have to sacrifice texture resolution, probably a lot, on NG Switch compared to other 4K platforms.
It'd only really be usable as a cold storage feature. Even the existing options for playing Switch games all broadly lack seek times.
Would be rad indeed. But it depends on From and Bamco, so
Probably only useful for cold storage since I don't imagine the external USB ports having enough bandwidth to allow for much higher sequential read speeds that third party developers require (1 GB/s).
I imagine that would come down to how much coddling Nintendo wants to do having worries about teh kiddiez going online for the first time.
we don't know what format expanded storage will take, but it will obviously have it. no format is off the table right now
M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs, which the PlayStation 5 supports, probably won't be supported by Nintendo's new hardware, since M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs require a large amount of space, which the motherboard for Nintendo's new hardware probably doesn't have.
Plot twist, it's this Link.
I don't expect much for a system voicechat as at best, we will just have regular Bluetooth voice chat. I feel like if Xbox 360 can handle system voice chat on 32 MB of ram (IIRC), then Nintendo could have tried. They just chose not to.
I meant system voice chat. Of course now Nintendo let the developers choose if they want to implement VC in their game.
This will probably never happen. Nintendo actively doesn't want people to communicate online.
No, it was forming a joint venture w/DeNA, who has been doing their infrastructure since the beginning of Switch
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The excuse is they are not interested to implement integrated Voice/Text chat into their system or some other things people want. As long as that remains the case then I don’t see much changing. At best I can see them integrate & work w/Discord like they did Twitter.
Not just lack of voice chat, also the complete lack of direct messages as well. Even the Wii allowed for sending messages to friends. These are basic features that have been standard everywhere else since 2006 yet nintendo wants to charge money for their online that lacks basic features like messaging friends.
I don’t actually believe this. The app does exist and voice chat is supported for select games. They know that some experiences greatly benefit from it, and in a world where family and friends are all so well connected regardless of the distance, needing to get on a zoom call to play Switch together is archaic.
I agree that the best solution would be Discord, but every day it seems that this dream becomes more distant. It's hard to believe that Nintendo would allow such an infamous app to play such a vital role in its next console.
fair point. it's more interesting that is has actually climbed quite a lot since the end of october into now. not sure what the exact reason there is. only thing i can think of, outside of speculation, is the zelda movie announcement (which was actually after the stock already started rising) but i doubt that would affect stock that much and for how long it has been now that it has risen.
The digital sales proportion (pink line) is still under 50%, as said in the talk. And yeah, this is just pasting what was in the FY 2023 financial results from May (48.2% digital sales).
Hm... Over 50% of sales are digital in FY2023. Was that info known?
I believe so.
Hm... Over 50% of sales are digital in FY2023. Was that info known?
aaaah so that must be the Cave Story I keep hearing so much about
They literally said "late to the dock discussion" at the start of their reply and then later mentioned a hypothetical where OG Switches could connect to a docked NG Switch. It was also within the larger context of a conversation talking about adding some sort of streaming capacity to the dock.
I'm pretty sure during the Pro controller's designing, it had an audio jack for a headset, but as you said, chose not to have it in the end.
It's possible that the infrastructure was not yet ready since Nintendo had just transitioned their online store to a more modern and scalable approach.
Grooming of minors, blackmailing of trans people, nazi gatherings.
I believe Thraktor's findings where much lower and very much possible.
