"Nintendo gonna Nintendo" is not a monolith. Examples of Switch related "Because Nintendo" that I recall:
Valve will always win because their brand power is massive and positive. They are playing it slow instead of trying to run before they can walk.
Gives more credence to 8 inches being a round up from the 7.91 we've heard before. Same body height as OG and OLED Switch with very small bezels. They could even go very slightly taller and just ignore the fact that OG joycons wouldn't quite align, but still use a compatible rail.
NeoGAF flashbacks
Was it here or ResetERA where we couldn't have a handheld only Switch because it wouldn't Switch?
The graph suggests otherwise even with small bezels it‘s higher, which probably will be a bit smaller than from the OLED but still quite existent. And I don’t get why anyone would want to use OG Joy-Cons for Handheld.
To be fair to NeoGAF and gaming-age forums before it, it was maybe a bit of the wild west, but it was better than what was left of Usenet or IGN or any of the commercially backed forums at the time. For a while, the harsh moderation was more of a feature than a bug, but that changed over time.
everyone set themselves in disapoitment, expect the Legend of Zelda game on Gamecube,
The Zelda tech demo is BOTW 4k/60fps instant loading
The old moderation team around bishoptl was certainly the biggest asset of the forum together with the presence of insiders and the presence of Evilore himself.
Was the shipping data disussed outside this thread? I follow pretty religiously, not somehow missed the December shipping data.
To my knowledge no December data has showed up yet. He was probably thinking of November data (2-month lag). We can expect December data in a few weeks.
Had a thought about it and realized it might not have been totally clear: I'm not making fun of people who don't want a bigger Switch, I'm making fun of me. When I take my Switch places I literally do carry it in my pocket. It fits even when in its case, and I love that.
I keep my 6.8-inch kindle in my pants pocket next to my phone.
It is the "because Nintendo" effect. These calculated specs all sounds too good to be true. So what do they do? They pick the lowest common spec, even if (at times) it doesn't make sense. Have you seen the quote I have with nate? What I forget to add is they steal info here but leave out the ones that doesn't fit their views of Nintendo.
We don't know the resolution just yet...
my head will turn if we get lpddr5x RAM.
I'm not worried about the screen size affecting joycon compatibility at all. I know people are worrying it would be too tall or too wide (ergonomic). They will figure it out (if it does end up using 8 inches).
TBH I would have taken that deal
I can fit my Switch, my phone, and my wallet in one pocket so yeah I'm in that boat too.
So the Series S is the OLED, if Nintendo decided to do a dual lineup of OLED and Switch 2?
HD rumble I do miss when playing docked and using my 8bitdo ultimate controller, but in handheld it's great with the joycon rumble.
Hey, I like it better than NO rumble... but Maybe not as much as a $50 discount
That's the 3rd party controller I use. I have 4 Switch Pro Controllers and 3 of them have drift.
I really don't think that this would apply to the Switch 2, unless for some reason the aspect ratio is different. I don't know what you mean by how big is a 720p upscaled image... It's as big as the display? As for the "pixel perfect" modes in older systems like the GBA, DS, and 3DS, they added those modes since the aspect ratio of the systems' displays were different, so viewing them in full would stretch them.
Wasn't it delayed?
What about it? It was delayed to next week last he said.
never mind, lol i thought i was listening to a new one but then i saw the date lolol
I'm saying given the Switch 2's handheld screen, not a TV, how large would a 720p section of that 8 inch 1080p screen be assuming the pixels were 1:1 with no scaling or stretching. I think me saying "unscaled" looked too similar to "upscaled" because yeah then it's obvious.
It's a step back, absolutely, and a disappointing one. Nor do I think it is the same as 3D. I am also not sure it's "normal" because the idea of mid-gen refreshes is fairly new, so I'm not sure there is a normal yet.
66.66%. It would be like a 5.33-inch screen inside of a 8-inch screen.
If the Switch 2 is a 1080. 7.9" screen, then a 720p subsection of it would be 5.3", very slightly smaller than the Switch Lite's 5.5" screen.
That's Lite sized, I think that's kind of compelling for people who like "purity".
I pray to the gods of smoothness, frame rate, resolution, and visible to my aged eyes.
As an option! An option! God please not the only display configuration.
Doesn't Nvidia have some fancy upscaling tech that makes this discussion somewhat moot? Wouldn't all the OG Switch games potentially get upscaled to 1080p by the GPU?
For games running in BC mode, it does. Owlboy, Sea of Stars, Blasphemous, The Messenger are all pixel art games designed to run at 360p, which integer scales onto 720p. This is a case where the smaller screen doesn't do you any favors, lack of integer scaling is going to make pixel art games smeary. That's why pixel perfect modes are offered in emulators.
The problem is that DLSS requires each game to be configured with it. You can't just press a button and have DLSS enabled.
360p integer scales into 1080p. Did you mean that they're 240p? I remember that was a concern with Shovel Knight, and at that point, I'd hope they would have options for 4.5x or 4x scaling on Switch 2.
Come again?
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