Probably not since Nvidia seems to be using 2 clusters of 8 Cortex-A78C cores for the BlueField-3.
So far, Windows on Arm laptops, at least at the high end (e.g. ThinkPad X13s, Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G), are opting for the 4 Cortex-X1C cores and 4 Cortex-A78C cores configuration instead of the 8 Cortex-A78C cores configuration (e.g. Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, Microsoft SQ3).
This variant could have been created at the behest of Nvidia/Nintendo or offered up by ARM in an attempt to garner marketshare.
I don't think these are strictly A78C cores, or at the very least it doesn't seem to be a two clusters of 8 cores configuration. If you read this Nvidia blog post it describes the BlueField 3 CPU setup as:
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that one. It's curious to find it in a networking product, but I suppose it's the most capable CPU with lockstep redundancy, which may be of use in critical network infrastructure.
This was actually reported by Digital Foundry back in 2019, when Nintendo released the Red Box Switch and Switch Lite using Tegra X1 Mariko, which is a revised 16nm shrink of X1 Erista. Here's the relevant video (Starts at 11:04):
It doesn't has more RAM. It uses a newer standard of RAM compared to OG 2017 Switch. And that can cause ever so slightly variations in performance. It was already observed by DF that the new RAM had an exarcebated effect regarding performance stability on BoTW, so it's not surprising ToTK also exhibit the same. See the video above.
It could be aged silicon, though that would be very unusual.
The early adopters are great. Even the Wii U had early adopters. Once, again, I'm not denying at all that there will be some audience, probably including myself, that will be more than happy to buy a new hardware no matter what. My point is that a majority of the Switch owners bought first and foremost bought a Nintendo console to play Nintendo games they can't play anywhere else. I don't know if it's relevant, because I did not think anybody would disagree. First party is a way bigger deal for Nintendo consoles that for Playstation.
I wouldn't chalk it up to be something relevant tbh. They could be either screenshots taken in-engine using a development workstation or maybe just a good upscaling software.
Yes, it's why tons of games performance modes suck and have to scale down resolution so much.
Well yes, but that isn't my point, my point is specifically on what makes a cross-gen title different from other multi-plat releases. The idea that every next-gen update is considered cross-gen by default's kind of stupid, otherwise you start getting early/mid-eight gen titles like Witcher 3 being classified as cross-gen titles, which is ludicrous.
Assuming Drake is on Samsung 8NM, would it be possible for Nintendo to incorporate a larger battery to accommodate a more power hungry SoC?
Maybe, but it's a large enough SOC at 8nm.
Drake finished last year, release date doesn't matter at this point.
8nm would mean bad battery life, regardless of clocks.
Would Drake be bigger than Erista if it's on 8nm?
This is the part that always stumps me. That somebody in a position of power figures "GTAV as an offline-only game just isn't going to be big enough to bother with. But full speed ahead on L.A. Noire!"
It's a not insignificant amount of OLED sales, and that barely touched anything beyond the screen.
Oled is not a new console, it's a deluxe version of an existing console.
Right, but that's a point against OLED. Something that was going to provide bigger gains than OLED did would do even better at selling to the old crowd.
Something marketed as a generation gap after seven years needs to feel like one, in my opinion. My point is that in the long run, while it's great to keep the momentum so late on the life-cycle of the Switch, which is a huge positive point of Totk, a new hardware needs to be on everyone's conversations just like Zelda currently is. And it can only happen threw games.
It's a double edged sword really. Do they use these games to push Nextgen Switch sales? Or should they release them on last gen too to make more money, which might hinder Nextgen Switch sales in the process, because some will say "It can play on my existing Switch and I don't need Nextgen Switch for it"?
bro, you've gone so far past my original point with this first vs third party nonsense.
Are these crossgen or ports though?
I like to use the Wii U launch as a base for the dedicated nintendo hardware buyers... so like probably 5 million dedicated people who would go out and buy one within the first little while.
Each switch cart has a key unique ID, or so I thought. I remember stories of Nintendo disabling carts of leaked games but the hacking kind of subverted that functionality, I think.
Hire multiple pen test teams to attack Nvidia's bootloader (and a few other security sensitive things that can't be patched if there's a problem).
Pretty much what they already do. Switch is very secure and only was exploited due to the hardware exploit in Erista. T239, assuming no catastrophic security error from Nvidia, will be pretty much locked.
Well the software seems pretty water tight, and they're not likely to change it. The only exploits are hardware, most likely, and that's been more or less solved since 2018 on the silicon side. With the processor being nearly entirely custom this time, I think it would likely be under even more scrutiny than before internally.
I‘m not saying that I’d agree with the decision. GTAV would sell really well on Switch. Just tried to speculate on the reasons why they would have decided against it and I think that I gave several reasons why maybe GTAV wasn‘t feasible for Switch. I mean it could still happen, I just don‘t think that it‘s likely anymore.
I don't know where you're hearing this stuff, it was a pretty good port?
Alright, you're saying you heard people talking about it running poorly and having horrendous graphics, and you're also saying you remember seeing it yourself. I'm just going off what you're saying!
Theoretically, couldn’t RT cores on NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs be “drop-in” replacements for emulating Drake’s? At least on the Tensor core side, the same could be done for NVIDIA as well, but I’m not sure what the equivalent is for AMD/Intel.
That’s supposed to be a remaster so see that as different.
PS5 sure wasn't in hot demand for its exclusive games these last 2.5 years.
What's funny is that Nintendo's security was very good on the Switch, but Nvidia kept fucking up.
if you know you know
doubt it will happen again
Most probably the reason why Switch OS is barebones.
