It’s beautiful. Now I really want the Super Nintendo Switch.My Switch 2 Pro controller is ready.
prime4 has been in development for 5 years now, which shows that nintendo has enough polish on the game, at the same time the game missed all the golden years of the switch and if I'm not mistaken this year is the last year of the switch's lifecycle, so far prime4 hasn't released any new news to the public, it's obvious that it's rushing to debut on switch2
No.
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of major first party games coming out shortly before a new hardware (many of which never released on the new hardware), but The Last of Us Part II comes to mind as a notable one that came out 5 months before PS5 and didn't get a PS5 version until 3 years after PS5 launch.
Not a ps5 version, but a full blown remastered./s
the only thing that's obvious is that nothing is obvious
Because as far as we know Nintendo has nothing else this holiday, and it will probably sell decently.
We don’t know very far.
We know SNG was the OG plan until semi recently. So it's a reasonable assumption they don't have a ton of stuff.
I think it would be a very bad plan to make prime4 the last key title of the switch lifecycle and choose to come back to switch2 after a while, the loss of a premier game for switch2 for no reason would have an incalculable impact on switch2 sales.I'd like to reiterate that point that switch2 needs enough quality first party exclusives in its first year to complete a smooth transition
Why would we assume they are going to drop Switch support instantly? Feels like the imminent end of Switch's software support has been predicted for several years running too.
Drake is far better than Van Gogh though.
I bet you could. What if they did $450?
The measure that most people use are teraflops. Shouldn't Drake be a bit more than SD in handheld mode? Assuming around 550 mhz.
Well, think about it. The reflection against Samus armor. Global illumination in the obligatory lava room. The mandatory super HDR dark room. The refine strands of Samus hair. The fast elevator transition scene (like in dread but faster). The 1440p resolution, if not in 4K. Metroid Prime 4 is probably the only game that can take that much advantage of the NGS.
Well, I think the only counter argument. I can think of is Pokémon ZA will be the holiday launch title for this year.
Well, that's the thing I was trying to say earlier is that zelda had two cross gen titles that did better on the newer console.
A tale as old as time...
All of those games would 100% benefit from being on new hardware. As gorgeous as Tears of the Kingdom is, I'm not sure how you can look at some of the texture work and the FSR1.0 artifacts and think it couldn't use a little more of a push to smooth out some edges (almost literally lol).
It's not directly comparable to home-brew though. Any home brewer will gladly tolerate occasional bugs or crashes as a result of their tinkering.
I’m willing to bet Core-Nintendo Gamers would be more hype for a new 3D Mario…
I definitely have been wondering if Nintendo will do one more model before calling it quits on the OG Switch 1. It could come after the Switch 2 released like the GBA Micro came after the the DS.
I personally think Nintendo will make one more iteration of the switch.
Deck: 1.63 TFLOPS
No for a few reasons.
Arguably I would think that if games do have mandated analog triggers, they'll be able to adapt the controls around it so there's no need for a micro-delay in highly competitive shooters/racers/fighters.
are on Switch and elsewhere, there is a distinct difference in handling when you only have digital triggers and that nuance in control is lost as a result. Rocket League is another great example where despite crossplay, there's still aerial handling and manuevres that result in trickier timed taps on digital triggers to ensure the right velocity that wouldn't be necessary for analog triggers.
Out of all revisions I've seen suggested, the one which makes the most sense would be a TV-only box focused on cheap local multiplayer (console + 2 joycons + 1 game for $199 or less). Ring Fit could be a bundle here too.
I terribly dislike analog triggers. I have to spend like $150 on xbox joysticks so that I can disable them. They're nice for everything that is better with them (racing games) and worse for everything else. I even think FPS games are worse with them. I feel like Gamecube games had them tacked on so that they wouldn't seem like the almost worthless addition that they are. FLUDD puzzles were designed around them for this very reason. I would have so much rather had the port of Super Mario Sunshine in 3D Allstars redesign the puzzles, but I think that was beyond the scope of the work, and adding support for actual gamecube controllers was the best we were going to get out of that.Arguably I would think that if games do have mandated analog triggers, they'll be able to adapt the controls around it so there's no need for a micro-delay in highly competitive shooters/racers/fighters.
I wouldn't make the argument that Mario Kart needs analog triggers for gas and brakes, however a number of racing sims like Need For Speed, Burnout, or (in this delulu fantasy) Forza would absolutely take advantage of analog triggers. These games, especially the former as NFS:HP and BO
Even when it comes to Nintendo's in-house games, Super Mario Sunshine also made good use of FLUDD with analog triggers that it's the only way I can play the game using a GC controller when playing SM3DAS because muscle memory makes so much more sense than having to learn an inferior control scheme. F-Zero GX, if/when it does get a remaster or a whole new entry in 3D space, analog triggers are crucial to drifting around hairpin corners at breakneck speeds.
In conclusion Nintendo has been wrong to remove analog triggers ever since the Wii Classic Controller Pro. It is more boon than hindrance than they believe, they are not trailblazers in this regard when Xbox and Sony have maintained if not improved their analog triggers and response (even if they can't get the ergonomics right like GC did), and they only hold themselves back because of this ridiculous limitation. The return of analog triggers are long overdue and never should have left in the first place; slim form factor be damned
I think so. I'm a bit vague on what exactly "cross gen" should normally mean if we have BC here.
Deck have only 4 cores on CPU and drake will have 8.
Threads isn't the same as cores. Zen 2 has 2 threads per core, arm 78 has one.
Right, but 8 threads != 8 cores either. It's all dependent on how each set of 2 hardware threads handle the shared resources per physical core. At times when the threads don't require the same resources, they can technically work in parallel as if they were separate cores. But most of the time it's not like that. I think the general number was around a 30% boost with SMT with only a 5% increase in core area.
I don't think that was suggested. But if the plan for holiday 2024 was something like "half Switch, half Switch 2 including the biggest AAA release", we're now left with whatever the "half Switch" part was.
Worst case is probably that Switch 2 in its slow mode is not very different from Steam Deck in its pedal-to-the-metal mode. Though it may fall behind on fan decibels.
As a casual Smash player, I kind of enjoyed the analog shield.
No. If they were hoping to have Switch 2 for this year, that would be the plan for this year's hardware. But that not happening, they wouldn't reasonably be able to produce something else in a matter of months, or take something planned for next year (the equivalent of GB Micro or N2DSXL) and have it ready a year early. And as has often come up, Lite OLED seems a bad clash in what those models were intended to be.[/list]
I'm wondering which of these setups will hold up better in the future though. Will the Steam Deck's 4 core & 8 threads CPU at some point have diminishing returns, since new games like Dragons Dogma 2 perfectly showcase the benefits of 6-8 core CPUs when you're entirely CPU bound?
To make up for a delay, Nintendo can very well advance the release of games that were to be released on both consoles anyway without it changing much for them. I mean, even if Prime 4 ,Wind Waker or Twilight princess HD come out before switch 2, it will still be a selling point for switch 2 to say they will look better on the new console.
This is why I keep saying pressure sensitive capacitive L and R buttons. We lose nothing but we gain the OPTION of analogue input without hugely increased complexity, and important for a portable, without much added component size. Unsupported games? They feel and act like standard L and R bumpers. Supported games? Scroll them like wheels, select items, adjust pressure, whatever you like! Scroll wheel shoulder buttons, analogue triggers, capactive touch sensors, all in one! Heck, make R a finger print scanner while we're at it, why not.
