I’m talking Nintendo clocks, of course. Wouldn’t make sense to compare max theoretical Drake clocks to a phone SoC clocked for passive cooling. I’m only pointing out that, as-is, the A15 is within shot of Orin’s multi-core score despite having half the cores.
Oh, the phone isn’t clocked that high either. It’s just peak performance. Real life performance is below that for the A15, because it doesn’t operate at peak 3.23GHz + 2.01GHz all day. But it does have a good level of performance still.
Fair points all!
Rating has nothing to do with the completion rate of the game..
No amount of hardware prevents developers from going for too much. If a game has always been aimed towards Switch and they overshot, that's on them. If Switch was 3x as powerful, they'd have been aiming 3x as high. With both Pokémon and Bayonetta we have developers making a new game in a series for hardware with as much or more power as any previous entry in the series had to work with.
Bayonetta is a bad example because they never put out a stable game on any platform
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Because they're already making T239. If you were to alter Orin to make the best Shield you could, you'd get something close to T239 anyway. Nvidia doesn't have to design a new chip, which is cheaper for them, and Nintendo doesn't pay for exclusivity on the hardware, which is cheaper for them.
I have been looking but I haven't seen anything new. Do you mind linking me to what you've found?
I still have flashbacks to Animal Crossing when the island got even a little too busy in some sections
No, DLSS 3 is a superset of DLSS 2. The old functionality is now marketed as DLSS Super Resolution, and DLSS 3 is made up of that as well as Frame Generation and Nvidia Reflex. They are separate toggles in the game settings - look at 9:10 in the Digital Foundry coverage to see this.
Should we be Concernt?
I daresay the warning levels should be raised to 1 (Anomaly)
Did you have the link of the amazon TotK page?
I'm so sorry.
Bowser's Fury in Handheld mode was NOT as stable as it could have been. If Fury Bowser was attacking and you were at one of the more detailed islands, not only could the framerate tank, but there'd be actual, N64-era-like slowdown.
Drake is going to be using all 12 SMs regardless of which mode it’s in, so I don’t know that shunting them to a Drake Lite is necessarily a viable solution.
definitely agreed
Yeah, Nintendo can't use the binned chips. If they only have half the GPU or half the CPUs functional, then they just won't be able to run NuSwitch games. Handheld mode doesn't turn off half the hardware, it just runs it at half speed.
That’s the good news: set-top boxes don’t sell in the hundreds of millions, so high volumes aren’t exactly necessary, just high enough volumes. And you achieve that by making a stockpile of binned chips. Binned chips of Erista and Mariko were enough to fully satisfy Shield demand, after all. For the Mariko chips specifically, they were available in Switches manufactured after August 2019, while Shield products with Mariko chips appeared in October, enough time to get a decent lead of binned chips to ensure stock was available.
On top of what’s already been said about Nintendo using the full range of cores even in a Lite model, even if they could somehow design a way to utilize binned chips for a Lite (which is unlikely), Nintendo’s primary concern is getting the best rate for T239 SoCs for the base hybrid model, and the fact of the matter is that a Shield could utilize FAR more binned chips than a Lite could, so it’s more economical to let Nvidia do as it wants with what’s been binned, as they will be able to use a larger swath of binned chips anyways.
It would definitely take time to get there, but I'm not sure that it would be any worse than the situation is now. The one thing Game Freak is good at is making games that feel like Pokemon games. Something they're definitely not good at is solving complex data streaming issues.
this comment doesn't make much sense to me when you account for the Wild Area. did they really think that empty-ass world would have been fine if it was even emptier? that just further makes me think the wild area came super late
There's a chance they were talking about everywhere except the Wild Area, but I think that falls apart the more I think about it. The Wild Areas aggressive Pokemon pop-in as well as some Pokemon only being able to be encountered through grass patches lends to the idea that it wasn't planned from the beginning.
Here is my point - Scarlet and Violet show fundamental engine errors that Arceus doesn't have. Even if Arceus style gameplay was introduced at the last minute to Scarlet/Violet, they should have inherited the engine improvements from Arceus.
I don't think this is true. Devkits have their own firmware builds that enables debug features including host PC communication, with the latter (the "target manager" part of the SDK) providing all the functionality that would be infeasible or inconvenient on-device. But the "DevMenu" firmware which runs on the devkit itself and controls everything there is a Switch application run by HOS, just like the home menu is on retail units. I don't think you can launch into anything else besides DevMenu, recovery mode, etc.
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If there's enough RAM to actually be holding more world data (versus something like the same amount of world at prettier detail) it gives more of a buffer before slowdown or hangs due to slow loading is necessary.
For all intents and purposes, this is a successor. The hardware will exceed the ps4 in gpu and cpu (by a massive amount in the latter).
