Screen, battery, charging circuitry. Plenty of savings to be made. I mean they ripped out internet on Wii Mini, who knows!
As long as Nintendo has fans believing that, the switch will remain $300+ with nary a price cut for its entire life.
Lol, you just remembered me about that. Keep in mind it isn't the weakling the original console was. Docked mode is almost twice as powerful there, the compromises for handheld mode are much more severe in comparison. A TV-only version that gets you peak 3.2 TFLOPS every single time is an interesting prospect against the Series S.
I was going to edit that part, sorry. I mean that the Switch is already cheap af to manufacture as it is, so price cuts should've already been made if they wanted to.As long as Nintendo has fans believing that, the switch will remain $300+ with nary a price cut for its entire life.
Yet, somehow Nintendo still makes billions???
We don't really have any solid evidence Drake is anything other than largely on schedule. I don't think there's any scenario where it could have been ready earlier than 2022.
Ports don’t need more than 2 years of dev.
Ports didn't sell New 3DS, certainly. I can see why they'll tell them to target things for 2023.
Port on portable only =/= than home console / hybrid… so AAA port could sell well and making easy extra money
Sure, but it's not feasible to release these behemoths of consoles without at least one next gen, exclusive release. Even Skyrim that was originally shown in the Switch reveal as being on par with the PS4/One versions sold terribly, it doesn't even show up in tops. Everyone that ever wanted to play games of the magnitude of RDR2 probably already did, they're important to keep the system alive but not turn it into a killer product for many.
« We » don’t know if there are /is one or multiple games exclusive ready … rumors, whispers.. are nothing official but no smoke without fire.
It ultimately depends on the date when ironed-out dev kits were sent to big players, 2019 is about the time this SoC was completely defined going from the NVN2 documents so... I think 2022 would've indeed been 2 or 3 years of development for things, decent but not groundbreaking enough for what you'd expect from a full blown next gen.« We » don’t know if there are /is one or multiple games exclusive ready … rumors, whispers.. are nothing official but no smoke without fire.
You don't. What outlook did they have on the project in 2016? We don't know and we won't know.
One of them did mention a new SoC according by modders, so it's very likely May is indeed the time. Now, checking out the schedules of every 1st party release, I think only pre-2019 franchises released on Switch will be able to show up in time for this year.
Do you have a link to this? This is the first I'm hearing of modders seeing indications of a new SoC in a firmware update recently.
It was said in GBATemp looooooong time ago (the "recently" was in context), no idea if you can even find it at this point. I'll do my best.
gbatemp.net
That was about Switch OLED.Here it is, that was easier than I thought.
[RUMOR] SciresM speculates on Switch Pro details through datamine information
Resident Switch hacking scene member SciresM, known for his work on Atmosphere CFW, has made a curious discovery via datamining. A Nintendo Switch Pro model might actually be on the way, if you believe what he's uncovered from an update on the Switch. It should be noted that while interesting...
The codenames inside are what intrigue me, "Aula" indeed ended up being die-shrink OLED while "Calcio" was apparently a TV only test board. Never quite knew the context for the later. Even after the release, there's nothing directly implying in the firmware Aula was this console, it's actually called Mariko internally or V2 as we all know.
Totally offtopic, but it's pretty cool that gbatemp has remained alive and kicking after all these years. It's still a very useful resource at that. Literally my first forum, albeit I rarely ever posted.Here it is, that was easier than I thought.
[RUMOR] SciresM speculates on Switch Pro details through datamine information
Resident Switch hacking scene member SciresM, known for his work on Atmosphere CFW, has made a curious discovery via datamining. A Nintendo Switch Pro model might actually be on the way, if you believe what he's uncovered from an update on the Switch. It should be noted that while interesting...
Oh I thought you were referring specifically to the October 15.0 firmware update.
Here it is, that was easier than I thought.
[RUMOR] SciresM speculates on Switch Pro details through datamine information
Resident Switch hacking scene member SciresM, known for his work on Atmosphere CFW, has made a curious discovery via datamining. A Nintendo Switch Pro model might actually be on the way, if you believe what he's uncovered from an update on the Switch. It should be noted that while interesting...
Yeah that has nothing to do with a new SoC. Aula (which is not a die shrink OLED, it uses the same Mariko chip as the 2019 V2 revision) was potentially tied to a new display port chip, which could theoretically output 4k60fps. But not a console SoC.
Mariko is the codename for the SoC, not the Switch itself.
Yeah, just checked it out. What's in the 15.0 firmware update, i'm curious?
Only if it was to include Arkham Knight I would guess. The compilations on the other consoles include it iirc.
For the last part, guess they're already preparing for the fact the SD Express standard might bottleneck the I/O demanding titles on Drake later down the line, so you will have to download data to the internal memory for performance.
Makes sense, a May release actually makes next gen versions of things like Pikmin 4 pretty damn likely, especially to align with Miyamoto's old intentions.
This isn't 2017's Nintendo. Switch 2 is almost guaranteed to succeed. Publishers should be eager to release early on the platform and keep selling as the userbase grows.« We » don’t know if there are /is one or multiple games exclusive ready … rumors, whispers.. are nothing official but no smoke without fire.
Your list is a good indicator of the potential of future switch 2 ports…
You can't really say "guaranteed" when risky transition moves like these are on the table. Just like every company, Nintendo is being careful about this upgrade and wants to make it seem the most valuable possible for everyone, not just a single demographic that has never really supported 3rd parties all that much.
I think going forward, for a year at least, most first party games will be solidly cross-gen, starting with Zelda, and of course including Pikmin 4.
This thing will launch solidly aimed at the hardcore audience, which are more likely to purchase third party software.
"A"ula for "Advanced"? or "Augmented"? After, added, addition, another, accession?
You can't get "instant" native versions from cloud games, that's just not how game development works. They'd need to spend time porting the game to the specific hardware, cloud games just run on PC servers.
That's always possible but there likely would've been evidence of something like that in the leaked NVN2 files. Assuming this hypothetical SoC got far enough into design to start implementing drivers and API features.
Rather than Aula/Hoag/etc. being console codenames, my understanding is that they're "platform configuration" codenames. In other words "Aula" references the configuration combination needed to support Mariko, an OLED screen, the new TV dock, the new speaker drivers (just making that last one up, but you get the point), etc. The actual codenames for the entire console are HAC, HDH, and HEG*. And of course the codename for the entirety of the Switch hardware/software platform is NX.
I find it very unlikely that Nintendo will allow the SoC to develop to the point of having its own API, as these problems would be detectable very early.
Switch had trouble running dark souls 1 which is also a PS3 game
It's not a bad idea, honestly. It keeps unbroken continuity with the existing Switch line and it provides an easy-enough way to distinguish hardware compatibility for later titles.
It didn't really have trouble at all. The game was delayed due to network issues or if you believe in conspiracies publisher politics.
I genuinely think this is what they'll name it.
