MVG isn't some rando YouTuber. Feel free to call our bemused annoyance 'hissing', sure.
I mean some people clearly overreacted.
I don't think generalizing the whole thread as, "a bunch of vampires confronted by sunlight" helps the situation either. Some people overreacted. Some people were just frustrated.
I read a lot of stern rebuttals and jokey sardonic dismissals, including from myself. It's hard enough to gauge tone on the internet so I'm not going to say anyone 'overreacted' in particular. I wouldn't go as far as to say MVG is 'trolling' but I think that's just folks being bewildered at the insistence of this particular narrative. MVG does like to make jokey statements to stir the pot on Twitter but he made a whole video on this topic so this is a specific conversation he wants to have.
Only a certain metroidman does thatโฆ luckily they arenโt hereโฆ
how great will the paid ray tracing update to TotK will? great or very great?
In terms of resolution, I think people are being extraordinarily pessimistic.
Hahahaaaa!
Pedantic streak kicking in, but for the readers, MP4 is a container format, not the actual compression format. What you stick inside the MP4 may or may not be using lossy compression.
i will pay maybe 25 rupees if itโs great 30 at MAXIMUM if itโs very great
this is the kind of hype iโm here for
I think most people are aware that there are technical hurdles resulting from the new architecture. None of us expect them to simply flip a switch and enable it.
Oh no! Please don't speak his name here! I beg of you!
neither does flippant responses one of which was comparing MVG to SMD. But whatever. We're just gonna do whataboutism and that's just a waste of my time.
That's fine. If I'm to be honest I wouldn't consider your reaction as an overreaction. I find the BC stuff tiring as well because it has been weird for years. However, MVG's video isn't really that big of a deal. He's finally saying what he's been beating around the bush for quite a while now. I feel like the majority of people griping with it actually didn't listen to what he said. They just saw BC mentioned and it triggered some flippant response. He never said BC wasn't happening or unlikely because of some weird Nintendo reason. From my understanding he was just speculating what Nintendo could do for BC and in the beginning it sounded like he was more or less saying some Switch games may not be BC, which means very little. If Nintendo is doing BC, their games will be BC. Important games will be BC. That's seems obvious just like it seems obvious that a Switch successor will have BC haha.
Not sure that you've actually watched the snippet from DF I linked to, but this is kinda not true. If your definition of BC on [REDACTED] is 'My Nintendo games work with at most a ready-to-download patch', then I agree that this will likely happen, Nintendo will re-compile and maybe we even get some performance enhancements. But true BC, meaning I can play any non-Nintendo game from either the eShop or my physical cartridge, is harder than on PS5 or XBox.
Xenoblade Chronicles X was heavier than Smash on WiiU (almost 23GB):
I'm not even gassing it up, I'm just stating what we know to be the capabilities. People are lowballing it, expectations wise, because they think Nintendo is gonna Nintendo. Not realising that 1, Nintendo Switch was as advanced a gaming handheld as it could be at the time and so will this, naturally, and 2, this is also NVIDIA'S console, this is NVIDIA'S baby, this is NVIDIA LIGHTSPEED'S first party console. Nvidia know AMD has them beat in the console race by raw power because nobody wants Nvidia to make a stationary console. Absurd to think, I feel, that they wouldn't come out swinging with the best portable system they can muster.
"Aren't unlike" != "as difficult as or easier". Am I wrong to draw a comparison between the hurdles faced by Microsoft/Sony and what Nintendo and Nvidia have to do now? I didn't make an inference about the inherent difficulty because I don't have the technical knowledge to do so, but my stance is unchanged - their engineers most likely understood this 3-4 years ago and have some solution in the works. Could it be more difficult than PS5/Xbox? Sure. I'm not sure what that changes in the end, other than increased dev time and some incompatible titles. Still, I think most folks would be reasonably satisfied with 99% BC i.e. most of their purchases working on the next Switch, like PS4 on PS5 BC.
Ah, that was Project Atlantis.No probs, while we are at it, here is a story from the development, including a SoC design that got scrapped and reworked. It was Sharp running the show apparently which might explain how they got to keep the Sharp cpu.
(Story in comments)
A look at devices that have shaped mobile gaming
Our main theme at GDC this year is how Arm has helped shape mobile gaming for just over 25 years. So, let us tell you the story.community.arm.com
Xenoblade X is 19 GB. Also I thought Metroid Other M might be bigger, but they're within a couple hundred megabytes, at least as downloaded from the Wii U eShop.
That I agree with, but I am tone policing too much already so I'd rather someone else call that person out.
as a company you never respond to obviously wrong stuff if it's not affecting your valuation. this ain't doing shit, so Nintendo ain't even gonna look his wayWhat if MVG is playing 4D chess. Guess something that is obviously wrong knowing it would get picked up because of the building hype around Switch 2 news and his stature, and force Nintendo to respond to control the narrative
RT can be done in portable mode and has been demonstrated. if Nintendo does RT, it's gonna be in both modes, I think
What obvious reasons? There... Aren't... Any reasons.
UE5 will be the most prominent RT tool in many studios repertoire. it works very well as of 5.1. and it's way too early to say what "used seriously" means. I suspect a lot of replacement for screen space effects and Lumen GI for diffuse reflections
Did I put MP3 here and think โdo the kids today know what that is?โ then change the 3 to a 4 because it was faster?
Teardown exists, at the very least
teardown is very interesting. it stores data in voxels rather than BVH. with nvidia's research into voxels, I'm kinda surprised they didn't accelerate voxel RT
If [REDACTED]โs performance difference between docked and handheld looks like the current Switch, RT will be easier in handheld than docked mode, not harder.
They will not do that. That would be inefficient and make programming more difficult. Things you want to avoid for a developer friendly handheld like the Switch and its successors.
