I remember you sharing some videos showing off how crazy billboards can look if you've just got enough of them.
I dont think its worth reading anything into it.
I've seen this with Nintendo repeatedly on DF. It seems to me that they enjoy Nintendo as gamers - John is a proper Nintendo fan, Rich seems to really love portable devices and appreciates the Switch for that reason, Alex is a PC gamer down to the core - but so much of their analysis (and industry insight) is about bleeding edge tech that they miss the mark with Nintendo sometimes.
Delay or typo?
Typo. Holiday 2022 for M+RDelay or typo?
Can you link where he said the switch version of botw us unoptimized?
Delay or typo?
afaik he hasn't said it was unoptimized... he talked about specifically making the gameplay the same between the two in a mechanical sense, taking out a lot of the 2nd screen stuff from wii u but nothing about optimization/performance/graphics that I can see, though it might be in the GDC talk they did?:
Yea, but this idea that there will be a “true next gen” a few more years from now, is just ridiculous. Drake is too powerful for that.
Yes, it's in the GDC talk. The Switch version of Breath of the Wild runs on an identical engine to the WiiU version, containing no Switch specific optimizations. They were able to up the resolution in docked mode and increase the sample rate of sound effects, but neither of these were engine optimizations, just taking advantage of the existing spare CPU/GPU cycles that the Switch had available.
That's the idea, third parties will decide what it'll be. Just like GBC, Nintendo never intended to release exclusive games for it but didn't keep third parties from doing so. Later the system proved to be much popular and there were exclusives all around, Nintendo decided to join in on the fun with titles like Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Kirby Tilt n Tumble and the Oracle games.
Just buy cartridge or 512gb sd card.
Good luck selling that to your consumers, who you need to build trust and respect with. Want to update your game? Well just buy a $40 micro SD card, no problem! Or they could just make it a new console, continue to sell some (but not all) new games on the switch for a year or two and then transition into a new generation like the PS5 is doing. That makes a lot more sense to me than releasing a 15x stronger pro console and somehow trying to develop all your games for two very different platforms. I mean we've seen all the work, blood sweat and tears that went into getting games like the witcher running on the switch, and in that case it's coming from a console that is only 5x stronger. Imagine Nintendo having to make every single new game compatible between a console that is 15x stronger and the switch. It's laughable to think they'd even try.
the simple answer is:
We can be pretty confident Nintendo intends to make exclusives for this new hardware, even if they don't do so right away. It's a very different sort of upgrade from the GBC.
I mean, this is a pretty big semantics argument. It's been ongoing in the thread since the current set of rumors first emerged. New consoles are much less distinct from their predecessors than they used to be.
I agree with you totally ILikeFeet, but we have a term for this, it's called a new console. A new video game hardware device that plays a significant number of exclusive games with more powerful hardware is called a new console. We have many of these releases, like the PS5 for example.
It is only a semantics argument because certain people are trying very hard to make it one. In fact, if you ask any random person on the street if the PS5 is a new console or a revision of the PS4, 80% would say it's a new console and the other 20% would ask you what the hell a PS5 is. There is no real debate here. A new piece of gaming hardware that greatly improves power and gets exclusive titles is a new console. It's not the vast majority who think the PS5 is a new console who are wrong, it's the geniuses claiming it isn't. Similarly, if a new Nintendo console launches, is 15x stronger, has new features and exclusive games - only the people here will claim it's a revision, no one else in the world.
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Yeah, it's only a semantics argument because people refuse to accept others may have a different arbitrary definition than their own arbitrary definition and keep pestering them to stop using it "incorrectly", despite everyone understanding very well what the other person is talking about and being super tired of this semantics arguments.
Its almost as if people don't know what they are talking about, at least when it comes to comparisons...
So the game boy color, dsi, and n3DS were all new consoles and the wii is not a new console
Don't do that. Nate posts in thread, and is the source of several leaks that we're basing our analysis on, the notion that he hasn't done "actual research" is ridiculous. Disagree with analysis all you want, or reasoning, or dispute facts, but don't be an asshole to an active, decent member of this community.
Dear poster, here are a few rules to stick to if you want to be a contributor to any thread on any forum on the internet:
