Lame if true. The switch is painfully underpowered at this point.
Depends, the faves that are made purely for it in mind are great in my opinion. Animal Crossing, mario odyssey and wonder and the like. All look great and run great.
I agree, but they will undoubtedly be able to do more with more capable hardware. I was also disappointed by the switch’s relative lack of gimmicks beyond its hybrid nature. I miss streetpass, Miiverse, etc. I hope they can get back to some of that on the next gen hardware.
I’m kinda glad it’s devoid of gimmicks. A lot of them felt like it was just Nintendo was putting them in there for the sake of having gimmicks.
I also agree. I hope the really blow it out of the water with both power and bringing back some of that ol’ nintendo charm. Switch feels very lonely with how clinical it is.
Weren’t there some troubles with Zelda? I think BOTW? The hardware wasn’t capable enough and it got all choppy in some parts of the world.
Yeah it got pretty bad. Don’t get me wrong, it’s amazing that totk and botw runs as well as it does, but I consider it a tragedy that neither game is allowed to run at it’s full potential.
Botw was a wii u game that’s why. Both versions have different pros and cons performance wise and i think that’s because of the change of scope and systems and whatnot so i don’t think that’s a fair example. And because of that i think it also extends to totk somewhat since it’s building on top of that already slightly shoddy foundation
It was painfully underpowered when it launched. The SoC in it was already 2 years old, the Switch is basically a mid-range smartphone from 2015 that launched in 2017.
Wasn’t the SOCs in Xbox and PlayStation also old on launch.
It takes a fuckton of time to make hardware like that.
The SoCs in the Xbox One and PS4 both use highly custom AMD Jaguar SoCs with more powerful graphics capability than AMD included in their home release version of their Jaguar APUs. The Jaguar architecture launched mid-2013. The Xbox One and PS4 both launched in November 2013.
Compared to the Switch, which uses a slightly modified nVidia Tegra X1 chip, that is actually underclocked. The nVidia Shield TV was more powerful as it did not underclock the X1 chip (Switch is about 780Mhz (docked BTW, an undocked Switch runs at a measly 300MHz) while Shield TV is 1Ghz). The Tegra X1 launched in 2015, and the Switch launched in 2017.
I can’t say I’m surprised, based on the rumors we’ve been seeing so far, but it is disappointing
Really hope the next 3D Mario is a launch title, very much looking forward to what comes after Odyssey. Bowsers Fury was good, but didn’t have the replayability of the other 3D titles
I’m really disappointed with Wonder too, it just wasn’t all that fun or challenging. Probably least favourite mainline 2D. They need to be making these more frequently and there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.
Orbital updates for Russel’s teapot.
Sure, just like the “leakers” guessed it would come out last year, and the year before that, and the year before that… don’t worry, just keep moving that goalpost, you’ll get it right one day.
Yeah, this time the “leaks” are “different”, just like they were “different” last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and…
