116 points

Uh huh.

I mean sure, two outlets reporting it, but I’ll believe it when I see it. With the Switch Pro/2/U/360/Series N in particular, the leaks were always so outlandish and in the end turned out false, while we can clearly assume the overall news about a Switch successor being in development to be real, any specific piece of news I’d immediately discard and put into the “made up stuff”-folder for the time being.

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36 points

Remember when Switch was comparable to PS4?

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Or when they told us that you’d be able to cross platform with xbox and you play streaming xbox games to get better graphics.

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This report would make the switch more powerful than a steamdeck. I’ll believe it when I see it

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64 points

Doubt.

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Terrible title. “Switch 2 supports ray tracing and will use upscaling” is the summary. Which is obvious, it won’t be anywhere near consoles, it’s like 1/7th resolution.

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That’s not what the article says, the values in the patent are an example. It’s not out of realm of possibility to have something that can match at least the Series S when docked while still supporting a portable mode.

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Yeah damn click bait titles

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32 points

Compared to does not mean equal to… lol

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Honestly the swtcih is so far off in performance that if the new switch performs like the ps4 it’s already a win.

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Exactly. Oranges are comparable to apples, doesn’t mean they share much in common

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True, but it does suggest they are in the same league. Not saying it is, but able to be compared suggests that it may be as good in some aspects.

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I compared my wealth to Bill Gates and turns out he makes more money just existing for 1 minute than I will make in my entire life. But we are comparable.

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You are comparable, and what they said was not anywhere near over the top or outrageous.

Your disbelief in a product existing and making a joke out of what otherwise would be a proper conversation is honestly very sad.

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And even if some prototype device is, that doesn’t mean the production device will be, once things like heat and power usage have to really be accounted for.

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It doesn’t even matter a lot if it does have really good graphics capability. Nvidia is good at that (though whether they’d price that where Nintendo wants is questionable). The question is what Nvidia can give in a CPU, because the only ARM CPU out there that’s actually interesting in terms of efficient per core performance is Apple.

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the only ARM CPU out there that’s actually interesting in terms of efficient per core performance is Apple.

No it’s not

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I feel like I’m in the minority when I’m looking forward to Nintendo making a high-powered console for once. The last time their hardware was on par with or better than the rest of the industry was the Gamecube, which was an amazing little system.

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even then, the gamecube had mini discs instead of full sized ones, so games couldn’t be as big

the n64 was behind in a similar way, using cartridges when cds were starting to become the norm

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I dont think itll be high powered, thats just the reporter adding something for clickbait.

Im one to believe in Bobby Kottick mentioning that the Switch 2 is roughly the power of a PS4 as he was in contempt of the court when his leak of its performance was discussed. the handheld likely has better cpu performance though vs ps4, as its basically in the same playing field as the steam deck is, both companies who can sit and make thir 30% cut from developer games.

Tldr, dont expect Series S perf, expect steam deck performance with better battery and DLSS support to 4k (i personally believe itll target 1080p60, and use DLSS Performamce preset to upscale to 4k, as 1440p tvs arent common)

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Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.

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You’re not. I’ve been wanting this since the GameCube, the last Nintendo system that was built with performance in mind and advertised as such. The Wii was a step in the wrong direction, and it was all downhill from there as far as my head canon is concerned. I’m glad that Nintendo is finally catering to fans like us again after waiting patiently for 22 years.

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