Recent content by Eteric

It'd be nice, but I'm betting they won't upgrade the screen. They'd probably rather have the extra battery life. Extra bandwidth would help a lot, though.

Quick question. If there's a mid-gen Switch revision (like the 3DS, PS4, Xbox got) would it be possible to patch these games to take advantage of better hardware? I don't see why it wouldn't, but I'm not a tech guru to be honest.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I'm saying. And yeah, it's possible that the Doom port is the best that can be done. But I have my reservations about that since it's not ID themselves doing the porting. I hope at some point the engine officially supports Switch, though. That would be pretty rad.

Sorry, my bad, poor wording on my part. It's my understanding that UE4 and Unity work with the Switch out of the box. ID Software's engine does not and it's why they had to outsource the port. Same with Rocket League I believe (UE3 isn't natively compatible with Switch). I could be incorrect of...

Still might not be completely correct. We don't know how long they were working on this port. I think we should also remember that the Doom engine isn't native to Switch like Unreal 4 and Unity are. For that reason alone, the port probably isn't the best the Switch can do. Still pretty nice for...

For the most part I don't think they care about 4k that much. Do we know the adaption rate 4k is at?

I'm kind of curious though, since it seems most of the successors to the Switch's SoC are going to be for smart cars. I wonder if the Switch will be enough of a success to get Nvidia to put the time and effort into a new gaming focused SoC. The fact that the thing can run Doom and Wolfenstein 2...

It was late so I should have probably worded myself a bit better. I'm guessing a Switch successor would show up around 2021 or 2022. Where do you guys think Nvidia's mobile technology will be around that time? I wonder if the Switch's success will make more companies consider making more...

What do you guys think the Switch successor will be using?

Still pretty amazing that we have mobile technology that can run this stuff (albeit a bit modified). Hopefully future engines are as flexible as ID has gotten theirs. Really impressive.

I think it's more because keeping 4 versions of the game updated would be a pain in the ass, not because the Switch can't run it. They may change their minds in the future if the user base gets big enough. It's an encouraging sign, though. I'm curious as to see how the final version of Doom on...

I seriously doubt this. I think that they're having trouble getting the NAND since Apple has more clout than them. It's been reported on before. Wii U definitely wasn't supply constrained. I worked at Gamestop during that time. It might have been restrained for like a week or two.

Yeah, hopefully the backlash is bad enough for them to put it as a higher priority. Not to mention that these features should be on the system as well.

Yeah, mobile is moving really fast. I'm just kind of wondering where it'll be in around 2020 and if Nvidia will have any answer for it. I'm a little worried that Nintendo will pull a Wii/Wii U and just shrink the chip and add more cores/overclock it. The good thing about the Switch is it's...

Wii was harder to swallow. Most TVs at the time didn't upscale very well. These days I think modern TVs actually upscale way better than older HDTVs do mainly because most content is still in 1080p and making that content look good on your TV is probably a good selling point. I do love me some...