Nintendo Switch Tech Speculation discussion

Sure Jaguar wasn't as much of an improvement over last gen's CPUs as the the GPU's were, yet that is not the sole reason NPCs vouldn't work in AC. Development time and budget were the bigger factors. Dead Rising on XBONE and that other zombie game demoed on ps4 (yet to come though) show both that it's possible to have thousands of NPCs on an open world game, and that it does excite the audience as those are the main selling points in those games.

 

Hitman Absolution had large crowds on PS3/X360.

 

But then again, how much do we really know? We know its a custom Nvidia Tegra chip and that's really about it. Everything else is speculation. Im not going to read to much into the video, yes it does look very nice, but is that in game footage, or simply real time rendered cut scene material? This could also be damn near point and click material, meaning there is very little interaction within the game other than exploration. Its hard to get a good idea of just how detailed all those trees and foliage actually are, made worse by the Youtube video compression. This could also be a 720p 30fps game, so its not hard to see how a custom Tegra chip could pull this off within that scope. Its promising none the less.

 

anyone get invited to their our ?

 

And the trailer will contain a single frame that flashes by "Trailer shown in-engine running at expected quality level for hardware"

 

GTA 5 PS3, flowers PS3, Crysis 3. The switch should be at least several times more powerful than a PS3.
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I was think of that demo for apparently the opposite reason. What Wii games looked that good?

 

Don't know, maybe Xenoblade Chronicles X ? Huge environments and grass i guess ?

 

Well it might just be me but I was impressed back in Tegra 3 time with the graphics it was capable of, while the hardware was nothing special.



nVIDIA obviously knows how to extract the the best quality and performance from their hardware. Couple that with a vertically integrated platform where they seem to control everything and I believe that sorcery might be real

 

venture beat confirming its maxwell, told you guys.

 

Citation?

EDIT: Found it here: http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/14/nintendo-switch-specs-less-powerful-than-playstation-4/

http://www.nintendo-insider.com/2016/12/rumour-nintendo-switch-uses-nvidia-maxwell-architecture/

 

The more important question is whether it's 20nm planar or 16nm FinFet.

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I am going to shake my fucking head if Nintendo makes the Switch... a portable device... 28nm... Maxwell or not... it better be FinFet...

 

it will probably be 20nm, nintendo probably locked the deal along time ago.

 

i don't think a citation is needed. eurogamer has multiple sources saying maxwell will be in the final hardware, yet people choose to ignore that because it doesn't sound good to them, now we have this source and arcadegirl confirming the same.

 

It is preferred when you're claiming other sources said something and this way it's easier for us to know if it's the same news we've already discussed or something new.

 

Eurogamer only said that development kit using X1, and not about the final hardware.

 

no. eurogamer said there sources all are certain that it will be maxwell in the final hardware.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...-mobile-games-machine-powered-by-nvidia-tegra

"It is worth stressing with a firm emphasis that everything we have heard so far points to Tegra X1 as the SoC of choice for Nintendo NX"

 

Well that is disappointing but at least it might mean it's more affordable than expected.