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.
This report would make the switch more powerful than a steamdeck. I’ll believe it when I see it
Doubt.
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.
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.
Yeah damn click bait titles
Compared to does not mean equal to... lol
Honestly the swtcih is so far off in performance that if the new switch performs like the ps4 it's already a win.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly. Oranges are comparable to apples, doesn’t mean they share much in common
Nintendo never makes high power consoles that's not really their area. So I'd be surprised if this is true.
And what does PS5 equivalent graphics even mean? We just talking screen resolution or are we saying it can push the same poly count. I'd be prepared to accept it might get 1080p maybe 4k on a good day, but that'll only be on low poly assets.
Apparently the ps5 comparison is because they ran the same tech demo that the ps5 did 2 years ago. But that doesn't really mean anything. At this point Nintendo may still be working with a wide range of specs on prototypes before finalizing a decision about what the console will be.
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.
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
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)
Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.
I find this hard to believe. At this point Switch 2 "rumors" have just been used for clickbait now.
I think they're working on it but it won't be for awhile.
Nintendo is of course famous for never releasing obsolete hardware
As per for Nintendo
I've got a steam deck and a host of other steam deck competitors that do that and more now.
I’ve got steam deck and ROG ally, both barely do 720p 45fps PS4 pro level games, and forget about battery life.
The appeal of Nintendo console is first party exclusives and whatever the new gimmick may be (I don’t mean that word as a bad thing, I have loved most of their gimmicks). Powerful hardware just means that it can potentially have a good third party support, so that you’re not left playing just the first party games.
Maybe I'm in the minority (doubtful since the switch is super popular) but I don't need the Switch2 to be better than current/next gen as far as hardware goes. It's portability, flexibility and funativity are what sells the thing for me. I've got a PC if I want to play fancy pants AAA games. One day, I'll probably have a Steam Deck. I like playing Zelda and Mario, etc. on my Switch like it's a the Super-Mega-Gameboy that I dreamed about as a youth. I sometimes play it docked, but probably 80+% of my game time on it is in handheld mode.
If the Switch 2 was basically a PS5-esque console (non-mobile, regular console), I'm sure I'll eventually pick one up to play Nintendo exclusives, but mostly that would just hasten my purchase of a Steam Deck.
Even if it was portable but had so much performance I wouldn't want it bc then the battery life would be bad.
I'll believe they made something on the same level as the competitors when the console actually comes out. An unreleased demo console is not something you should be using as a benchmark for how good the visuals are since the product will most likely go through a significant amount of changes in-between the demo and release.
Even then, there's the chance that if the console is coming out a few days later, there is no guarantees they didn't use an old demo console that is outdated compared to what will be released or wasn't made specifically with the goal in mind of overselling the console by pouring resources into making the demo console actually better than the release one.
My expectations for the switch successor are reasonable I think
Backwards compatible with the Switch
performance boost when docked (I’d be perfectly happy with solid 1080p 60fps)
Mobile performance of 720p 60fps (lower detail settings than docked)
And I dunno just get a modern fucking friend/online system or at the very least let me integrate discord lol
meh doesn't seem too likely
To use the PS5 as an example, it's based on Zen 2 and RDNA 2, both of which are now deprecated. It would not be surprising for Nintendo to match them at this point in the cycle.
The Steam Deck uses the same architectures by the way, with different core counts and a few more differences in capabilities
Yes it is surprising, it’s a high TDP desktop x86 SoC vs a low TDP mobile ARM SoC. Not close.
Did Nintendo announce that Switch 2 is ARM?
I don’t know. It’s obviously arm. They partner with Nvidia, they want backward compat, and it’s a mobile device.
lol, 3 years into the current gen and switch 2 only competes. Seriously
If it's portable, that's a game changer.
Batteries haven’t advance far enough to make this headline possible
True, it's probably microfusion reactors.
True. I don't think that would be possible though, considering the power of the current handhelds like steam deck and its competitors. I don't think it'll be even as powerful as a steam deck tbh
Steam deck and similar devices are 500 dollars and up, unless Nintendo is ready to sell devices that expensive, there’s no way Switch 2 is going to be on the same range of processing power.
Right - if it's portable and has the graphics of a ps5, it'll cost thousands, not hundreds lol. There's just no way, unless the "visuals comparable" is to be taken literally and just means they are capable of being compared
Aside from possibly the N64 and GameCube, Nintendo has never tried to push technology in that way.
And it's been true since the very first console. The Master System was more powerful than the NES, and the Genesis/Mega Drive was more powerful than the Super NES (arguably; the Sega CPU was far more powerful than Nintendo's). Same is true for its portables.
They've always prioritized per-unit margins. It's a conservative approach, but it means profit on every console sold.
So there's a 0% chance this console is actually as powerful as a PS5. However, there's a good chance there are hardware and software techniques being used to upscale a lower resolution image.
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