this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023

179 points (96.9% liked)

Nintendo

18298 readers

19 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

No NSFW content.
No hate speech or personal attacks.
No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
No console wars or PC elitism.
Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

Other Gaming Communities

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

179

Nvidia purportedly wants its name on the Nintendo Switch 2 due to custom chip work and limited DLSS 3.5 support (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 30 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[+] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

[removed by mod]

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

If they're going for "graphical performance", whatever that means, the could probably use DLSS 3 to upscale a muddy 360p internal resolution image. It'll be messy and gross, but fast.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Exactly. Nintendo gave up on competing with graphical fidelity after the Wii U.

The switch at launch was already 3 year old SOC and it broke all sales records

Bare minimum effort will be applied for the new model as well

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think you mean 'after the GameCube'.

And even then, the GC only sat as a middle-ground between the original Xbox and the PS2. Nintendo hasn't explicitly tried to make a graphical powerhouse since the N64.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

And only middle because Xbox was balls to the wall overpowered compared to the others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean you may be right…but when I think of the Wii U, it was the last time we got AAA ports of games like Ninja Gaiden, Assassins Creed and yeah…even Call of Duty. Since the switch, because of the underpowered specs, not many AAA games have had competent ports (looking at you mortal Kombat 1 switch port) and most AAA quality is now only first party from Nintendo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Which is a good thing, because 99.99% of AAA games have been total shit for more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I mean...it helps that the Switch launched out of cycle with Xbox and PlayStation, and also was $100+ cheaper than the others. Not to mention the advantage of it being portable. Which means someone in the household can play it without eating up a screen, or it can be brought on travel. Mine is indispensable on work trips. It also supports a variety of excellent local multiplayer games - which at least in my house, gets a shit load of use. Smash, Mariokart, Mario party, etc. are on constant rotation.

The PS5 digital is $400. The Xbox series X is $500. The Xbox series S which arguably does something similar to the switch, dropping the insistence on the highest graphical quality, is the only one in either this generation or the previous which compares in price, at $300. (Granted this is actually cheaper than the OLED Switch model, which is at $350).

I desperately wish Nintendo would release their IP on PC, but it'll be a cold day in hell before that happens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

After the WiiU? Nah man, the Wii was already way behind the rest and from then on out they stayed a generation worth of graphical development behind.

I honestly don't mind that at all but I am also not the target audience for the latest and greatest in graphics. I love a great indie roguelike just as much as "complete editions" of triple A games from a couple of years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They gave up with the GameCube, their lost console with consistent third party releases, it wasn't unreasonable to expect nay game would be on Nintendo back then. Now at best a bad cloud port is lauded.

I hate that they can do nothing and succeed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe with hyper-aggressive use of DLSS they can get most of the way there.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Always remember that 99% of the Nintendo leaks are just lies

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well this isn't un head of especially on Nintendo systems the gamecube and Wii said ATI on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not unheard of for nintendo to release a brand new earthbound game but that doesn't mean a leak around the idea is true. 99% of nitnendo leaks are made up by someone on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

99% of ~~nitnendo~~ leaks are made up by someone on Twitter.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean they used to do this kind of stuff with the ATI chips from (now AMD) in the past, right? I vaguely remember seeing an ATI sticker on my GameCube or Wii

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was definitely a red "ATI" logo on the GameCube, yes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

And also the Wii...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

At least on the Wii the ATI logo isn't a sticker, its actually physically on the plastic shell similar to the wii logo on the front

I sadlt can't tell you if its printed, laser etching or some other technique

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, logo is there. From BestBuy site.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it will be similar to the ATI branding on the Wii. Just a little grey logo in the corner.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Same with the GameCube. I'm looking at mine right now

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully after developing the switch 2 chip we see them work on updating their Shield line of Android TV boxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure shield is dead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's either dead or there's no need to update it because there isn't real competition in that space. I'm just wondering what they are going to do with this new mobile chip platform once the switch 2 is released. I doubt they only ever use it in the switch 2. I'm guessing they would want to release it (or a version of it) in some other hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean that could be... But it could sell not like there is a lot of other options. Most are shit except the Google TV Chromecast thingy and I guess the Xiaomi one. Roku maybe? Not sur show it is right now but in any case it's not that international here for example it's not a thing but Shield is available If they had some extra that made it worth it like proper hard drive support or who knows it could sell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Since when?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Good news, AMD is about to land a big contract

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Put it on the back cover, only see it if you open it up which is never.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's just a Easter egg for geeks.