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Fullstack

@skywake Jesus you just can't help but tangle yourself can you?

>If your takeaway from that last bit it to attempt to skewer me for agreeing with someone who cited the Series S then it's clear you still don't understand what I meant when I said this will be like a portable PS4 in the same way the Switch is like a portable Wii U.

Woof this is even worse than before.

The generational difference between rdna/ampere and GCN are unresolvable by raster performance. As I already told you that went in one ear and out the other raster performance doesn't determine what generation games can be played, cpu, memory and feature set do.

The switch is most definitely NOT like a portable wii u, even though that's not what you said you said ps360. Nintendo was already doing that, it was called the Mont Blanc and the switch kicks the ever living stuffing out of it.

The switch was a portable gtx 900 series.

>But by all means keep posting graphs that make a theoretical docked Switch 2 look competitive with the PS5.

Competitive with the ps5?
This?

That's your takeaway? Of that? That that showed a machine that was competitive with the ps5?

So..... you are hardware illiterate and instead of reading the data you are trying to create a story about what you believe was my intent, likely based on projections of yourself. Great..

But like even if you can't read it, how did you not catch on? Everytime you tried that nonsense "Oh look you're saying the switch 2 is going to be a ps5" I told you to stop lying about what i said and posted that graph. Because it clearly shows that's not what I said.

No, that graph does not show a machine that is competitive with the ps5, it shows a machine that is 1/3rd the raster power of a ps5 with better hardware raytracing, mixed precision that loses out to amd rapid math because of the sheer raster shader lead (not the case with series s), and a clear win in ML over an amd card, because Duh.

>and citing shader counts ignoring entirely thermal and power constraints?

You're trying this again? Honestly I should have realized what was going on with you when you said these words and then proceeded to show you didn't know what they meant when you accidentally proposed a "realistic" take which was clocked.... ***higher*** than what I said. Just... how. How do you mess up like that?

Ampere is typically clocked around 1.7 ghz, I have provided a very conservative clockspeed of 1 Ghz, which is a lower ratio than the switches down clock from the X1' 1.to the switches gm20b, which was 1.188 Ghz to .768 Ghz. You ha e nothing to stand on here besides parroting things you've heard that you thought would apply. They dont.

>Keep dismissing entirely portable mode if it helps you sell this nonsense.

Once again. Why on earth would we compare portable mode to a machine that has no portable mode? That's really dumb.

>We really shouldn't be setting expectations for this to be hardware that will comprehensively stomp the PS4 in actual real world usage. Because it won't. This won't be hardware that runs GTA5 at V.High at 4K/30 locked, it'll be more like V.High locked at 1080p/30, a whisker away from the PS4

I dont think gtav or vi will ever come to switch because of gta online being the golden goose and Nintendo not having an online infrastructure friendly to Rockstar needs.

But we have already established this was nonsense. Once again you have to lie wildly and gigantically about what I said, and a locked 30fps would be a heck of a lot more than a hairsbreadth over ps4's abysmal gta online performance because of it's abysmal cpu.... which yes, gets comprehensively stomped by the cortex a78 series in every conceivable way.

>Nintendo also tracked our purchases on Wii U and 3DS but these services didn't talk to each other or carry to Switch

Those aren't cloud saves of the same game version from the same system just running in bc.

Those are 3 seperate ports for 3 seperate systems, and local system saves for 3ds and wii u, and a dead account system that got replaced by the new one, and never ever said it was going to be brought forward. Literally the opposite.

That's not even in the same ballpark as what's being talked about.

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Fullstack

skywake

@Fullstack
Yes, to the lurkers that graph most definitely does make it look like you're saying the Switch 2 will be closer to PS5 than PS4. Because you are using a linear scale and putting different metrics right alongside each other. Both of us know that it isn't but your choice of graphs and your insistence on arguing with me on this is going to mislead people

And again, for the millionth time, I'm not saying it will be exactly like the PS4. I haven't said that once. I am saying the Switch 2 will be like a portable PS4 in the same way that the Switch is like a portable Wii U. i.e. consoles within the same order of magnitude, within the same "generation" of performance. As opposed to being alongside PS5 and, in portable mode, PS4 Pro

That you keep on insisting I am wrong only highlights your refusal to understand what I meant. So I'll keep saying that your intent is to say it's closer to the PS5 because that's the only way you can logically disagree with what I actually meant

RE: the way Nintendo handles infrastructure. Again, damn straight they're "not the same thing". But Nintendo has form being fairly lazy in this space. I'm not setting my expectations high in terms of how they'll handle purchases through this transition until it's spelled out for us

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Fullstack

@skywake

>Yes, to the lurkers that graph most definitely does make it look like you're saying the Switch 2 will be closer to PS5 than PS4. Because you are using a linear scale and putting different metrics right alongside each other. Both of us know that it isn't but your choice of graphs and your insistence on arguing with me on this is going to mislead people

Enough with this nonsense. I'm not talking to lurkers I'm talking to you. You are the only one misleading people by literally lying left and right six ways to Sunday and misrepresenting everything I say with this absolute ridiculous garbage excuse of "its a show for the lurkers".

I dont buy for one single second anymore you actually knew what that table showed because literally the only other thing i can think of for you possibly doing what youve done in here, is you were just lying lying lying lying and lying over and over again in a show for the casual lurkers for... reasons. And you don't come across as a chaos troll or whatever.

I asked you in the first post here if you understood hardware and you said ****YES**** but you were a software guy. I didn't ask if the lurkers did.

And then you claim you want to visually minimize the differences with a logarithmic scale and somehow THATS not misleading? Get out of here, thats nonsensical and ridiculous.

>And again, for the millionth time, I'm not saying it will be exactly like the PS4. I haven't said that once. I am saying the Switch 2 will be like a portable PS4 in the same way that the Switch is like a portable Wii U. i.e. consoles within the same order of magnitude, within the same "generation" of performance. As opposed to being alongside PS5 and, in portable mode, PS4 Pro

The switch WAS NOT a portable wii u in the way you are saying, not even remotely close in any conceivable way.

Nintendo WAS making that, it was called the Mont Blanc, FOR THE FIFTH TIME the switch curbstomps it. The switch was a portable gtx 900 series.

In the same way the switch 2 will NOT be a portable fricking GCN generation gpu. That was the switch, because Duh. It was a portable gtx 900 series.

The gtx 980 ti and the rtx 2060 are both 6 tflop machines they are NOT the same generation, because oh my God duh. They are 3 generations apart:

Most of the time the 2060 wins with a clear 10-20%. Same settings 3 generations apart, a card 2 classes lower, 10-20% ahead. That's not the complete and absolute beating that budget ampere laptop gave gtav ps4 with a *****200 Percent whooping****** but it's typical. Well, until you turn on dlss in a supported game. Then it's clubbing baby seals. Typically, as the resolution goes higher and the graphics features increase, the lead tends to widen for the newer generation. Just the way it is.

But that video shows another thing, sometimes, particularly on old games well optimized to old architectures, that don't support new more powerful feature sets to do things, the old system runs the old game as well or better. Now that's not the case with gtav ps4 vs ampere budget laptop, ps4 gets beat like it owes money, not 10 or 20% as shown woth these 3 generation apart gpu's, but a 200%+ blowout.... But with your insistance over and over and over again on a ps360 Era game, and desperately avoiding talking about modern games at all costs, I'm starting to wonder if you assumed it did work like this and just didn't know it got its boots blown off.

Like you say you are lying about what I say because thats some kind of..... show you put on for lurkers? So is purposefully using old games incapable of taking advantage of new hardware part of the 'lurker show'? Do you think the lurkers are too dumb to catch on to your trick? Or do you just not understand how that works? Are you the chaos elemental or just in over your head? Help me out here, make your behavior make sense.

>That you keep on insisting I am wrong only highlights your refusal to understand what I meant. So I'll keep saying that your intent is to say it's closer to the PS5 because that's the only way you can logically disagree with what I actually meant

Closer to the ps5 than what? The ps4? Uh yeah, it's closer to the ps5 than the ps4 is to the ps5. It's got more shader cores, that are more powerful, it can clock higher, has more warps per sm/cu, more warps in flight, can process warps in less cycles, and ampere gets 40-50% closer to its peak theoretical than gcn can. And that's only 1/3rd the gpu. We havent even talked about the cpu. And hoo boy does th ps4 cpu get its butt beat. That's, not even something you can argue about. What are you doing? Why?

>the way Nintendo handles infrastructure. Again, damn straight they're "not the same thing". But Nintendo has form being fairly lazy in this space. I'm not setting my expectations high in terms of how they'll handle purchases through this transition until it's spelled out for us.

Then why did you use something completely unsuitable as a comparison or 'evidence' that you knew "damn straight" was not remotely the same thing?

If your entire argument was just "because nintendo", you could have just said that from the beginning instead of lying?

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Fullstack

skywake

"Closer to the ps5 than what? The ps4? Uh yeah, it's closer to the ps5 than the ps4 is to the ps5"

Really there isn't much value in continuing this discussion when people are tying themselves into knots to disagree like this. Clearly Switch 2 will be closer to the PS5 than the PS4 is to the PS5. It's going to land above the PS4 (docked) and that's how numbers work. If S2 > PS4 and PS5 > S2 then (PS5-PS4) < (PS5-S2). But any honest reading of what I said would not have responded like this because that's very clearly not and never was what I meant

An honest response would have actually responded to what I said. That the Switch 2 will be closer to the PS4 in actual real world use, including portable mode, than it (Switch 2) is to the PS5 in actual real world use. Not shader counts, not AI acceleration in isolation, actual real world use running actual games. i.e. I'm contending that yes, S2 > PS4, especially docked, however in actual use (S2/PS4) < (PS5/S2). Notice the division? That's because we care about the ratio here. Because it's a naturally exponential comparison

We're not going to be picking this thing up and running modern AAA games at details similar to the PS5. We are probably going to get something far closer to the PS4. Locked 30/60fps at 1080p with maybe a dash of DLSS to cover the corners. Maybe some RT at the edges. Certainly better than the PS4, especially for some newer titles. And there'll be some things possible on this that couldn't have been done on PS4. But even so, we'll still be comfortably within the PS4 generation as opposed to being something that can be described as a portable PS5

It's not that difficult to understand. Although maybe I'm setting myself up for misery by expecting understanding from someone who thinks a log scale for inherently exponential tasks is "lying"

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Fullstack

@skywake that was a dump. I'm starting to get the real picture here and why you make completely made up litmus tests though, and its dissappointing.

>Really there isn't much value in continuing this discussion when people are tying themselves into knots to disagree like this. Clearly Switch 2 will be closer to the PS5 than the PS4 is to the PS5. It's going to land above the PS4 (docked) in most aspects and that's how numbers work. If S2 > PS4 and PS5 > S2 then (PS5-PS4) < (PS5-S2). But any honest reading of what I said would not have responded like this because that's very clearly not and never was what I meant.

What even is this. You're mad that you were forced to agree with me? Then why beat that silly drum?

>An honest response would have actually responded to what I said though. That the Switch 2 will be closer to the PS4 in actual real world use, including portable mode, than it (Switch 2) is to the PS5 in actual real world use.

I've stated multiple times and even shown complete visuals over and over and over again:

Ps4: 1.8 Tflops
Switch 2: 3.072 Tflops
Ps5: 10 Tflops

What are you talking about?

Why are you yapping about made up arguments from imaginary people whenever you respond to my posts instead of what's in my posts?

The problem you are having is that does not mean the switch 2 will be a gcn generation equivalent machine like a ps4 like you keep trying to claim Not even close. Thats like saying the gtx 980ti and the rtx 2080 were the same generation machines. It's just wrong. You don't round down to the lowest denominator and throw away everything else, that's ridiculous. There were something like four fricking gpu generations between ps4 and 5, what is wrong with you?

>Not shader counts.

I'm sorry to break it to you but this is literally a massive part of where performance comes from. And trust me you REALLY want to stick with this and stay as far away from real world as possible because it only gets worse and worse and worse for the ps4 when you involve things like real world shader occupancy, cpu bottlenecking, opmem cache, Warps in flight scheduling etc. You think hiding in real world performance because we don't have a switch 2 to test yet will help you, but it really wont because ampere is a very well known quantity and gpu scaling is easy. Remember how gtav on ps4 got its brakes beat off by 200+% by a budget bargain bin laptop? Yeahhhh..... it did that with only 4GB of vram.

>not AI acceleration in isolation.

They were never shown in isolation.

>actual real world use running actual games. i.e. I'm contending that yes, S2 > PS4, especially docked, however in actual use (S2-PS4) < (PS5-S2).

What Is this even trying to say lol.

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Fullstack

skywake

Fullstack wrote:

I've stated multiple times and even shown complete visuals over and over and over again:
Ps4: 1.8 Tflops
Switch 2: 3.072 Tflops
Ps5: 10 Tflops

Lets do some maths. How many times does 1.8 go into 3? 1.67 times. How many times does 3 go into 10? 3.33 times. Is 1.67 bigger or smaller than 3.33? It's not hard

Fullstack wrote:

The problem you are having is that does not mean the switch 2 will be a gcn generation equivalent machine like a ps4 like you keep trying to claim Not even close. Thats like saying the gtx 980ti and the rtx 2080 were the same generation machines. It's just wrong

This is a forum for discussing gaming consoles. When people talk about generations they're referring to console generations. You know this, it's not exactly a hard thing to miss. So I can only assume that you are being deliberately obtuse

So ok, lets all step back for a second and recap. Full transparency, with graphs. My original point was basically this, using numbers as provided by @Fullstack here. Red highlighted area goes from half of the 3TFLOPS @Fullstack guestimates, based on how hard they underclocked the OG Switch for portable mode. The top of the red area is the full 3TFLOPS

The yellow section is the same area but 2X, to account for a potential perceived jump in real world performance that some titles may be able to achieve through things like DLSS. This I believe is a tad optimistic but lets humour @Fullstack and give the full 2X
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My argument, from the start, is that given we're living comfortably in that red area this is going to be more generally a PS4-like console experience. i.e. for the purposes of this forum, where we talk in the language of console hardware, if you were to describe this hardware in a single throw away bullet point? You might well say that this is going to be a portable console with power similar to the PS4 and Steam Deck. We will not be hitting PS5 tier performance here, we will be comfortably doing PS4 tier performance

The argument from @Fullstack is that I am wrong because these three things are not identical
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And my issue with @Fullstack is that presenting it like this, especially as a rebuttal to my argument about broad bands of performance, is INCREDIBLY misleading

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skywake

Fullstack wrote:

>actual real world use running actual games. i.e. I'm contending that yes, S2 > PS4, especially docked, however in actual use (S2-PS4) < (PS5-S2).

What Is this even trying to say lol.

Sorry for that one, I realised after I posted it but before you had finished with your wall of text that difference isn't the best way to go. Because we care about ratios a linear comparison would, as you would be well aware, makes this comparison less flattering for your argument than it needed to be. As 3-1.8 vs 10-3 looks far worse for you than the more reasonable comparison that considers the ratio and compares 3/1.8 vs 10/3

I amended my post to correct this and explained further what that calculation was in the post above

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Hyrule_Rainclouds

@Fullstack I hestitate to insert myself here, but I've read through this entire thread and you seem really, really angry for some reason and to be taking offense for arbitrary reasons. And it just seems so bizarre to be arguing about any of this stuff when the "Switch 2" hasn't even been announced yet, so we only have hypotheticals to go on. Also, I think you and @skywake are discussing different things. To most people, none of this data will even matter. What will matter is what games it gets and how "pretty" they look.

Anyway, I think this thread was meant to be fun discussion. Surely there's no need for anyone to get upset? We might get some kind of Direct this week, here's hoping! What third party games are people hoping come to "Switch 2"? When does everyone think it will be announced? I've heard some people say March, so we could be just weeks away! Kind of exciting. I just kind of hope they bring back Streetpass or some equivalent and maybe the Mii Plaza and Mii Plaza games. Streetpass is one of my favorite features ever, and I really miss it! What are some features others are interested in? Have a blessed week, everyone!

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@FishyS well if digital and physical purchases are a thing, it would make sense to transfer ALL the data saved. I don’t remember a console that didn’t transfer save data along with the actual game

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Fullstack

@skywake >Lets do some maths. How many times does 1.8 go into 3? 1.67 times. How many times does 3 go into 10? 3.33 times. Is 1.67 bigger or smaller than 3.33? It's not hard

Duh. No, it's not hard, so why, every single time I post this very straight forward Information in response to your massive "Lie show for the lurkers" do you lie lie and make up stories about what I have said? And for a completely made up and pointless.... you cant even call it a metric, it's just blithering nonsense.

*****I am the one who has been posting those accurate numbers not you****

So please explain how you turned those numbers into your lie 'show for lurkers' about me saying the switch 2 is really close to the ps5? You can't, because it's a lie.

>This is a forum for discussing gaming consoles. When people talk about generations they're referring to console generations.

This might mean something if game consoles had their own completely discrete line of cpu's and gpu's instead of LITERALLY taking them from the same place as everywhere else.

This is a complete and absolute gish gallop based on a fake made up premise with the sole intent to obsfucate and misinform.

>And my issue with @Fullstack is that presenting it like this, especially as a rebuttal to my argument about broad bands of performance, is INCREDIBLY misleading

This is complete purposefully misleading nonsense.

Go on actually explain HOW those metrics are misleading. I dont think you can.

Or better yet, explain to people WHY you keep trying to use a ps360 Era game to lie with, explain what happens to that blue bar, or your ps4's place in the "red zone" when modern graphics from current games are used. Let's say ray tracing, which is rapidly becoming a minimum requirement. What happens to the ps4's blue bar, because it doesn't have a green ray trace bar? Oh it plummets to nothing. Not ps5, when it's hardware raytrace from its tmu's run out it has plenty of general purpose shaders (blue bar) and a more than powerful enough cpu to cover the slack.

What happens when your game has tons and tons of scripts and simulations to run that require high throughput compute but don't require full fp32 precision? Switch 2 and ps5 have that whole orange bar to use. Ps4 has to fall back to its tiny blue bar or pathetic cpu and waste its fp32/int32 precision until that blue bar is gone, the cpu is completely bottlenecked, and only a tiny fraction of the needed compute throughput done.

What about mesh shaders or primitive shaders? What happens, because ps4 doesn't have them, when the switch 2 is processing entire meshes in one call, and ps4 still has to issue one single vertex at a time through the primitive pipeline?

It yet again plummets to nothing because it's a very old very outdated architecture.

The reason it's important not to HIDE those very important modern performance metrics like you keep trying to do, is they are the performance that makes sure your blue bar Actually performs as close to its peak as possible.

Without them you dont actually GET that blue bar, because it's what has to try and cover the missing performance from the other metrics. Your blue bar and red zone for the ps4? They go bye bye. HARD

Ps5 has enough sheer shader cores clocked high enough, and a cpu powerful enough to spend 2 or 3 tflops covering ray trace after the tmu's are spent and still stay ahead of a a tiny mobile ampere in resolution and performance. It gets curbstomped by an equivalent sized ampere gpu, but thats not what the ga10f is. It's a smaller gpu than the ps5. But it's 3x larger than the steam deck. Exactly.

Ps4 does not. And it's not even close.

Stop misinforming people. Especially while championing yourself as the exact opposite with horrendously bad faith arguments.

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Fullstack

FishyS

I'll second @Hyrule_Rainclouds that perhaps this argument should pause until the Switch 2 is actually announced and some more details are verified? Although the ongoing technical discussion has been interesting, it seems to be circling the drain a bit at this point. And there will likely be more things to speculate on after this week's direct does or doesn't happen.

FishyS

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skywake

I think my previous post, which litterally used the same figures being thrown my way, explained what I meant fairly well. As @Hyrule_Rainclouds said, nobody cares about the raw numbers. They don't really matter. What matters is what games it will run and how well they'll run. The only way to see that is to actually see games running on the hardware which, at this stage, we cannot do. So we need a point of comparison

Given the level of power we can expect and given this will be hardware that needs to be portable? While not perfect by any means PS4 and Steam Deck are probably the most well understood analogues for performance we have

This is litterally my one and only point that I've been trying to get across for these last pages. It has been clear for a while now that I'm talking into a void here so.... let's leave it there

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Keman

I'm bothy so impressed and confused by that some people (here and out there) still flexes their novice armchair expertise (99.9% of them has zero experience with actual programming) day after day for years now. Why is the specs a such HUGE deal for many people?
Why not just play games? Instead of staring on some numbers and measuring with each others *******?

It's always the games which counts for Nintendo in the end.
This has been a thing since 2018 that "Switch 2" aka "Switch Pro" were gonna coming on 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and now on 2024 according all those "leakers", "insiders", "analysts", "armchair experts" etc...

It's extremely seldom that the most powerful console of the generation prevails on the end.

NES were weaker than Master System
SNES were massively inferior to Neo*Geo (outside CD-based consoles)
PSX were considerably weaker than N64
PS2 were dwarfed by Gamecube and completely outclassed by Xbox
Wii was, was, w-was.. pa-pathetically laughable compared with PS3+X360
etc
etc
etc

This also applies for handhelds too.

If the specs were the only thing which mattered so Switch never had been sold more than 30m then. It's just games which counts for Nintendo's consoles.
Art style > "ultra" realistic graphics flavor of the day, forever!

Keman

FishyS

Keman wrote:

I'm bothy so impressed and confused by that some people (here and out there) still flexes their novice armchair expertise (99.9% of them has zero experience with actual programming) day after day for years now. Why is the specs a such HUGE deal for many people?

I suspect a lot more of us who hang out here are in STEM fields than you think. Though I doubt many actually work in video games. So it is just enough partially relevant professional expertise to be dangerous. 😝

I very much agree Art style > ultra realistic graphics and I look forward to what Nintendo is able to do art wise in games like Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing with a more powerful console. And yeah, Nintendo isn't trying to be the most powerful console even with the presumed Switch 2, it's just trying to be able to make modern games in Nintendo's own unique very polished style while also allowing ports of other popular games. The exact specs definitely don't really matter unless you're interested in that sort of thing.

As for being tired of hearing about Switch pro/2 rumours, you will likely finally get to hear the end of it later this year. 😀 At least for a year or two until people start speculating about Switch 3. 😆

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skywake

@Keman
One of my earliest interactions with this forum back in the day, and the main reason I drifted from the front page, was so I could join in on speculation about "Wii HD" and "DS 2". So threads such as this are just where I tend to live on this forum. And with rare exceptions it's generally a fun exercise.... the last few pages clearly being one of those exceptions and a clear example of why I think a lot of people choose not to engage

But yeah, it is about the games ultimately. And in particular, and especially for me, it's just a general excitement about what this new hardware will open up. Both in terms of what Nintendo will be able to do with [insert agreeable level of power here] but also what [insert agreeable level of power here] will mean for gaming on a portable device

Steam Deck and those portable gaming PCs are pretty cool for portable as they are. Imagine how much more we will be able to get when we have developers building and optimising for a very specific piece of hardware! The specs themselves are not very interesting. It's what they'll open up that's interesting. And you can't have one without the other

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Hyrule_Rainclouds

I think the technical discussions are interesting, but I feel this thread was meant to be fun, lighthearted discussion, not something worth getting all worked up about. Anyway, that's how I feel.

I'm more curious to see what extra features the "Switch 2" has. I started console gaming in 1980 with the Atari 2600. It's been fun experiencing the evolution of video game consoles and video games over the years, and it will be cool to see what Nintendo comes up with for the "Switch 2" as well. I look forward to reading more analysis about the specs once it's actually announced and we hear what those specs are. But I'm more curious to see what extra features there are and of course what games it gets. And I agree with @skywake, it will be fun to see what developers come up with developing for this very specific set of hardware. Some of my favorite games were developed a certain way for the system/console they were on, like The World Ends With You battle system using the dual screens on Nintendo DS or The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the motion controls on Wii. And I agree with what @Keman and @FishyS said, a good art style is more important to me than ultra-realistic graphics. I mean, I still play old 8-bit and 16-bit games, etc., doesn't matter to me so much what a game looks like as long as it's fun!

I've heard rumors "Switch 2" might come with a camera, maybe for AR? I really liked the AR cards for 3DS. I hope it comes with a microphone, maybe one in the controllers/joy-cons and one in the system itself? I'm guessing it will still have a touchscreen, but does anyone think it will have a stylus? Like I said above, I really loved Streetpass and wish it would come back somehow. What games do you think they'll show off during the reveal? Maybe some third-party games? One thing I really wish is that they'd move the charge port to the top or at least add one at the top. I almost always play in handheld mode with the Switch and like keeping it plugged in, but it's hard to do with the power cord plugged into the bottom. Oh well.

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skywake

@Hyrule_Rainclouds
I remember when the "Switch Pro" speculation was at it's peak posting on the cesspool that is Reddit that I hoped they'd bring back the camera. I think it makes a lot of sense given the low cost of cameras and the potential to open up gameplay opportunities. But I was comprehensively burried for that opinion. I'm not sure we'll get it but I'm well and truly down for it if it does happen

But I'm also pretty happy if we get "just" a portable console where once it lands we see less reviews where "good performance" doesn't always have an asterisk next to it.....

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FishyS

@Hyrule_Rainclouds Some Switch games already work with a stylus (for example Mario Maker 2) — personally I got one with the Switch travel case I bought; they just cost a couple bucks as a cheap accessory. However, I don't think they will default attach a stylus because it doesn't make a ton of sense when half the players are playing docked and they have therefore de-emphasized touch screen. At best a stylus might come as an unattached accessory in the box unless they actually have an accessory with a second screen. Switch has so many ways to play right now including stylus which aren't actually used in very many games.

Kind of agree the power cord can be in an annoying place, but they didn't move it for lite and depending on how you hold it it can be a bit annoying anywhere.

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FishyS

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_Lime

I hope Nintendo doesn’t go down the ‘ultra realistic graphics’ route, I doubt they will but I personally think they should prioritise performance over graphics. For example, totk looked fine but the slow loading times and 30
FPS were holding it back slightly.
I have no knowledge about this stuff and I am not sure if performance and graphics come hand in hand but if I was in charge of Nintendo that’s what I would do.

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