@Ralizah I'd at least hope that a new model switches (hah) to the newer, more efficient Tegra chips. Should allow for better battery life at the very least.
@Ralizah I could easily see a mid-gen bump that boosts undocked performance. It doesn't have to be much more powerful since it still only needs to render 720p. That said it's 100% dependent upon nVidia. They can't change the whole SoC out for an X2 without making too big a spread in specs, so I don't know if nVidia is planning a die shrink on the X1 at any point or if it's as small as it goes already.
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That's...literally exactly what I was saying, dude. But you ignored the part where I said I owned an UHD Blu-Ray player and use it quite frequently. You also didn't tell me if you owned a 4k TV.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
But you ignored the part where I said I owned an UHD Blu-Ray player and use it quite frequently. You also didn't tell me if you owned a 4k TV.
I ignored it for a reason, it's not relevant to the discussion. All I'm saying is that people having 4K sets doesn't mean much if they are not watching content that can take advantage of 4K. My original post was just to say that the transition from SD to HD was a big deal because we also moved from SD to HD in other aspects. That's less of a thing this time around.
During the HD transition people jumped from...
DVD -> BD (5x the disc capacity)
S.Vid & Composite -> HDMI (interlaced analogue -> digital)
MPEG -> H.264 (1/2 the file size)
DVD -> SD Netflix (a drop in quality for convenience, HD Netflix came later)
This time around we're talking about....
BD -> BDXL (2x the disc capacity)
HDMI 1.4 -> HDMI 2.0 (more pixels is the only major change)
H264 -> H265 (2/3rds the file size)
HD Netflix -> 4K Netflix (going from sub-BD to just over BD quality streaming)
Don't get me wrong, 4K matters. I just think it's a bit misguided to say that it matters as much as the jump to HD did. When we went from SD to HD it was a huge leap in just about every aspect. I for one was pretty hyped about the transition. I was buying BluRays back when they were still 5x the cost of a regular DVD.
But 4K? Well no, I don't have a 4K set yet. I've eyed them off in the shops and it's definitely an improvement. But it's more of an incremental improvement than the game changing jump from SD to HD was. And even when I get a UHD set and start building a collection of UHD BluRays I won't be buying movies again like I did with BluRay.
Well crud... Amazon Canada removed the part of the Prime benefit where you could get 20% off two weeks after release. Now it's JUST for preorders... and I never got around to it for Splatoon 2 (partly because I figured “oh hey, I have up until two weeks after launch!“).
Sometimes, Amazon Canada feels like an afterthought...
BBGC is way superior for getting those gaming discounts.
Ya, doesn't BestBuy Canada offer GCU like in the States? If so, that's the way to go.
That said, I used my student email to sign up for 6 months Prime free just 24 hrs before the Corrin P2 amiibo went live. Perfect timing. I'll take free Prime, maybe even the $49 half price offer for students, but 1 year for $100, when BestBuy does better for $15/yr ($30 for 2 yr membership), with no time restrictions (can get discount years after release) and 20% off amiibo, and all games (hate how Prime discount doesn't show for half the games listed), even season pass or controller bundles with games get the discount...
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
4k is super overrated. The vast majority buying into 4k won't buy a TV that is big enough to be able to gain any benefit. The average American household needs to buy a 75" TV or sit closer to gain a benefit. Or both.
But HDR is a visible improvement and this is what should be focused on.
@Therad Not entirely true. I don't sit ''close enough'' according to those graphs, but there's a clear visible difference between 1080p and 4K at that distance.
Just bought BOTW and the DLC. It was a sore one to cough up the cash for considering I'm 3/4 of the way through the Wii U version, which I'll now sadly never go back to. I've got a long trip ahead of me on Tuesday and will be staying in a hotel Wednesday night so I'll have plenty time to get stuck into the DLC and possibly restart my adventure all over again.
BOTW is now officially the most expensive game I've ever bought. £60 for the Wii U version digitally and now $80 for the Switch version. At least I've saved some money buying it from the NA Eshop this time. MK8D held the record for 2 weeks.
@Grumblevolcano Ah I didn't know that cheers. I'm a bit gutted I'll never get to see the route I took on my first play through. I'll never retrace the footsteps of that epic first adventure.
I'm OK with 4K being achieved as a side effect of home console and PC hardware evolution, but focusing on it to the exclusion of everything else seems silly. Native 4K is still demanding enough for most games that the next gen Sony and Microsoft consoles will likely divert the majority of their system resources to achieving this. And I couldn't find this less interesting if I tried.
4k is super overrated. The vast majority buying into 4k won't buy a TV that is big enough to be able to gain any benefit. The average American household needs to buy a 75" TV or sit closer to gain a benefit. Or both.
It's not quite as simple as that even if your cynicism was on the money. Because there are advantages in addition to the extra pixel density that are coming along for the ride. HDR you mentioned, definitely a big deal. There's also the higher bitrate of 4K content in general. There's the fact that 480p, 720p and 1080p scale perfectly into 4K while nothing really scales nicely into 1080p except 1080p. Lastly a game rendered at 4K is effectively doing 1080p with Super Sampling without putting that extra texture detail in the bin.
Whether or not it's a waste of time running native 4K content vs native 1080p content is kinda beside the point. There are other benefits to 4K that go beyond whether or not you can actually see the pixels at a comfortable viewing distance.
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@skywake I agree. I want a HDR full-hd stream from Netflix at the same bitrate as their current 4k stream. It would give a better picture than their 4k offering, it would basically be Blu-ray as a stream. When it comes to games, in many cases, it would be better to up frame rate or other areas of graphics. Especially when it comes to action oriented games. Frames doesn't translates to good screenshots though.
@Therad YouTube for example, just select a different resolution. I don't disagree with you though, HDR is way more noticeable, but I can see the difference between 1080p and 4K, despite the fact that I'm not sitting at the right viewing distance. All those charts are saying I should sit 3 to 4 feet away from my TV, to see the benefits of 4K, but the viewing distance is definitely more. 5 to 6 feet would be my guess.
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