Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Giancarlothomaz Firstly to get it to work on the Steam Deck, the person who uploaded the video says they made a lot of changes to files. Also that seems to run pretty poorly judging by the video. Thought that could be simply badly recorded and encoded. But I didn’t see anything about ray tracing in there. I don’t even know if the Steam Deck can do ray tracing

'Comparable' is the perfect word to use in a video game leak/rumour though - it can be interpreted pretty darn widely.

Plus, it just says the visuals are comparable, doesn't mean the performance is.

But I don't know enough about ray tracing at the time of writing to say much about the plausibility of that bit.

Universo Nintendo claim Switch sucessor could have 12GB RAM, Ray-Tracing suport e DSLL 3.1

https://mynintendonews.com/2023/09/07/universo-nintendo-claim...

Compartable with the naked eye is all anyone should really be bothered about. I for one don't give a monkeys about specs.

I feel like we've been on a continuous loop with "switch 2" rumors since 2019. I guess it's fun to speculate, but it's gotta get tiresome I'd imagine. No disrespect meant to anyone.

@NintendoByNature 2019 rumours was Switch Pro which ended up being OLED instead. I feel like recently is the first truly serious Switch 2 rumours.

@NintendoByNature the 2019 rumors was for Switch Pro, this time is Switch sucessor

I guess. Just feels like the same spec talk for 4 years. Not trying to be a downer, but it'll happen when it happens. I have about 5-6 switch games I'm buying for the next 6-9 months that are yet to come out. So im good for a while.

How is the switch port version of Persona 4 by the way? I heard there's a game booster feature where you can turn on or off an EXP increase thing after doing battles with the random enemies?

@NintendoByNature I think that's the best way to look at it. All these Switch 2 rumours are just boring especially with there being such a strong lineup for the current Switch in the next few months.

@Grumblevolcano exactly. Still have a lot of good stuff coming down the road to keep us busy.

@NintendoByNature
For sure, and I have lots of Switch games lined up just like you do, but I still find the rumors fun to follow.

Some people like gossip, some don't. And I'm an unabashed gossip lover lol

@BobTheBunkerGuy @rallydefault I get it. And I'm certainly not knocking anyone who enjoys it. I just feel like I've been reading the same comments for years now lol.

One thing I DO love though; is nintendo direct gossip. That gets me hyped.

@NintendoByNature
Yea, I did tune out a bit with the Pro rumors after awhile (I do still think it'll be fascinating to get a behind-the-scenes accurate take on what exactly happened with all that one day).

But now things are getting a bit different because we are seriously close to the successor of the Switch, so for me it's almost like watching College Game Day and knowing the big game of the weekend is finally just a couple hours away, and these preliminary moments are very exciting!

@BobTheBunkerGuy @rallydefault totally understand. We'll see what nintendo has for us in the next year or so.

@FragRed If these people were given a presentation of a demo, the "comparable" comment would make sense in the context of "yeah that's how I remember it" and not actually comparing it side by side.

If I had to guess, it's probably something that's a little bit better than PS4 tech that with DLSS (probably 2.0 rather than 3.5) makes a pared down version of that demo look semi-comparable to PS5/XSX (again, to the naked eye/memory based rather than compared side by side). That's something I could believe. It's obviously not going to have PS5 level performance.

The DLSS version number bit is interesting. We're all working under the (fair) assumption that this SoC is the T239 which is based on Ampere which is the same micro-architecture as NVidia's 3000 series GPUs. Which don't support DLSS 3.0 because they lacked the more efficient hardware acceleration for frame motion. But..... the T239 is custom silicon specifically for a portable games console that wants to be as efficient as possible. So who knows

But generally yes, the entire rumour here assuming it's accurate (and I believe it is) is based around some developers being given a presentation about what the new hardware is. A bit of an outline of what it's capable of in the hopes of selling some dev-kits. And some kind of demo that showed TotK running in a higher resolution mode and the Matrix demo "looking like a PS5 game". We're not talking about someone going frame-by-frame through a video. It would've been from memory and we're taking some random's word for it. Also we don't know whether the demo was on a portable screen or blown up or how long they showed the demo etc, etc

I think this whole thing stacks up, especially given we've had several fairly reputable places some out and say similar things. How it actually pans out when we actually have the product in our hands? Remains to be seen. But I do think a lot of people are going to be taken aback by how far what's possible on a device like the Switch has moved over the last 5 years or so. I'm not at all surprised that some people are highly sceptical, it's difficult to wrap your head around exponential growth

Sorry to butt in here but I just wanted to ask a quick question in regards to buying eShop gift cards: can you redeem more than one per day? I'm currently about to grab two €15 ones for a bit of last-minute spending during this September sale and I'm just wondering if it's possible to activate both of them one after the other (because if I can't then my master plan has essentially fallen to pieces XD)

@Fizza yeah that’s fine. You can redeem the cards one after another with no problem.

@jump Cheers, on my way to grab 13 Sentinels and a bunch of others in a bit! (hopefully I'll be able to get all of them before this sale ends in ~3 hours XD)