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Re: Feature: Where Does Nintendo Switch Fit In The PS5 And Xbox Project Scarlett Next-Gen War?

Dysnomia

@PcTV I don’t know if the next gen from MS and Sony are the smallest jump in power ever, but they are certainly going to suffer from diminished returns. 4K and ray traced lighting are two of the biggest things coming our way (the latter for pc, don’t even know if next gen consoles support it), but graphics improvements are noticeably less and less, and by fewer people. every generation.

Re: Random: The Switch Won't Let You Download More Than 64 Games In One Go, Apparently

Dysnomia

@Varelius uh, yeah I know what bitness means. I don’t really understand your comment though. X6-64 is just one 64 bit architecture. The Switch uses Arm though. The 64 bit Arm processors don’t only allow for 64bits of data, but the instruction set is different as well. Just like 64 bit x86 processors also doubled the general purpose registers. Full disclosure - I worked at AMD during the bring up and years after they shipped the first AMD64 (btw, officially that is the name, not x86-64 as a intel will have you believe.)

But none of that has anything with my reply asking why 64 downloads. I just stated 64 isn’t an uncommon number in the tech industry.