NoTinderLife

The launch of Switch Pro next year definitely influenced this decision.

I just want to see the gameplay, not interested in the box.

@Nomad @Scarftail

BotW will launched with a Switch pro that can run the game in Nvidia upscaled 4K. It will be out next year, there's evidence already:

https://fccid.io/BKEHAT002/Letter/02-FCC-Class-II-Permissive-Change-Letter-4869805

"This is helped by the fact that the game runs at a silky smooth 60 frames per second most of the time."

This game looks like a PS1 game, it would be hopeless if it can't run at 60 fps.

They delayed BotW 2 for the New Switch, just like what they did with Wii U. I bet they already finished the game, they are just holding on to it for their new system. In the meantime, play a Dynasty Warrior game while you wait and pretend it's BotW2.

Nintendo likes using Zelda as a transitioning game for their consoles. Twilight Princess for GC and Wii, BotW for Wii U and Switch and now Botw2 as well. It's like killing 2 birds with one stone - selling the same game on 2 consoles.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic was a remastered edition by Chris Sawyer in 2017, that is currently the best version of RCT game - which should be the one ported to Switch, not this junk 3d wannabe crap.

Sega's Virtua Tennis 4 came out in 2011, it looks better than this game in every way: the character models, lighting, animations, etc.

It's bizarre that a recent tennis game can't improved on a game that came out almost a decade ago.

I don't like it when Nintendo is rich, they get lazy and not in a hurry to make good games. When Nintendo was losing money, they innovate and gave all their best effort (BotW).

Let's make Nintendo poor again.

The Gunk becomes The Junk when it reaches Xbox.

Oh no! Nintendo is going to delay BotW 2 for The New Switch now. I bet they will make the game run 60fps@1080 for the New Switch and 30fps for the old one.

Nvidia's new GPU uses AI to upscale games to 4K, but internally they are running at a lower resolution. Some of you guys should keep up with new tech - 4K is possible on Switch. The upscaling looks as good as native 4K because of Deep Learning tech. Nvidia is at the forefront of AI hardware, Nintendo made the right choice with Nvidia.

LABO is just like IKEA, you need to assemble everything yourself.

Maybe IKEA should collaborate with Nintendo: you buy an IKEA furniture, it comes with an Amiibo tag that can activate the actual furniture in the Animal Crossing game.

BotW2 is the only weapon Nintendo has against Sony this Xmas shopping season. Everyone will be talking about PS5 a few months from now. Without BotW2, no one will remember Switch anymore.

Why port for PC? You can play Killer7 using Dolphin.

They should stick to 2D games, this game looks like all the run of the mill indie games out there.

The Maid? I think it was meant to be a Joan of Arc game, but the boobs made them changed the character to avoid conflict with the church.

I am waiting for Playdate.

All 3 games combined is less than 1GB - you can easily put them in a single cartridge.

Swery never learnt from his mistakes. He made D4 exclusive to Xbox and it flopped because no one plays that type of game on Xbox. Now he made DP2 exclusive to Switch but it runs like poop.

He should have made all his games for PS4 and PC, that's the ideal platform for his games.

Join the sheep and struggle your way to the top. That's the lesson of this game.

@contractcooker @Foxorroxors Do more research, it's not the speed of the SSD - Sony even allows you to install your own SSD into the PS5.

The zero-loading has to do with the chip that loads data from SSD into graphics card memory, even bypassing the CPU. The fast loading is not just about having zero wait time when you start a game. It dynamically load data into the graphics card, that means devs can create games that couldn't be done before due to memory constraint.

@BlueOcean "The SSD of Series X is also extremely fast and the extra speed of PS5 while real, it is overblown."

Do you know that PS5's SSD speed is over twice the speed of XBOX? And it's only possible not because of the drive - but Sony's proprietary chip that controls the I/O operations, it loads data directly into graphics memory.

Games that are developed for PS5 cannot be ported to XBOX or even PC, until Intel or AMD made a new PCI controller that can do that - but seems unlikely as it needs deep integration with graphics card. To me, this makes PS5 a real console - having feature that is unique to the system. That's the reason people bought a console years ago, unlike recent consoles that are reusing PC tech or mobile tech like Switch.

@FargusPelagius You should just buy a PC. LOL. Ratchet & Clank is just an example. Have you seen Unreal engine 5 demo? They only show it running on PS5 because of the zero-loading system.

@MarioBrickLayer BotW is GotY material, it's epic - Odyssey is not even in the same league. People got tricked into buying it because of the hype-up review.

Nobody is going to buy XBOX, the zero-loading system of PS5 already made it obsolete. MS thought that if they made XBOX's processor a little bit faster then they will win over PS5, but they didn't anticipated Sony's secretly developing a chip that can load data directly from SSD to graphics memory and bypassing the CPU.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the 'showoff' game that Sony will use as a launch title to demonstrate the insane loading system of PS5. The game constantly shift between worlds, not even the fastest PC can run a game like this.

Zelda BotW 2 will be out at the end of the year to combat Sony's PS5. It's the only thing Nintendo has that can push more sales for Switch during the shopping season.

Nintendo did the same thing 3 years ago with BotW vs Horizon Zero Dawn. Sony's more realistic graphics vs Nintendo's gameplay - BotW won the game of the year and Horizon disappeared (until recently it was resurrected for the PC).

Meh. If Doom runs, Crysis ought to.

People still buy GTA V in UK? The game was free last month, and will be free for PS5.

I am currently playing this game on my Vita. It was only released in the Japan, but someone ripped the English cutscenes and voices from the PS4 game and patched them into the Japanese Vita version. The text was also converted to English. It's a crazy mammoth task that only the quarantined can accomplished.

Is it OK for Nintendo to sell faulty Joycons that drifts? That is illegal, the Joycons were made to last a year - when warranty expired, it drifts like crazy. I bet you Nintendo makes more money selling Joycons than games.

That's what you should focus on Nintendo, improve the joycons, not users modding their console.

Save your money for the end of the year when Zelda BotW 2 releases. There's no doubt in my mind that Nintendo will launch this game after Sony starts selling PS5. While PS5 is a new gen console, there aren't any good launch titles. Zelda will steal the limelight from PS5, just like what it did to Horizon Zero Dawn 3 years ago.

No one wants to play Batman games after Coronavirus - Batman is contagious.

Nintendo is just pissed that their new revisioned Switch and Switch Lite are being hacked, that's why they took action.

Konami assumed that people will get interested in these sports because of the Tokyo Olympics. Since the Olympics was cancelled they had to cancel the game too!

There's a lot of Sony exclusives like Horizon Zero Dawn, Tetris Effects, Nex Machina, etc on PC - it's a neutral platform, Sony don't care about it. But it will never be on a rival platform. Sony is not Microsoft, they are doing well and have no need to sell their games on Switch.

The result of too much time during quarantine.

There's an explosion of progress in homebrew apps during the past 2 months - the result of people staying home. There's so much progress in Yuzu and Cemu (Switch and Wii U emulator), they already outperformed Nintendo hardware - if you have a fast PC.

Rated T for tits.

This technology is already outdated. They are trying to attempt what Apple's LIDAR is doing. By the end of the year all new phones will have Lidar built-in.

Niantic has wasted the last 2 years doing all these occlusion technique research, with Lidar all apps will have real depth sensing capability.

This is the Switch Olympics at home.

Btw, Tokyo Olympics is cancelled but there is a Mario and Sonic Olympic 2020 video game. They should make a new one next year.

Forget about GTA V on Switch. Rockstar gave the game away for free earlier this month. Everyone has a copy by now.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61576/GTAV-Premium-Edition-Available-Free-on-the-Epic-Games-Store-Until-May-

Where's the Nintendo Direct for Evil Games (Shooter)?

Nintendo better release more games now or NintendoLife has to keep writing Animal Crossing articles.

Who needs games when you can install the new stability patch? It's more fun to play with.

Switch was on fire in 2019 with endless releases of good games. This year however is full of garbage. At the end of the year people's attention will be on PS5, Nintendo better come up with something good.

When Bayonetta 3 is 99% completed, Platinum will put it on Kickstarter to get it started. In a month or so, they will be motivated to finish that 1% of work.

"...I get the impression it’s been ready to go for a while."

It's been ready since 2015

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/09/pikmin_4_is_very_close_to_completion_though_its_platform_is_unclear

Epic already said UE5 is supported on mobile devices, of course Switch can run it. It's stupid to assume that just because it's supported - your system will produce graphics like what they showed in the presentation.

Devs will continue to use UE5 to make simple mobile games and port them to Switch while those that uses dynamic global illumination only works with PS5/XBSX and PC. If they port those games to Switch the lighting will be pre-rendered and baked in, they won't be dynamic and required a lot of work.

Epic used PS5 to sell Unreal Engine 5 because of it's ultra fast loading system. Unreal and Unity are notoriously famed for their long loading time, PS5 had solved their problem.

I still think a one size fits all solution for game development is not ideal. Financially it helps, by reducing development time but in the long run your game is yet another mass produced product that's unoptimized and requiring more time to fix than to build. A tailored product customized for a specific platform yielded better results, but game devs are too greedy these days and want their games on all platforms and too lazy to port them individually.

Tell Nintendo not to worry, at the year's end people will be buying PS5.

@electrolite77 @Emperor-Palpsy @Nourldean @westman98 You guys know that I am comparing Switch to the SNES and Wii right? No one is talking about Sony or MS consoles, the article is about Nintendo consoles.

My point is: all SNES games are 100% original, Wii has 21% original games and Switch currently has 2.5% original games.

@nhSnork @Edu23XWiiU Unlike Wii, DS or PS2, Switch hack does not required modchip or R4 carts. It just required a paperclip or a piece of tinfoil, anyone can do it in a few minutes.

@iWinRar There's also a lot of garbageware in the Switch eshop. There are around 1200 Wii games, on Switch there's over 2000. I'd say at least 1000 of them are garbage.

It's actually worse than Wii because those garbage from Wii were also ported to Switch plus garbage from other consoles and mobile phone.

@mazzel I am comparing Switch to SNES and Wii, learn to read.