@Lugazz No. Nononono. That's not at all how it works.
An HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. It either supports the standard or it doesn't. Plenty of cables made before the 2.0 standard still work with 2.0 signals just because they happen to be good enough to carry the signal. All making a HDMI 1.4 cable means is making a worse cable. You don't have to "find" them. They are automatically available and cheaper to acquire.
The idea that HDMI 2.0 controllers are cheaper to acquire seems bogus to me as well. If anything, 1.4 should be cheaper, even MUCH cheaper, depending on the circumstances. People still included micro usb ports on phones and gadgets long, long after usb C became the de facto standard because it saved PENNIES, which add up over the course of thousands or millions of units. In fact, they still sell the Razer Viper Ultimate, an expensive gaming mouse, with a micro usb port (which is completely unacceptable, by the way), even though its an outdated, dumb port that nobody wants. Add this on to the fact that multiple 3rd party docks today still only support up to 4k 30hz (HDMI 1.4), and this idea seems increasingly unlikely.
If anything, this is overwhelmingly likely to be future proofing. But how far in the future? No one can really say. Whenever Nintendo feels like they can get a sizable fresh baked supply of new silicon and stick it in a handheld, I guess. My guess is any new switch would just be an OLED model with new silicon stuck in it, whenever that would happen.
Persona 5 AND Persona 3 are the emergency asks. They've both been platform locked for far too long, and Persona 3 needs a definitive version instead of forcing people to choose between inferior gameplay/content (P3FES) and inferior presentation (P3P).
Actually, Mega Turrican is not a port; its the original. Turican 3 is a port of Mega Turrican. Yeah, not sure why they did it that way either, but it is a much better version of the game either way.
The make-or-break aspect of the collection is how Turrican 1 and 2 perform. Did they fix the speed issues of the game? If this is just emulated versions of the game running at 50fps on a 60hz screen with stuttering, or simply sped up to 60fps, causing them to run faster than they're supposed to, then this collection is absolutely worthless. What these games need is proper versions remade or reprogrammed to run at the correct speed at 60hz, otherwise you are just getting inferior versions compared to the Amiga/CDTV originals, and you might as well play them on an FS-UAE or some other UAE variant. I was hoping they actually did it properly, but it sounds like they went for one of the two lazy options, especially if they couldn't even get Mega Turrican working without constant crashes.
I would at least like to know which of the two lazy options is the case, if so.
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Re: Teardown Suggests The Switch OLED Dock Is 4K 60fps-Ready And 'Future Proof'
@Lugazz No. Nononono. That's not at all how it works.
An HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. It either supports the standard or it doesn't. Plenty of cables made before the 2.0 standard still work with 2.0 signals just because they happen to be good enough to carry the signal. All making a HDMI 1.4 cable means is making a worse cable. You don't have to "find" them. They are automatically available and cheaper to acquire.
The idea that HDMI 2.0 controllers are cheaper to acquire seems bogus to me as well. If anything, 1.4 should be cheaper, even MUCH cheaper, depending on the circumstances. People still included micro usb ports on phones and gadgets long, long after usb C became the de facto standard because it saved PENNIES, which add up over the course of thousands or millions of units. In fact, they still sell the Razer Viper Ultimate, an expensive gaming mouse, with a micro usb port (which is completely unacceptable, by the way), even though its an outdated, dumb port that nobody wants. Add this on to the fact that multiple 3rd party docks today still only support up to 4k 30hz (HDMI 1.4), and this idea seems increasingly unlikely.
If anything, this is overwhelmingly likely to be future proofing. But how far in the future? No one can really say. Whenever Nintendo feels like they can get a sizable fresh baked supply of new silicon and stick it in a handheld, I guess. My guess is any new switch would just be an OLED model with new silicon stuck in it, whenever that would happen.
Re: Atlus Wants To Know What Games You Want Ported To Switch
Persona 5 AND Persona 3 are the emergency asks. They've both been platform locked for far too long, and Persona 3 needs a definitive version instead of forcing people to choose between inferior gameplay/content (P3FES) and inferior presentation (P3P).
Re: Review: Turrican Flashback - An Annoyingly Incomplete Collection That's Still Worth A Look
Actually, Mega Turrican is not a port; its the original. Turican 3 is a port of Mega Turrican. Yeah, not sure why they did it that way either, but it is a much better version of the game either way.
The make-or-break aspect of the collection is how Turrican 1 and 2 perform. Did they fix the speed issues of the game? If this is just emulated versions of the game running at 50fps on a 60hz screen with stuttering, or simply sped up to 60fps, causing them to run faster than they're supposed to, then this collection is absolutely worthless. What these games need is proper versions remade or reprogrammed to run at the correct speed at 60hz, otherwise you are just getting inferior versions compared to the Amiga/CDTV originals, and you might as well play them on an FS-UAE or some other UAE variant. I was hoping they actually did it properly, but it sounds like they went for one of the two lazy options, especially if they couldn't even get Mega Turrican working without constant crashes.
I would at least like to know which of the two lazy options is the case, if so.