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Re: Nvidia Employee Comment Confirms Chip Rumoured To Be Used In 'Switch Pro' Is Real

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@RasandeRose Doom Eternal went from 40gb to 17.5gb, and if those guys can’t get it under 16gb, don’t expect the majority of developers to. Many Ps4 games, and certainly many games yet to be released games are even bigger. Yes, technically they could compress even further, but at the cost of making the games look comparable at best to current switch games, only at better framerates and resolutions. If you thought the door on FF7 remake looked bad, get ready for the entire game to look that way if it comes out on a 16gb card…

Re: Nvidia Employee Comment Confirms Chip Rumoured To Be Used In 'Switch Pro' Is Real

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@Ejadaddy Asia culturally has more respect for its customers and their own reputation than the strict capitalism loving west. They'd be more likely to favor the customer in the case of deciding about splitting games. That said, you'd usually be talking about an 8gb vs 16gb card decision, as there's only like 5 games that use 32gb cards and you can bet that Nintendo offered to split the cost of most (if not all) of those cases because it's simply not a viable business cost otherwise. As is, we'd end up with a powerhouse portable that CAN display high res textures, but won't, because the media format cost doesn't support their sizes. Games would only look slightly better than their previous system then. So yeah, that's certainly something they need to figure out. It points toward either a dual format setup like DS or Wii, or worryingly: no backward compatibility at all...

(This is also why I keep telling people they need to milk the current Switch for as long as they can, because card costs need to drop first, and I'm not convinced they'll drop enough even in 10 years. And, that could also mean that we might see a "Pro" before we see a "2")

Re: Nvidia Employee Comment Confirms Chip Rumoured To Be Used In 'Switch Pro' Is Real

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@Ejadaddy carts are limited by what publishers are willing to spend on them. There’s a clear aversion to 32gb cards, so unless prices start dramatically changing (not happening anytime soon) we are stuck with 16gb cards at best, in which case all that performance isn’t going to matter a whole lot. If prices DO drop, we will see 32gb cards used, which isn’t going to cut it when ps4 games were pushing 100+gb. There’s a huge limitation there.

Re: Random: "I'm Able To Trust Sony More Than Nintendo" - Japan Reacts To The Closure Of The Wii U And 3DS eShops

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@Krambo42 The people who are saying things like "who cares" and "the foreseeable future is fine" are the people who are helping the digital future come faster. If you know this isn't a good thing, then coming here to tell us all that "who cares, I'll be fine for the foreseeable future" isn't helping, it's hurting. Nobody is freaking out. Some of us CAN foresee the future where things go bad, and we're raising the flag. We've already lived through it. Games are lost. People are voicing their opinions about the topic. Pushing back on digital is a perfectly reasonable response to the lack of game preservation, and you complaining that there was no nuance in my three word response is wasting all our time. The world isn't binary. Stop thinking like it is. As someone who isn't bothered by a negative outcome, you're spending an awful lot of time on the subject, negatively impacting the outcome.

Re: Random: "I'm Able To Trust Sony More Than Nintendo" - Japan Reacts To The Closure Of The Wii U And 3DS eShops

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@Krambo42 Then you're free to move on with your life. Some people care about preservation. When your console breaks, you may not be able to transfer licenses. The availability on ebay will be PHYSICAL, IF people are buying physical to help preservation in the first place, and will likely have you spending at least as much as you would have if you bought it physically to begin with. If it matters so little to you, then there's no reason for you to be in this thread in the first place.

Re: Random: "I'm Able To Trust Sony More Than Nintendo" - Japan Reacts To The Closure Of The Wii U And 3DS eShops

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@Krambo42 Because they're only available FOR NOW. Ability to purchase new games is only the start. Support will end, and transferring licenses will become harder, if not impossible. If your favorite indie dev only releases digital, by all means support them. When Diablo 2 comes out digital only, we have a problem. If there's an option, go out of your way to buy physical.

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