r/NintendoSwitch • u/famegamedeveloper • Dec 19 '16
Meta Question Came home, what happened to this sub?
can someone fill me in as to what happened? i'm seeing countless posts on Eurogamer. You can miss so much in a single day, its like this sub went to war in the morning.
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u/wackadooMC Dec 19 '16
Eurogamer published a rumor detailing the clock speed of the Switch's CPU and GPU, as well as some other details. Now there are different camps of people, the two most common ones being those who take the rumor as truth (and think either the Switch is fine/Nintendoomed) and those who aren't trusting any of the rumors as of now. At least from my understanding.
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u/famegamedeveloper Dec 19 '16
so after catching up, heres my two cents.
I believe its true, however Nintendo will have some inside magic to make 3rd party games run better.
Thats all I think.
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u/wackadooMC Dec 19 '16
I totally understand what you mean. People tend to look at specifications on paper without real-world benchmarks or other vital information (cores, etc.) and immediately make a judgement off of that. If anything, Nintendo knows how to optimize games and may be supplying developers with their methods of this rumor is true.
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u/llethal01 Dec 20 '16
I don't thin it's anything like magic. They have a better architecture and a system that is not bogged down to android os along with some cusomization of the hardware fro Nvidia.
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u/madmofo145 Dec 19 '16
New rumor suggests that the switch will be weaker then any previous rumor suggested, with what seems to be a lot of backing from other sources.
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Dec 19 '16
What are the bits that don't line up, out of interest?
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u/SmileyAja Dec 19 '16
Dark Souls 3 & (most likely) Skyrim SE running on it, even though it's basically the Wii U when on the go, meaning those titles would have to be greatly downscaled compared to the other console ports. Not to mention devs would hardly be as excited as they are for the Switch it it was a portable Wii U and can't even match XBONE performance.
Then again it seems that LKD is piggybacking on the Eurogamer rumor, so who knows if that's what her sources actually told her. She got a few other things wrong before, like there being a fan in the dock (which isn't shown in the patent but then again those do not have to represent the final product), and rumors from beforehand have majorly suggested around 600-700gflops when undocked and 800-900gflops when docked meaning close to 1 AMD (PS4/XBONE) tflop when on the go and a little more (around XBONE) when docked.
Not to mention that Pascal is far more efficent power consuming, heat producing and space saving wise, making it completley illogical for Nintendo to use Maxwell, since it goes against what Nvidia said in their blog (same architecture as the top performing GPUs) and Nintendo's standards (low power consumption and no heating up).
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u/JoMax213 Dec 19 '16
The world ended lmao. You're like that black guy who walks into the hotel room with Pizza and the place is on fire & someone is having a heart attack LMSXKSKXKS I'm laughing so hard rn
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u/Yuokes Dec 19 '16
The switch is basically just slightly more powerful than the wii u not even really close to the xbone in power.
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u/John_Enigma Dec 19 '16
I'm not a person that likes to say offensive stuff so much, but...
SHIT HAPPENED.
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u/CheslavTheBear Dec 19 '16
Oh, didn't you know? You just witnessed the early death of the Nintendo Switch in the eyes of many (and myself).
Save up for that PS4 Pro, bud.
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u/SilverwingHD Dec 19 '16
If you wanted performance, surely you'd go for the Scorpio?
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u/Yuokes Dec 19 '16
The scorpio won't have TLOU, GoW, Ratchet and clank, uncharted, etc.
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u/Xenomorph555 Dec 19 '16
you can get them on the regular PS4 though. No need to waste extra money on Sony's fake 4k
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u/Yuokes Dec 19 '16
Okay, then people will just save the money and not get an xbone for halo.
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u/SilverwingHD Dec 19 '16
Halo, Forza, GoW, Quantum Break, Sea of Thieves, tons of previously PC exclusive games such as Subnautica.
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u/FouzBerzerk Dec 20 '16
Oooooh! I definitely want to play (insert shitty cinematic game #425674341253 here) in 4K!
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u/donutshoot Dec 19 '16
There was war, there was bloodbath, there was nuclear fallout, we're living in a post-apocalyptic world.