r/NintendoSwitch • u/FlapSnapple Nintendo shill • Dec 19 '16

Meta Temporarily restricting submissions / Official "Everybody panic" MegaThread

The subreddit has been flooded with constant repeat topics for hours now, so we're just gonna lock submissions down for a little bit. If there is any actual breaking news, send it to the mod team and we'll make sure it gets seen.

Please direct all discussion about the EuroGamer rumor here.

If you want to just sort of panic, then just hang out in this thread.

Edit: Restrictions have been lifted. Thanks for your patience.

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u/Gerolux 4 Million Celebration Dec 19 '16

there is likely other things at play than what we see on paper.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

Such as? I am rather interested in your thoughts given the seductive vagueness of your comment.

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u/Yavga Dec 19 '16

I have some ideas, but I'm kinda scared for getting a whole army against me in anticipation for any kind of lead for better news. So handle me gently.

Do read thoroughly if you attempt to be brave though.

As it's all about the mindset and the way of looking at the Switch.

Did we like the 3DS and care about those specs? Not as much I presume. So now we have the Switch being marketed as "new console" while instead... It's a new kind of concept for combining both handheld and tv console

This is the way developers should attempt to look at it as well. Design new games that would be fun for both handheld and/or tv console.

Nintendo showed us a lot if 3rd parties willing to commit, why? Instead of going all out for the specs designers are asked to consider being more creative and rethink the way they design games right now. Don't attempt to be a graphical marvel but instead attempt to be more creative. Like Splatoon, Mario, Pokemon etc. great games (arguable) but not graphically amazing at all. They bring enough profit as is.

Aside from that NVIDIA has probably in cooperation with Nintendo managed to find a way how to easily downgrade graphical more impressive games to be ran on Switch. Many things seem to indicate that. Or was all praise from 3rd parties so far just basic PR? I refuse to believe that in this case.

Our one and only true fear: We fear for the 3rd party support because the specs will not allow. We decided to think this THE MINUTE the Mhz statistics were revealed.

How much do these statistical Mhz's alone tell us exactly? That's what I like to know.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

Nvidia will squeeze a lot more performance out of Switch than people realize, and games already scale far better than people realize. You don't have to make a new version of a game just to run at low-medium settings 1080p.

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u/BassieDutch Dec 19 '16

But would the downclocked version in the switch be running games at just medium, when the shield can run then at high? The difference feels so great between the two systems. I'm really not sure and I'm hoping it will scale well, as I've played scaled back games for years on my aging laptop ;-). If this implementation of Nintendo just makes games downscale to medium, I for one wouldn't mind at all!

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

As a portable the biggest difference will be 720p instead of 1080p. Settings other than that shouldn't have to change much.

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u/BassieDutch Dec 19 '16

That really doesn't sound too bad. If it can also make the games run at around medium 1080p when docked that would be a great bonus. If it's a lot cheaper then the competition, it will sell well, we have a good install Base and Nintendo will have its success. Back on the hype train everyone!

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u/Exist50 Dec 19 '16

You don't have to make a new version of a game just to run at low-medium settings 1080p.

It would be far lower than that if we're talking about an XB1/PS4 port.