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onionberry said:
Conina said:

They wouldn't have to make a cartridge of that debug version. I'm sure the Switch will also run digital versions from flash memory.

digital or not, I'm pretty sure the game is not converted and ported just yet, usually they do that when the game is done like a month before release. people need to do some research if this is their hobby.

This is 100% nonsense. Do you mean the game isn't signed to run on a retail console yet?If so, sure. Do you mean that Nintendo is using a 100% legimate retail console in this video? Because that is almost assuredly not the case. In fact I would not be surprised at all if all of the video shown in the ad is a playback of a pre-recorded video.

Nintendo could feasibily have made development/test kits by now that look almost identical to retail kits, and it would be very easy for Nintendo to make one look identical to one for the purposes of this ad. If this is a test kit in this ad, then it absolutely could run an unsigned version of this game.



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You guys remember that footage of Link vs. a giant spider in the WiiU reveal. That game never happened, most games they showed never happened. Also, Legged Freaks became ZombiU and so on and on an on...



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potato_hamster said:
onionberry said:

digital or not, I'm pretty sure the game is not converted and ported just yet, usually they do that when the game is done like a month before release. people need to do some research if this is their hobby.

This is 100% nonsense. Do you mean the game isn't signed to run on a retail console yet?If so, sure. Do you mean that Nintendo is using a 100% legimate retail console in this video? Because that is almost assuredly not the case. In fact I would not be surprised at all if all of the video shown in the ad is a playback of a pre-recorded video.

Nintendo could feasibily have made development/test kits by now that look almost identical to retail kits, and it would be very easy for Nintendo to make one look identical to one for the purposes of this ad. If this is a test kit in this ad, then it absolutely could run an unsigned version of this game.

The "consoles" used in the reveal trailer were dummy units, and the footage was pre-recorded and added in post production.



potato_hamster said:
onionberry said:

cause it's a debug version, and they are not going to put a game in development inside a cartridge just for 10 seconds of advertisement. was probably the wii u version too.

That's not how it works. Running a game in debug mode on a dev kit vs running it in retail mode is literally a matter of a setting on the dev kit/deployment tool. Also, running a game in debug mode typically displays all kinds of debug information on the screen so you can see things like frame rate, and memory allocations in real time as the game does its thing in real time. We don't see that here. It normally doesn't run the game slower unless you specifically set it to run slower for debugging purposes. That's the main reason why dev kits are more powerful than retail kits - so the debug tools can be run on top of the game itself running at normal speed, using all of the resources it would be using as if it was running on retail hardware . There is no reason for this game to be running at 12 fps just because it's a pre-release build of the game.

This game is already in beta. It's at the polishing/finishing touches point. This game should be running at at 24-26 frames per second at minimum at this stage in development. Not 12 fps.


It's true what you say, but even the e3 footage was running on debug consoles, confirmed by digital foundry. a debug console functions like a normal console to test the state of the game. and the game was not running at 12fps, I said that because looks slower. Basically what I'm saying is, the footage is a game in development that was not running on the final product and was edited for the switch trailer.



AZWification said:

What the hell... Does that mean that Mario footage is not real?

It is real, not only looks totaly real, there are strong rumours that suggest this trailer was released later than expected because Miyamoto didn't wanted to show new mario footage until it looked and worked flawless on the trailer.



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potato_hamster said:
onionberry said:

digital or not, I'm pretty sure the game is not converted and ported just yet, usually they do that when the game is done like a month before release. people need to do some research if this is their hobby.

This is 100% nonsense. Do you mean the game isn't signed to run on a retail console yet?If so, sure. Do you mean that Nintendo is using a 100% legimate retail console in this video? Because that is almost assuredly not the case. In fact I would not be surprised at all if all of the video shown in the ad is a playback of a pre-recorded video.

Nintendo could feasibily have made development/test kits by now that look almost identical to retail kits, and it would be very easy for Nintendo to make one look identical to one for the purposes of this ad. If this is a test kit in this ad, then it absolutely could run an unsigned version of this game.

god, the thing is not running anything, was a commercial with a simulated screen that's all.



simulating a screen for a commercial is very common place. filming a screen hard and never looks right. to that end nintendo are in the right.

however,.. they are also making promises via these images. to hear Bethesda come out and say skyrim is not confirmed for NS is really weird. if the final product doesn't get these games or look drastically different then displayed,... nintendo is going to have hell to pay to customer expectations.



AZWification said:

What the hell... Does that mean that Mario footage is not real?

It was just a figment of our imaginations



Goodnightmoon said:
AZWification said:

What the hell... Does that mean that Mario footage is not real?

It is real, not only looks totaly real, there are strong rumours that suggest this trailer was released later than expected because Miyamoto didn't wanted to show new mario footage until it looked and worked flawless on the trailer.

Oh yeah, I remember that rumor. Everything is alright as long as that Mario footage is real.



                
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sounds like the system could very well be delayed and not release in March, since they obviously haven't got any 10 second 'close to final' game footage to show in the trailer, and hesitate to reveal anything but a concept trailer



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