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SonytendoAmiibo on 20 March 2017
archer9234 said:
SonytendoAmiibo said:

 

Right, and here we are again. But if Nintendo wants to upgrade Switch's power for a game, they could potentially add more hardwear to a Switch cartridge. It might be bigger and stick out the top but it would work.

It would. But, there's no real reason for it. Pokemon Pinball had rumble, built into the card. Simply because the GB had no way to do that. It was feasable. Because there where no other means of doing it. And it wasn't cheaper to just build everything into the system. We could still be using VHS tapes, for HD content. We choose not to. There are better and easier ways to deal with it. Adding in the hardware, to make a game better. Just benefits that game only.

 

And when Nintendo comes out with a $80.00 Metroid Switch game that uses the Super Switch FX Chip that wont benefit Nintendo?

   

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SvennoJ on 20 March 2017

The interface is too slow for that to be useful. You could pack more ram on a card yet with sub 80 MB/s transfer speeds it's pointless. Perhaps it's fast enough for so called 'cloud computing enhancements' which we still have to see the benefits of. Not that you can put any meaningful amount of processing power in the card compared to what's already in the Switch anyway... It's simply too small.



derpysquirtle64 on 20 March 2017
SonytendoAmiibo said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

The reason it was done in the past was to make up for lacking hardware. 

 

Right, and here we are again. But if Nintendo wants to upgrade Switch's power for a game, they could potentially add more hardwear to a Switch cartridge. It might be bigger and stick out the top but it would work.

No, they can't if Switch doesn't already have some interface which supports such hardware upgrades. SNES cartridge slot for example was designed in such way that it could work as a bus for additional chips (like FX), N64 already had a slot for RAM upgrade, etc. If Switch doesn't have something like that than no way it can be upgraded. But to be honest, it has USB Type-C which can be used as a connector for some additional device



 

FunFan on 20 March 2017
Nettles said:
Don't think they could even fit a chip on an SD card.

There are chips in SD cards, already.



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archer9234 on 21 March 2017
SonytendoAmiibo said:
archer9234 said:

It would. But, there's no real reason for it. Pokemon Pinball had rumble, built into the card. Simply because the GB had no way to do that. It was feasable. Because there where no other means of doing it. And it wasn't cheaper to just build everything into the system. We could still be using VHS tapes, for HD content. We choose not to. There are better and easier ways to deal with it. Adding in the hardware, to make a game better. Just benefits that game only.

 

And when Nintendo comes out with a $80.00 Metroid Switch game that uses the Super Switch FX Chip that wont benefit Nintendo?

No, it won't. It would be used for that game. Cost, more to the consumer. Lowering sales. And could of just had the extra stuff, built into the system, from the start. If it was that important. It was pratical, in the past. Because that was the only option, of the time. And the games where on carts. Which where already making chips. The carts had the physical space. It's the same thing with BC. It would be easier, to just make a new version of the PS4/X1. That has the Xbox, 360, PS1 etc. hardware. But, it would cost a lot more. So they patch the games, to function on the hardware. Or just stream it.



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OdinHades on 21 March 2017

Devs don't do anything custom at all these days. They are too busy complaining all day. =P



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