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Soundwave on 03 September 2016
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Mr.GameCrazy said:
Soundwave said:

I would buy some multiplats in that case. Lets take a game like Batman: Arkham Knight, again lets say in portable mode it can run like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQxNpEaCsiw

We'll even reduce the resolution to 1024x600 vs 1366x786 which it's running on a mobile Nvidia 830M (this is almost 40% less pixels to render) to save battery life. 

Now if I could take that game at home and plug into a "home dock" which then can run the same game at 900p or 1080p with medium/high effects instead of low effects ... 

I actually would choose the NX version of many multiplats over PS4/XB1. The few extra pixels or whatever in difference in home mode would not cancel out the huge advantage of being able to play the same game anywhere I want and still be able to get almost the same visual fidelity at home. I'd love to have a version of say NHL or FIFA that isn't dramtically different from the console version. 

If Nintendo could deliver that, IMO they'd have a pretty awesome ecosystem. That said, I think unfortunately Nintendo will fuck this up. They always find a way to do so. 

I don't know about Arkham Knight. From what I've heard about the game, it isn't very well optimized for PCs (even wth the updates). Even with the resolution going down, I doubt it will perform well unless they work very hard to fix the performance issues.

I'm just saying hypothetically if the Tegra X2/custom Tegra in the NX can roughly match the performance of a Nvidia 830M which is a lower end laptop GPU ... they'd be able to get even PS4 ports which would be playable well enough. I mean you can see that Batman clip there, it's not as if the PS4/XB1 versions are 10x better.

An 830M is a 550 GFLOP GPU that only uses DDR3 RAM (so 14.4GB memory bandwidth) and its pixel and texture abilities are not exactly higher than the Tegra chips either. It can run other games too like Star Wars Battlefront, the new Forza game, and even The Witcher III runs on it at 768p but with a mid-20s frame rate. 

This is Witcher 3, which is about as demanding of a game as you can get, running on an 830M and it still looks pretty good to me. 1366x768 is still a pretty high resolution, if you brought that down to 1024x600, you'd probably get a higher framerate too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLKCuDCbRv4

Then if you had a home dock, you can close that gap by letting the game run at a higher resolution with higher effects. 

If Nintendo could pull that off, that'd be something, and I actually think the Tegra X2 can perform at that level, but Nintendo will end up doing something stupid like gimping the battery and then gimping the chipset because a mom in their product testing told them the NX was too heavy or something.