SWITCH Rumor Round-up

[TheLastStarFighter]

Wyrdness said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

Iwata said that NX would have to absorb the Wii U architecture.  That might be through emulation, but it could also be through an actual included chip as other systems have done in the past.   Since Wii U sold horribly, there is probably a good business case for Nintendo to port most if not all of the software to NX as quickly as possible.  There could be an argument for including the physical hardwre in some form.

With BOTW, they never said it "required its own version".  They said it will get its own version, which will be the same game experience with better visuals.  Pretty standard, but gives no indication of different architecture, only better performance.

Other systems in the past aren't like what Ruby is claiming, this is a 3.6 terraflop machine she is claiming, that means the tech is on par with PS4 Pro so including extra chips for BC would serve to bump up costs that need to be reduced for the sake of price and possible loss per sale. The only ports Nintendo would want desperately from Wii U would be Smash and Mario Maker tbh everything else they can bring the next installment in.

BOTW getting it's own version is an indicator that it required its own version, TP on Wii had this due to interface and that was ported over with no visual improvement at all, because the experience of BOTW is the same on NX this tells me BC could be in question as clearly the interface is not a problem.

Your logic with BOTW is bizzare.

But with the CPU thing, what I'm talking about is, for example, like what PS3 did with PS2:  the whole chip was included in early models.  This "dual CPU" thing could the Wii U CPU, as well as a new, significantly more powerful 3-core CPU.  The older Wii U chip could handle some tasks for new games, but also provide full emulation.

There is motivation for Nintendo to do this beyond Wii U games.  They've already got a lot of Wii games and other back-catelogue titles working on that system.  If Nintendo wants to fully tap into their library, they should have as many games working as soon as possible and with as little staff effort as possible.

As far as the GPU having 3+ Flops, that's kinda irrelevant to what the CPU does.