Nintendo Switch Preview Trailer

[Barkley]

dark_gh0st_b0y said:

Barkley said:

Yes the video shows switching, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6MWsEE884&feature=youtu.be&t=29s.

Notice how gameplay doesn't stop or freeze for a moment, hell he doesn't even have to pause the game. That shows the dock is doing no gpu/cpu calculations, there's not a chance in hell you can just remove hardware that is performing rendering or calculations like that. It's pretty obvious really.

Though the dock could have inbuilt tech to do fancy upscaling it won't actually do any calculations in the game. It won't give additional cpu,gpu or ram. The best you can hope for is that it overclocks the tech already in the tablet.

I wouldn't stick to that, the purpose of the video is to promote the concept, there could be a process in switching screens that wasn't shown

That would make it possible, however that would also make the video highly misleading, basically false advertising :P

But yeah the concept itself would be potentially possible if you had to press a "safely remove tablet" button or something, and the device goes "OH SHIT HE WANTS TO TAKE IT OUT" finishes up everything it's doing and then switches over to just the handheld cpu/gpu.

Though this would give additional work to developers as how software uses CPU threads is quite integral to the actual foundations of the game.