BlkPaladin said:
Nuvendil said:
I highly doubt Nintendo even bothered requesting Fallout 4 since it will have been out for a year and a half by the time the Switch hits. Skyrim Special Edition also has the advantage of being a remaster that most will be playing to revisit the game. Since they have already played it once, thereare some, potentially many, who would find a more convenient means of playing it quite appealing since they won't necessarily feel the need to have a more focused, immersed setting since the Skyrim world is already very familiar to them.
The systme is absolutely not less powerful than the Wii U. The Zelda and Mario games we saw are games that are almost certainly running on the hardware. And Breath of the Wild has enhanced lighting, shadows, better AA, and higher quality textures especially with LOD. And the Mario game had some really excellent lighting, great textures and effects, looks pretty impressive.
We don't know just how much more powerful than the Wii U it is. If it is using a Tegra 1 that's been modified up the ass, it would be a marked improvement but less than the One by a marked degree as well. If it uses a heavily customized Tegra 2, it could get within porting distance of the One, depending. If it is using essentially a whole new Tegra developed just for it, that would be your best case scenario. We won't know any of this for a while though. But it is more powerful than the Wii U.
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From the sound of the nVidia release it probally is a whole new custom Tegra chip that may be based on the Tegra 2, I don't see a reason why they would base a custom chip off of an older chip, especially one as old as the X1. And from the sounds of this they pulled all the bells and wistles for Nintendo making a powerful chip: custom physics, custom APIs and other tools
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That's my feeling, it is like a Tegra X2.5. Or X2S, if you will.And I could absolutely see Nvidia cutting a sweet deal with Nintendo because 1) Tegra has had a rough time and 2) the Switch would be fabulous PR for the Tegra line.
Also, I would find it hard to believe that Nintendo spent the money to work with Nvidia to get performance they could get elsewhere cheaper. If you are going to work with Nvidia, you might as well take advantage of their tech and skillset.
