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Nuvendil on 22 October 2016
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Rankstrail 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. 

I believe Fallout 4 with the big DLC incoming is more interesting than Skyrim (without mods?) for a decent amount of people, I think they really aren't sure to port that more demanding game to the Switch.

Thank you for your explanation, I will now change my expectations a little but I am still not sold on this, I mean october next year for example we will be able to tell clearly if it gets multiplatform games and with the same frequency the concurrent systems get them, I really am skeptical on this (maybe because Nintendo is willing this too, to appeal to a different audience and get different games).

I still don't get what people expect, since Nvidia makes powerful hardare too, this mobile solution is obviosly much much much weaker to the other processors they produce, I think sometimes people believe the PR guys. (then why buy an Nvidia video card that consumes a lot of Watts and needs a big heatsink when they could sell you mobile Nvidia solutions for gaming for much less?) <-- this is just me joking about console manifacturers false claims all the time (nobody is innocent).

Have a nice day.

Well the thing to remember is the PS4 and Xbone are using fairly old tech and even some mobile tech as well.  And the big question is can the Switch pull out the power out of its Tegra?  Cause there are a lot of factors to that.  A major one is cooling.  The big reason tablets with these powerful chips still can't keep up with laptops with old chips is simply that they are unable to run them full steam because they are so inefficiently cooled and thus can't be allowed to run full steam.  The Switch has some kind of cooling, so how strong that cooling is could effect the capabilities of the chip in practice.  

Nvidia is usually pretty straight forward, though real world performance is again a question because of cooling and other factors.  It will be interesting to see.  And multiplat support will also be interesting.  Bethesda being willing to play ball at all is a very good sign.  As we saw with the Wii and Wii U, they don't commit easily like Ubi and EA do.