Nvidia: Porting PS4, Xbox One, and PC games to Nintendo Switch is simple

[DonFerrari]

torok said:
The funniest thing here is that Nvidia has been talking crap about consoles since the gen started, simply because AMD got all contracts to make theirs GPUs. They were outdated, useless, etc. Now that they have one console in their hands, it suddenly is a technical achievement, a masterpiece of design and a proof of how far humanity has evolved.

However, it is an ingenuous design and porting current gen titles to it won't be much of an issue since it's basically a toned down Maxwell or Pascal GPU.

Yes... PS4 and X1 were jokes because they were so weak, but then releasing a half the power X1 3 years later is a groundbreaking success.

Miyamotoo said:

vivster said:

That's because "easier" doesn't mean a single thing if you can't pin it on something quantifiable. Saying it's easier than Wii U means absolutely nothing. That's why you can't say that it's quantifiably good because it could still make zero difference in the end.

You're the one who thinks that "no difference to Wii U" means something negative.

I already wrote, Switch is Nvidia+ARM, today ARM architecture is most used CPU architecture on market and almost every developer is familiar with ARM, Nvidia is most used GPU architecture on PC market and most of PS4/XB1 multiplatform games are also availibe for PC, with Switch hardware we talking about tech from 2015/2016. Now compare that with Wii U, old IBM PPC CPU architecture from early 2000" and custom ATI Radeon GPU that is if I recall based on Radeon 46xx series (2008. tech) graphic cards. Also Wii U didn't had support for most modern engines, for instance didn't had even support for U4 and it got Unity support very late, while Switch has support for almost evre modern engine.

Thats make quite difference compared to Wii U, and of course there will be noticeable difference with Switch compared to Wii U regardless XB1/PS4 ports.

So now ARM is a very common chip in gaming PCs? We are always learning something new.

And about you being over optimistic I can't even see how can you deny that since you always refuse to accept the possibility that the positive rumors aren't true and the negatives are true, and when people try to show the outcome is hardly be what you expect you always go to "it isn't confirmed yet" but you use the same type of information to prop and hype.