Soundwave said:
Seeing how much trouble Nintendo is having getting even Zelda: BotW out (one of basically only 2 "epic" scaled games on the Wii U from them, the other being Xenoblade X) ... I mean realistically how long do you think it would take them to adjust to making games that visually are on par with Horizon, Final Fantasy XV, Uncharted 4, etc.
It would take forrrrrrrrrrrrever for them to complete a Zelda, lol. This generation even Sony/MS/third parties have taken a long time, virtually every major title seems to have been delayed 1-2 times.
I don't think Nintendo was all that enthusiastic about that whole idea anyway, spend more money making the same games without growing the audience is not a great business proposition least of all to Nintendo. Sony/MS do it because they're beholden to the "epic gaming" crowd and have no choice but to continue to feed them that style of gaming even if it means the games cost more and more and can sink a studio if they don't sell well.
I wouldn't be all that shocked honestly if Switch is not *that* much more powerful than the Wii U in actual practice. I think Nvidia overstates some of the performance claims of their Tegra line too, the Tegra X1 had one really good PS3/360 port (Doom 3 BFG Edition), but even that had significant cut backs on model/texture complexity.
I think Nintendo is just fine and dandy working on PS3/360/Wii U-level graphics. Zelda and Xenoblade X probably already cost too much as is in their eyes.
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I think this guy's video does put some of the rumored info of the Switch into perspective.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwh3Yvabw1c
He also has a follow up video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iefwS--6eHo
im no tech expert but this could provide a new opportunity for Nintendo, Nvidia, and third parties. Not saying that the power of the switch will match with the Xbone, but processing can be smoother and more up to date than previous Nintendo consoles since they've been running on very old tech (as he said, the Wii U basically uses a CPU that is bundled from old tech from many years ago. I'm not sure if Nvidia is overstating that much.
