JWeinCom said:
superchunk said:
The best rumors... the ones people who have actually stated facts that were proven true are that NS is not equal or XboxOne... it's less than XboxOne.
The CPU is actually better in NS as the Jaguar in XboxOne/PS4 is a craptastic low-power mobile CPU that has plenty of docs to show that ARM is better... and yes it is just as easy now to put shit on ARM as it is X86 so don't preach that BS.
However, the GPU is definitely less than Xbox One which is in turn less than PS4. This doesn't mean games could not be ported to NS, just that they will need to be lower graphically... i.e. scaled down. Where WiiU flatly could not be ported to once they moved on from PS360 middleware (and it wasn't worth the cost to make that technology work with WiiU), the NS can be ported to based on out-of-the-box functionality on the most significant middleware such as Unity/Unreal/etc. Once EA adds the functionality (low cost) for their tools, which will be required for mainstream stuff like Madden and Star Wars, they will have every incintive to put every other game on there as well. (same with any other dev specific tooling)
Base XboxOne/PS4 will be around for a few more years and as such, scaling to those systems will be important meaning it won't be much of an issue to push to NS as is. Then in 3-ish years when the next XBoxOne/PS5 is coming, Nintendo can pull a PS4Pro/Scorpio with the NS and keep up the trend of being a low bar tech machine with the best first party line-up known to man.
So... power isn't the big issue at this point... the supportive tech/middleware is where it is at. So long as NS is low cost with excellent Nintendo exclusives, it can do very well in the market and will only be better off with 3rd party support too.
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Thanks for that.
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But the issue also comes up for how third party games perform could ultimately be how long Nintendo is supported by third parties. With that, the question of even if it can be ported easily, will optimization be a priority for Switch or not? There were games that were better on Wii U than PS3 and Xbox 360 (Need for Speed, Rayman, and even ZombiU with some arguably having the best version over the Ps4 and Xbone) yet they didn't sell. Now people are expecting ports which will not be able to compete with last gen hardware will do better? I don't see it.
