| Intrinsic said: We are mostly in agreement. But to be clear, this thing is not as powerful as the XB1. The power difference between it and the XB1 would be similar to the power difference between the XB1 and the PS4. And that's just talking processing power. Things like memory size and bandwidth can also make things a little worse too. 3/3.2GB of available game ram compared to 5GB on the XB1. Even if devs wanted, they couldn't possibly fit identically rezzed textures on the switch as you would see in the XB1. But this isnt all bad, cause as 720p console it would be a killer. And I personally don't think there is anything wrong with 720p. Playing on the mobile screen it would look ridiculously good as you have said, but when output to the large screen we should see an image that is all round softer than the XB1 but still look good. I think the best thing about the Switch is that all its development would be tailor made for its mobile screen. And it's performance would be built for 720p. So when its running to a TV it would just be upscaled. If it's treated as a 720p console, devs can work wonders with its hardware. |
That's basically my thoughts as well. Though I don't think the RAM will be the bottleneck, I'm betting the GPU is the difference maker. Eitherway, I'm positive it can and will have some of the best 3rd party support Nintendo has seen in many generations as long as
1) Nintendo moves to solely support NS going forward. Personally, I think they will announce a ton of games for NS and stop putting anything new on 3DS this coming year.
2) NS has a solid launch. By solid I see sellouts at launch and at least through May getting to ~5MM by then.
If we see this kind of appeal, then in June, nearly every multiplat game will be PS4/XB1/NS. Save only the biggest games that were way too far into development to put resources to NS by the time they got dev kits very late 2016. Unless NS is showing Wii-like demand, then even those will come.
Now, I clamour on about the 3rd party support only because I'm a cheap bastard and would rather not buy games on multiple consoles. Personally, Nintendo alone is enough for me to own a NS and I already own a X1. But, with the middle-ware support NS will have, I can't see a logical reason any business wouldn't port the game over even if it only sold 1/2 it does on other consoles. That's a lot of profit to be made.
Though I do think that once its out, people will switch over for the portability functionality alone. Those of you to never have owned a WiiU don't understand how awesome the off-tv functionality is with the gamepad.
