Ventura Beat: Nintendo Switch are based on Nvidia's Maxwell Architecture not Pascal

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nuckles87 said:

twintail said:

We have no idea at what capacity DS3 is even running.

The rumour wasn't that it ran at the same level an x1 or ps4 version does, but rather that From found it acceptable. Which doesn't tell us anything about capability .

It tells us plenty. It means the Switch can receive ports of high end current gen games. As I said later in the post, neither the Wii or Wii U could do that. The Wii could not run any version of Demons Souls, the Wii U was far to weak to receive any direct ports of Xbox One or Ps4 games. So the fact that the Switch can says a lot about capability. Sure, we don't know what sacrifices they had to make, but anyone who is expecting anything less than a notable visual downgrade is fooling themselves. But at the very least, for the first time since GameCube, Nintendo might actually be getting direct ports from competitors consoles.

You could get Dark Souls 3 running on the PS3 and 360 if you really wanted to. Hell, last gen Treyarch got Modern Warfare 3 running on Wii.

It's less a question of power and more a question of whether sales justify conversion costs.