Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

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spemanig said:

Captain_Yuri said:
The more I look at it, the more this transition really feels like GC to Wii.

The wii was what? 2 Gamecubes taped together with new gimmick priced at around $250 with a Zelda game on both?

The Switch looks to be 2 wiiU's taped together with a new gimmick priced at around $250 with a Zelda game on both?

Now obviously, different arch, portable vs motion controls and etc but eerily similar. The question really will be, is being a portable really enough to sell like how the wii did? Specially on how the times and circumstances have changed such as launching during the mid cycle of the other consoles and mobile competition.

2017 will be an interesting year for sure.

If the Switch gets multiplats, yes. If the Switch doesn't, then there's literally no frame of reference, so I don't see how.

That's the thing about it being portable. The only reason portability is valuable is if you can play your normal games with added flexability. Portability has no value as a mass market product if everything on it is exclusive, because everything not on it is "exclusive" to everyone else. Portability becomes valuably only when multiplats are there as a frame of reference.

I can play Call of Duty glued to my TV on PS4/XBO/PC, or I can play it any way I want on Switch. I can play GTA glued to my TV on PS4/XBO/PC, or I can play it any way I want on Switch. I can play Destiny glued to my TV on PS4/XBO/PC, or I can play it any way I want on Switch. If Switch loses that, it almost completely loses it's value proposition.

What do you mean by "frame of reference"?

But I do think initally there will be multiplats. I doubt it will get something like Red Dead or ME:A but I think things like Cod, Asscreed and etc will be on there similarly to how the wiiU got them. After the inital ones, it will probably depend on how they sell.