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Soundwave on 12 January 2020
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

Hard to know that, I bet when you see EPD/EAD Tokyo/Retro Games running on a Switch that's a generational leap over the current Switch your reaction won't "aw man, this sucks", but more like "wow, I need that". 

Putting sales dick waving aside, there's no Nintendo tech progression which didn't lead to games that were better than they would've been on the prior platform or flat out impossible.

You could play Super Metroid on the NES ... but would you really want to? Breath of the Wild simply wouldn't work on the Wii, not without massively destroying the open structure of the game. 

Keep in mind Nintendo's developers have been stuck using this same basic level of tech since the Wii U launched in 2012 ... that's now going to be like 8 years ago. That's a long time for developers that good to be locked in to basically one generation. 

I'm sure I'll love the leap when it comes, but the longer we wait the better the leap will be, plus the more money's worth I'll get out of my current system.

Unless Nintendo is waiting for matured 3nm 5nm tech which would be stupid, there's really not going to a massive difference in the quality of chip they can get from 7nm, Nvidia likely already has shown them the Switch 2 chip in prototype form.