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zeldaring on 08 September 2023
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sc94597 said:
Chrkeller said:

I know.  The point is Nintendo and only Nintendo sees the value in DLSS and everyone else is stupid?  You don't find it odd literally nobody is going this route?  

I leave it at this, given there is no need to repeat myself...  if this tech was as good as people are making it out to be....  more than just Nintendo would be lining up.  

You are ignoring the economics of this issue. 

Nintendo has a deal with Nvidia that Asus, Valve, etc likely aren't able to get because 1. they will sell an order of magnitude fewer units (Steam Deck sold 1.6 million in 2022) and 2. they are smaller companies with less brand recognition limited to the x86 platform. Nintendo is about five times the size of Valve and 25 times the size of Asus in net-worth. The Switch will sells 10-50 times as many units as a Steam Deck/ROG Ally in a given year. 

There is also the matter that an APU + discrete GPU costs (both in terms of money and power) a lot more than the unit package that is an Nvidia Tegra chip. These companies don't go ARM because  Linux for ARM (and Valve's client) is in its infancy. Other platforms don't even support it. 

Also DLSS is hardly a Nintendo exclusive. There is a reason why Nvidia is dominating the GPU market despite being far more costly -- it's the feature-set that Nvidia GPU's have, whether we are talking about DLSS (for gaming) or CUDA (for GPGPU compute in video editing, 3d-modeling, and Generative AI.) 

DLSS is gonna be useless for switch 2 on most games. people keep talking about DSLL and they don't even know how it works.