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Soundwave on 09 September 2023
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

Here is Nvidia showing off the Tegra X1 (the Switch 1 chip) for the first time at CES 2015 ... guess what they demoed the hardware running ... Unreal Engine 4 Elemental demo, at the time the gold standard engine demo. 

IMO VGC is correct on this.

Unreal Engine 5 Matrix Awakens demo makes total sense as something Nvidia would show for their latest generation Tegra chip almost 9 years later, but this is something obscure enough that I doubt someone would make this connection if they were lying about a rumor. You'd have to have a long ass memory to remember this. 

yea i remember this  and history repeats itself. People talking about how close it was gonna be to compete with ps4 and xbox and they were wrong a usual case with every nintendo system since the GC.

Actually looking at that it isn't misleading at all. The Switch can do those graphics, it would be pushing the higher end of the machine certainly but at 720p docked ... sure why not. 

The main problem the Switch has is to run PS4 games the resulting image quality is ugly and very low res. If DLSS was possible on it and ports looked a lot cleaner and sharper, I think a lot more devs would try with ports, but the incentive really isn't there when you work hard on a port only for it to look somewhat ugly image wise. 

Nintendo isn't really making these systems anymore anyway, they're basically all Nvidia's design, it's not like a "Nintendo chip". It's Nvidia's chip, they're not going to make a shit chip. Also what Nintendo are we even talking about? The Yamauchi Nintendo? The Iwata Nintendo? Neither exist any more who knows how Furukawa thinks but he is far younger and I'm sure he probably grew up with not only a Famicom/Super Famicom, but probably a Playstation and PS2 also. Very different generation. Nintendo's hardware philosophy under Yamauchi was very different than Iwata, Furukawa seems very different himself thus far (no price cuts for the Switch, paid online service a go, no price cuts or Players Choice titles for software, moving into film production, etc. etc.). 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 09 September 2023