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Soundwave on 13 January 2026
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Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:

Define several generations ahead? You really need that spelled out for you?

Ampere is comparable to AMD RDNA 2 (better than it actually) which is better than the hybrid RDNA 1/2 mix the PS5/XBox Series X have. 

The PS4 is a dated GCN 2.0 architecture from 2012/13 which is miles behind RDNA 2 and Ampere. 

The Switch being able to run next-gen games Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Shadows already early in its product cycle without much fuss, and having PS5/XSS only titles like 007 First Light, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Indiana Jones, and Monster Hunter Wilds basically confirmed whereas the PS4 likely would not be able to run these games without serious retooling of the games is no surprise to me. I said this many times here and got attacked for saying so. 

I said years ago here the architecture fucking mattered, the actual Nvidia data leak was right there staring everyone in the face, 1536 CUDA cores with Ampere architecture and even some Lovelace features, but only a handful of people here seemed to grasp what that even meant. That was always going to be significantly better than a PS4 and be able to run games a PS4 can't and I said that many times and got grief for saying so. 

I even said that chip would likely be powerful enough that it would likely cause Japanese developers like Square-Enix to make their mainline big budget Final Fantasy games available on Switch 2 as well, and lookey lookey ... not only FF7 Remake Integrade but FF7 Rebirth AND their next big FF mainline release FF7 Remake Part III is indeed confirmed for Switch 2. 

I also said many times also this was not a budget hardware and would likely cost $400 only if you were lucky, likely $450 or more looking at the component leaks. 1536 CUDA cores, 12MB RAM, 256GB high speed internal storage, 8 inch display, this was not some rinky dinky bargain basement cheap hardware, but you had a lot of people here thinking $350 was in play (lol). Because I was looking at the actual leaks and the components therein, not basing thingson a stupid "dur hur Nintendo cannott make gud hardwarez this is will beeez just like da Wii You again when Ninty fans got too excitied" line of logic. 

Lol, your actual prediction was $500+, with $600 being in play.  The rest of us were around $400, and the S2 is $450...  pretty spot on.  

As for 1536 cuda cores, jesus man, that isn't high end.  That is below a 2050 which launched five years ago.  The 5050 is 2560 cuda cores.  Not a fair comparison because it is desktop versus mobile, but I am rocking over 16,000 cude cores.  I don't get why 1536, which is below mobile GPUs from 2020 is such a shock. 

and if you compare fps and resolution of cross gen games with the ps4 and switch 2...  pretty much exactly the same, with the ps4 pro beating out the S2.   

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And don't get me wrong, DK Bananza is a fantastic game, but it is 1080p with fps issues.  The S2 wasn't the 4k machine you made it out to be, it just flatly isn't.  

The system is $500 ... so? Especially the model that virtually everyone is paying for 99% of people are spending $500 on Switch 2. I was right on that, I was right that it wasn't going to be cheap because there is some serious hardware under the hood, a budget device would be far less ambitious in the specs. There's a whole fucking avalanche of angry Youtube videos on the pricing of the system, so don't tell me that everyone and their grandma was expecting the price to be in that range, no they weren't. It was fairly obvious if you looked at the hardware being presented in the leaks and used common sense from there. 

1536 CUDA Ampere blows the shit out of a PS4. That also was obvious if you weren't blinded by bias. There's no surprise to me that it's getting PS5-only games with no fuss even early in the product cycle. 

I said it then too specs of that caliber would be a game changer especially for big Japanese developers, they would have to seriously look at putting all their big ticket console IP on the Switch like the next Final Fantasy and Resident Evil and yes I even said Monster Hunter Wilds. And what happened? Bang, bang, and bang, even when people said "no way is Square-Enix gonna hold back the Final Fantasy mainline games for Nintendo!". Final Fantasy VII Remake Part III already confirmed for Switch 2 ... boom just like that. Resident Evil 9 ... confirmed for Switch 2. Now we find out even MH Wilds is apparently coming.

The Christmas day leaker guy who put who slightly altered images of the system (to protect his ass) also deserves some damn props in hindsight. Virtually everything that guy/gal said turned out to be correct.