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Pavolink on 17 November 2016
lonerism said:
I think the problem isn't porting games to Switch, but the lack of an audience to buy said games

I can guarantee you that what you said it's the real problem. I can also guarantee you that the majority of the audience that get Splatoon and 3D Mario at launch will not be very interested in games like Skyrim.



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maxleresistant on 17 November 2016
Pavolink said:
lonerism said:
I think the problem isn't porting games to Switch, but the lack of an audience to buy said games

I can guarantee you that what you said it's the real problem. I can also guarantee you that the majority of the audience that get Splatoon and 3D Mario at launch will not be very interested in games like Skyrim.

that's always the problem, Nintendo fans are awful when it comes to buy other games. I still hear people that they haven't bought Rayman Legends because it went multiplatform.

Or that they won't buy (insert name of third party game here) because it's not as good as the PS4/one version. But weirdly enough, at the same time, they don't care about the WiiU being underpowered. The logic here baffles me.

I own a WiiU, with games like Black Ops 2, Rayman Legends, GH live, all are awesome.



Pavolink on 17 November 2016
maxleresistant said:
Pavolink said:

I can guarantee you that what you said it's the real problem. I can also guarantee you that the majority of the audience that get Splatoon and 3D Mario at launch will not be very interested in games like Skyrim.

that's always the problem, Nintendo fans are awful when it comes to buy other games. I still hear people that they haven't bought Rayman Legends because it went multiplatform.

Or that they won't buy (insert name of third party game here) because it's not as good as the PS4/one version. But weirdly enough, at the same time, they don't care about the WiiU being underpowered. The logic here baffles me.

I own a WiiU, with games like Black Ops 2, Rayman Legends, GH live, all are awesome.

Here with ME3, ACIII and Revelaitons.



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vivster on 17 November 2016
Miyamotoo said:
walsufnir said:

There are several posts which explain why this doesn't mean it's easy to do. Stating something comparative is of no use here as it doesn't mean anything *concrete* for porting games. 100 degrees is colder than 1000 degrees but that doesn't mean it's cold as is.

Again, I didnt said it will be easy to do (one button and we are done), my point is that will be easier compared to Wii U and thats offcourse positive thing, but from some reason people missunderstood that and try to turn that in something negative..

That's because "easier" doesn't mean a single thing if you can't pin it on something quantifiable. Saying it's easier than Wii U means absolutely nothing. That's why you can't say that it's quantifiably good because it could still make zero difference in the end.

You're the one who thinks that "no difference to Wii U" means something negative.



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Qwark on 17 November 2016
KLXVER said:
OnyxPhoenix said:

Wii U failed from the Flop known as Wii and Switch will fail from the Flop known as Wii U, simple as that, Nintendo is not capable to make gaming conesoles again

Yeah, Wii was a flop. Guess the PS3 and 360 was bigger flops then.

The PS3 was a flop one of the biggest ever in the industry. It nearly bankrupted the playstation brand.



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Miyamotoo on 17 November 2016
JEMC said:
Miyamotoo said:

Wow!? :D

Care to elaborate, for instance in this particular matter, what exalty I wrote that is optimistic, "on another level", or has nothing with reality!?

I'm just expressing the feeling I have from reading your posts from the last months (not just since it was revealed) in regards to NX/Switch.

Simply put, you only see the good side of everything and when someone, anyone, tries to put some context in all the PR talk or expresses concerns about the hardware and/or third party support, you're the first that comes in defense of the device, minimizing them all without proof of anything besides "Switch is more modern tech" that, while true, is not enough.

But don't worry, you're still far from johnlucas level.

So you expressing your feeling about me in this thread and accusing and insulting me without any real examples or facts!?

Yes, I look on things from positive side, but I never wrote unrealistic positive staffs, I wrote realisticall and positive staffs. In this particular matter, I wrote that Switch is very modern tech and architecture and that big difference compared to past Nintendo consoles like Wii and Wii U, and that will affect that porting PS4/XB1 games will be easier compared to Wii U for instance.



DonFerrari on 17 November 2016

What a bunch of BS...

He is just doing PR to try and keep fans interested that they may see 3rd party support. Arm and X86 almost equal? 4,2 Tflops and



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Miyamotoo on 17 November 2016
vivster said:
Miyamotoo said:

Again, I didnt said it will be easy to do (one button and we are done), my point is that will be easier compared to Wii U and thats offcourse positive thing, but from some reason people missunderstood that and try to turn that in something negative..

That's because "easier" doesn't mean a single thing if you can't pin it on something quantifiable. Saying it's easier than Wii U means absolutely nothing. That's why you can't say that it's quantifiably good because it could still make zero difference in the end.

You're the one who thinks that "no difference to Wii U" means something negative.

I already wrote, Switch is Nvidia+ARM, today ARM architecture is most used CPU architecture on market and almost every developer is familiar with ARM, Nvidia is most used GPU architecture on PC market and most of PS4/XB1 multiplatform games are also availibe for PC, with Switch hardware we talking about tech from 2015/2016. Now compare that with Wii U, old IBM PPC CPU architecture from early 2000" and custom ATI Radeon GPU that is if I recall based on Radeon 46xx series (2008. tech) graphic cards. Also Wii U didn't had support for most modern engines, for instance didn't had even support for U4 and it got Unity support very late, while Switch has support for almost evre modern engine.

Thats make quite difference compared to Wii U, and of course there will be noticeable difference with Switch compared to Wii U regardless XB1/PS4 ports.



Naum on 17 November 2016

Wow Nintendo haters really are looking for that tiny straw....



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WolfpackN64 on 17 November 2016

That's a lot of talk from NVIDIA. Porting to other architectures with newer game engines isn't so difficult as it once was period, whether it's x86, POWER, ARM, MIPS, SPARC or something else.