Hardware Switch super underpowered according to Respawn Entertainment

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I play games for the fun, not for the power of the console.
If I played only for the power I've already burned my PSX, my Wii, my Wii U and my good ol' ZX Spectrum +3, 'cause they're all unpowerful crap right?

Well, we keep repeating the same argument. I never said this is not true. I do the same. To put my reasoning in a simpler way, assume you want to buy a car and manufacturer A has much bigger support on electronics, tyres, parts etc while manufacturer B does not. Count in that manufacturer B has worse finish in the car insides and at the same time consider that manufacturer B is selling at a bigger price point, merely because of 1 extra feature that might be important for some of the target group - 4x4 movement.

The way i see it, Nintendo is manufacturer B trying to compete with manufacturer A. All they have against them at the moment is portability and 1st party support. Even if you do not care about the trimmings.

I stil have my Gb, Gbc, Gba, Ds, Dsi, Ds lite, 3ds, 3ds+, Wii, N64, Snes, Nes, Gc, WiiU, Virtual boy, lynx, jaguar, 2600, 3do, dreamcast, mega drive, master system, game gear, mega cd, saturn, xbox, xbox360, xbox 1, psx, ps2, ps3 ps4. I love all of them for their own good reason. I am not shitting on any of them for being inferior. I just feel Nintendo is going to have another WiiU simply because of their choices. I am happy there are people thinking otherwise.

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What facts? The reality is that we have absolutely no information about the Switch's hardware. And no, BotW is not a proof. 900p is normal because the game was originally supposed to be Wii U-only. How could they have had the time to redo all the textures for 1080p ?

I am not taking sides in any argument here, but redoing textures is much simpler than what it sounds really. Since most textures come from higher res sources (photos, computer graphics, cgi renders etc) all they would need to do essentially is batch resave them. Just saying. Now for what the reason might be... my guess would be saving money, even if we are talking about 1-2 months of development.

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Nice one, didn't see that one, kept looking everywhere at the other one with the companies. Honestly, it does not make me very excited for many of the releases but this is of course personal. Which ones are you looking forward to?
 
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Yeah, but you know BotW took more and more dev time, at the point it was set as one of the Nintendo Switch launch titles. These 1-2 months could have led to the game delayed to April (for example), and we would have ended up with 1,2,Switch being the main launch title :P And they were developing tons of games for the Switch, so...
About the games, I'm really looking forward Super Mario Odyssey, since that's an open-world tile. FIFA also hypes me since the last FIFA on Wii U was FIFA 14 :P An really, I think 1 Tflop would be more than enough (ie Tegra X1). If you want better graphics, just go and purchase a nice budget gaming PC with an i5 and an Nvidia GTX 9xx and you'll blow away PS4 Pro/Xbox Scorpio :P People should really see the fact that putting even more than the Wii U's power into a portable console with more than 20 minutes of battery like is almost magic, but they keep whining on the FPS :P
 

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The only valids comparison we will see will be the multiplatforms games, like NBA2K18 and FIFA18. We will have (I hope) the exactly same game on each platform, and then we will be able to compare textures, fps, tramedrops and more. ATM, this all discussion is a nonsense
 
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The only valids comparison we will see will be the multiplatforms games, like NBA2K18 and FIFA18. We will have (I hope) the exactly same game on each platform, and then we will be able to compare textures, fps, tramedrops and more. ATM, this all discussion is a nonsense
Yup, especially considering the fact the topic started with the interview of someone drunk
 

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Hahaha delusional fanboys. Well believe what you want. I'm not gonna do the work for you. Enough videos on digital foundry lazy fanboy
You call me delusional, but you dont seem to understand how society works today.
When you say a "fact", you need to provide source, you dont say "look on internet and youll see", its your job to provide source to prove your point.
Otherwise, your point has no value
 

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that guy looks dumb, how did he get a switch in the first place?
how did he get those data?
I call that fake
They don't have the Switch, but some journalists were allowed to record game footage from the Nintendo Switch events in US and EU. And Digital Foundry have their own frame rate and pixel counter to accurately analyze the games they've played and give out information for people, like us, that can't do any of that.
 

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They don't have the Switch, but some journalists were allowed to record game footage from the Nintendo Switch events in US and EU. And Digital Foundry have their own frame rate and pixel counter to accurately analyze the games they've played and give out information for people, like us, that can't do any of that.
Atleast someone who knows their shit on this post :D
 

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