Nintendo reportedly showed a demo of the ‘Switch 2’ console at Gamescom which included visuals comparable to the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
The company is understood to have held private tech demos, ahead of an expected 2024 launch…
Uh huh.
I mean sure, two outlets reporting it, but I'll believe it when I see it. With the Switch Pro/2/U/360/Series N in particular, the leaks were always so outlandish and in the end turned out false, while we can clearly assume the overall news about a Switch successor being in development to be real, any specific piece of news I'd immediately discard and put into the "made up stuff"-folder for the time being.
Remember when Switch was comparable to PS4?
Or when they told us that you'd be able to cross platform with xbox and you play streaming xbox games to get better graphics.
This report would make the switch more powerful than a steamdeck. I’ll believe it when I see it
Doubt.
Terrible title. “Switch 2 supports ray tracing and will use upscaling” is the summary. Which is obvious, it won’t be anywhere near consoles, it’s like 1/7th resolution.
Compared to does not mean equal to... lol
Honestly the swtcih is so far off in performance that if the new switch performs like the ps4 it's already a win.
Exactly. Oranges are comparable to apples, doesn’t mean they share much in common
And even if some prototype device is, that doesn’t mean the production device will be, once things like heat and power usage have to really be accounted for.
It doesn't even matter a lot if it does have really good graphics capability. Nvidia is good at that (though whether they'd price that where Nintendo wants is questionable). The question is what Nvidia can give in a CPU, because the only ARM CPU out there that's actually interesting in terms of efficient per core performance is Apple.
True, but it does suggest they are in the same league. Not saying it is, but able to be compared suggests that it may be as good in some aspects.
I feel like I'm in the minority when I'm looking forward to Nintendo making a high-powered console for once. The last time their hardware was on par with or better than the rest of the industry was the Gamecube, which was an amazing little system.
even then, the gamecube had mini discs instead of full sized ones, so games couldn't be as big
the n64 was behind in a similar way, using cartridges when cds were starting to become the norm
I dont think itll be high powered, thats just the reporter adding something for clickbait.
Im one to believe in Bobby Kottick mentioning that the Switch 2 is roughly the power of a PS4 as he was in contempt of the court when his leak of its performance was discussed. the handheld likely has better cpu performance though vs ps4, as its basically in the same playing field as the steam deck is, both companies who can sit and make thir 30% cut from developer games.
Tldr, dont expect Series S perf, expect steam deck performance with better battery and DLSS support to 4k (i personally believe itll target 1080p60, and use DLSS Performamce preset to upscale to 4k, as 1440p tvs arent common)
Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.
You're not. I've been wanting this since the GameCube, the last Nintendo system that was built with performance in mind and advertised as such. The Wii was a step in the wrong direction, and it was all downhill from there as far as my head canon is concerned. I'm glad that Nintendo is finally catering to fans like us again after waiting patiently for 22 years.
1.5 year edit: lol nvm
Nintendo never makes high power consoles that's not really their area. So I'd be surprised if this is true.
And what does PS5 equivalent graphics even mean? We just talking screen resolution or are we saying it can push the same poly count. I'd be prepared to accept it might get 1080p maybe 4k on a good day, but that'll only be on low poly assets.
Both the N64 and the GameCube were built and marketed with performance in mind (especially the N64). Maybe you're just too young to remember the ads.
yeah, Project Reality
Today's consoles are pretty different than the n64 or GameCube tho
Apparently the ps5 comparison is because they ran the same tech demo that the ps5 did 2 years ago. But that doesn't really mean anything. At this point Nintendo may still be working with a wide range of specs on prototypes before finalizing a decision about what the console will be.
I find this hard to believe. At this point Switch 2 "rumors" have just been used for clickbait now.
I think they're working on it but it won't be for awhile.
Maybe I'm in the minority (doubtful since the switch is super popular) but I don't need the Switch2 to be better than current/next gen as far as hardware goes. It's portability, flexibility and funativity are what sells the thing for me. I've got a PC if I want to play fancy pants AAA games. One day, I'll probably have a Steam Deck. I like playing Zelda and Mario, etc. on my Switch like it's a the Super-Mega-Gameboy that I dreamed about as a youth. I sometimes play it docked, but probably 80+% of my game time on it is in handheld mode.
If the Switch 2 was basically a PS5-esque console (non-mobile, regular console), I'm sure I'll eventually pick one up to play Nintendo exclusives, but mostly that would just hasten my purchase of a Steam Deck.
Even if it was portable but had so much performance I wouldn't want it bc then the battery life would be bad.
I don't doubt it... Nintendo is always years behind.
The PS5 came out in 2020 and this Switch2 is probably a year away. So that would make their hardware be roughly 4 years old in terms of power. Plus if this is roughly the size of the current Switch, it won't be pushing more than HD-resolutions (current Switch is only a 720 display), so getting PS5-level graphics on a 1080 screen these days is not particularly complicated or expensive.
God of war 2016 PS 4 original setting at 720p on steam deck is about 30 fps. On ROG Ally afew frames less if you run it at 15 watts, at 45 watts Ally can probably do 720p at 50ish fps but less than an hour of battery. Ally is the top of line 2023 AMD tech apu and cost $700. Mobile technology is amazing right now, but it’s just not at a level where it can do 3 years old desktop graphics at a reasonable cost/power consumption.
Current switch does 1080 docked already , so while I hope it'll have at least 4k menus and 4k light games, I'd settled for 1080 again with some sorta more advanced AA for first party games
it's screen is 720. I would not expect Nintendo to go above 1080 on the screen and maybe output a scaled-up 4K when docked.
I've got a steam deck and a host of other steam deck competitors that do that and more now.
I’ve got steam deck and ROG ally, both barely do 720p 45fps PS4 pro level games, and forget about battery life.
The appeal of Nintendo console is first party exclusives and whatever the new gimmick may be (I don’t mean that word as a bad thing, I have loved most of their gimmicks). Powerful hardware just means that it can potentially have a good third party support, so that you’re not left playing just the first party games.
My expectations for the switch successor are reasonable I think
Backwards compatible with the Switch
performance boost when docked (I’d be perfectly happy with solid 1080p 60fps)
Mobile performance of 720p 60fps (lower detail settings than docked)
And I dunno just get a modern fucking friend/online system or at the very least let me integrate discord lol
I'll believe they made something on the same level as the competitors when the console actually comes out. An unreleased demo console is not something you should be using as a benchmark for how good the visuals are since the product will most likely go through a significant amount of changes in-between the demo and release.
Even then, there's the chance that if the console is coming out a few days later, there is no guarantees they didn't use an old demo console that is outdated compared to what will be released or wasn't made specifically with the goal in mind of overselling the console by pouring resources into making the demo console actually better than the release one.
meh doesn't seem too likely
With DLSS 3.5 I see it
To use the PS5 as an example, it's based on Zen 2 and RDNA 2, both of which are now deprecated. It would not be surprising for Nintendo to match them at this point in the cycle.
Can't wait till graphics are better than reality!..
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lol, 3 years into the current gen and switch 2 only competes. Seriously
If it's portable, that's a game changer.
Aside from possibly the N64 and GameCube, Nintendo has never tried to push technology in that way.
And it's been true since the very first console. The Master System was more powerful than the NES, and the Genesis/Mega Drive was more powerful than the Super NES (arguably; the Sega CPU was far more powerful than Nintendo's). Same is true for its portables.
They've always prioritized per-unit margins. It's a conservative approach, but it means profit on every console sold.
So there's a 0% chance this console is actually as powerful as a PS5. However, there's a good chance there are hardware and software techniques being used to upscale a lower resolution image.
