It does not, but maybe they'll give us a model that does but the base model doesn't to lower the price
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*** The Official Nintendo Switch 2 ***
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It does not, but maybe they'll give us a model that does but the base model doesn't to lower the price
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There was supposedly an agreement that they would come to Switch, but recently there's been some leaks/rumours about things like Halo Masterchief Collection, MSFS 2024 and other previously Xbox exclusive stuff coming to Switch 2.
I kind of wonder what is the value of brining the Masterchief Collection to the switch? It's been about long enough I don't know if it's worth full price, I wonder if they can do something to it to add more to it.
My one fear of the switch 2 is that they just port games to it without adding value to it and in a couple of years we get the old "we are not supporting the switch because x didn't sell"
My one fear of the switch 2 is that they just port games to it without adding value to it and in a couple of years we get the old "we are not supporting the switch because x didn't sell"
It's using an old tegra chip, with graphics based on Nvidia ampere , apparently the graphics will be on par with an Xbox 1 / ps4
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People are happy enough to write off battery life on some of the handheld consoles like Steam Deck, ROG Ally or Legion Go but Nintendo customer's won't be - they need to strike a balance between performance and endurance as they always tend to have.
Hopefully the larger sized device means they've been able to squeeze in some extra battery capacity; it would be good if it had the endurance the OLED model had (or the Original "upgrade") rather than of the original 2017 launch model.
Hopefully the larger sized device means they've been able to squeeze in some extra battery capacity; it would be good if it had the endurance the OLED model had (or the Original "upgrade") rather than of the original 2017 launch model.
My point above isn’t referencing steam decks etc. it’s a reference to what I have in my hand, a phone.
Sure the GPU in the new switch is likely to be faster than what I have in my phone but it will not be that much faster and also the battery will be far larger.
Sure the GPU in the new switch is likely to be faster than what I have in my phone but it will not be that much faster and also the battery will be far larger.
The chip is not a modern chip, mostly built on years old technology with more modern bits attached.
The chip is a custom chip, with a mix of ampere Lovelace architecture (apparently). It's reported that dlss3 might be compatible with switch 2, I think the memory bandwidth and arm clock cores are what will hold the chip back, so I'd expect rtx3050/60 ISH performance, the switch will probably only be able to do 1080p convincingly relying on upscalers when attached to the telly.
I'm just hoping for a larger perf difference between modes. The docked Switch 1's performance was too close to handheld; in Docked mode battery drain matters nothing, so they should be pushing max performance in docked mode and max battery in handheld.
For example if Nintendo wants to run 5w TDP in Handheld that's fine, but give us 25w TDP in docked so the machine runs at max clocks.
The Switch 1 gains double performance when you manually overclock it, literally breath of the wild goes from 30fps to 60fps in docked mode after you manually overclock it. All that performance Nintendo could have given docked users but they didn't. Nintendo can't afford to give up all that performance again
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