hell I'm buying it digitally and physically, that's $120 to never find out how it ends!
Glad your priorities are in order! Gotta support indie developer Wario
Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven are two of my biggest requested games for the Switch. So far the former happened so I'm definitely supporting it.
These are very clearly tied to alpha effects which implies a memory bandwidth constraint. The Switch has double the bandwidth of the Wii U when docked; this might mean the same effects would bring it down again, possibly as low as 40 fps, but I think it's also reasonable to believe it would only drop in similar scenes as the Wii U release - if they couldn't fix it outright with a bit of work.
I've been so busy enjoying the game I forgot this discussion entirely. SS HD, as a remaster, outclasses TP HD imo. I'm speaking purely on improvements, not the underlying game (I also prefer SS in that case), but there's not really anything TP HD did that SS HD didn't do and then some with the exception of the Cave of Shadows - which was frankly not as fun as I was hoping it'd be.
This is great news! The GOAT is coming back, I hope he's doing better.
I wonder if you can use the game to see if you'll still like it in the future.
Yeah I noticed that, I wonder why they didn't include any song in the opening ceremony then...
I'd say Skyward Sword HD is an outstanding remaster and is better than the other two. It fixes everything annoying about the first game and the motion controls work great. The game itself is allowed to shine through and I think a lot of people are overlooking how great of a game it actually is. Even when you revisit areas, there's so much that opens up and changes that you're always engaged and having a great time. I know people keep saying that motion controls aren't for everyone but I think that, barring a disability, they are. They work so well. I wouldn't recommend the game be played any other way. They take like an hour to get used to and they're the most immersive way to play this game. Maybe that was a hot take I'm not sure. And then the visual upgrades? Wow. The game looks gorgeous. HD really is what this game needed all along. There's a shot when you're ending the first Lanayru dungeon that just look stunning with the light filtering in. The Sand Sea is another standout moment artistically and graphically.
Gonna be August for me if customs will be kind for me. Hopefully it will slip through without me paying fees.
There's a good number of people here that thinks otherwise
To be fair, the Steam Deck probably supports AMD Super Resolution too. It's not as good but close enough. Not that I care either way, I'm more likely to buy a new switch model even though I'm getting the OLED than I am to buy a Steam deck.
I think a new Switch will move more than the Deck not based on the hardware bells and whistles, although those will certainly help. It'll mostly move due to the games. I feel like the Steam Deck, while it has the power, will still fall short of catching steam (bad pun, sorry) just due to a lack of exclusive games. Sure, the Switch might have a super cool gimmick (the switching) but if it didn't have Nintendo games, I don't think it would have even sold a percentage of what it did. You'll point to the Wii U but I think that system would have done much better if it launched with something like Mario Odyssey and maybe a better name. It should speak to the quality and breadth of Nintendo's output that they're worth buying an entire system for. But it should also say something that the last solid Valve game was… Portal 2? What am I missing out on if I don't buy a Deck? I didn't play Half-life Alyx but I wouldn't call that a system-seller. And even if it was, it doesn't seem like the Deck could run it. If Valve really wants to move Decks, they've gotta put in the software work. It's the oldest lesson in gaming that games move hardware and I'm surprised that it seems they didn't consider this in making the system. I hope I'm wrong; It seems like a nifty little device.
PC easily has more exclusive games across its ecosystem than all 3 of the current gen consolew combined, so I don't really think that will be a huge issue. Though I do agree that most of those exclusives don't have the mainstream appeal that Nintendo or Sony's offerings do.
The games may be exclusive to PC but they're not exclusive to the Deck. If I have a big gaming rig, why do I need the Deck? Only a fraction of those people will find a solid reason and therein lies a problem. The tens of millions of people who wanna play Nintendo games can only buy a Switch to enjoy them. The tens of millions of people that wanna play PC exclusive games don't only have to play them on the Deck. You lose a lot of customers that way, in my opinion.
As someone whose gaming time is spent up to 95% on handhelds, I'll simply want to have both devices in their best iteration (if possible). Got a pre-order in for the Oled, pre-ordered a Deck by now, and I'll buy a Pro as well if/when it arrives.
one of the issues I've seen with FSR is that it breaks down at lower resolutions.
why buy a switch when you can run emulators and play switch games!?
the hardware we've been speculating in the hardware thread hasn't changed. the naming is arbitrary and will be dependent on how Nintendo wants to position the device, marketing-wise
It has been said that the DLSS is something on the chip, not the dock.
The motion controls are awful. To say the motion controls are for everyone who doesn't have a disability is kinda ridiculous.
I'm saying the dock would have have all of this in it and you could play games on the dock without the switch or with the switch when using it as storage
