Well, imagine the press and controversy storm that would happen if WSJ.etc commented on Mariko production stopping.
Well yeah, I almost wrote external customer but I thought it would do without
On the note of Splatoon 3, am I mistaken or is this the first one to actually be designed for the Switch in mind at the onset?
That's not necessarily how supply chains work. Production on Erista chips could have ended ages ago and Nvidia has been sitting on the last chips/TX1 boards in their inventory for months, for all we know. They announced the end of support because they've finally sold out. Of course, I'm just talking about the possibilities. You could still be correct (I'm all ears if you have a source that suggests so).
Splatoon 2 was always intended for the Switch. Might have had really early roots on Wii U hardware due to timing and engine, but the Switch was where they wanted to end up.
You mean Splatoon 2 was always intended for the Switch. Splatoon 1 was always a Wii U game from the beginning (it began development in 2013, I believe). Splatoon 2 would have begun development on the Switch back in 2015. It's engine is pretty significantly upgraded over the Wii U one and bears more in common with EAD's other Switch exclusives than any of their Wii U games.
Their Screenshot/Photo mode could be like Bowser's Fury's and it cranks up detail.etc at the cost of FPS, which we wouldn't notice at this point.Some of these shots from Splatoon 3 really don't look like they were captured on the Switch -
They just look way too clean and crisp for the current model.
Don't trust thatSome of these shots from Splatoon 3 really don't look like they were captured on the Switch -
They just look way too clean and crisp for the current model.
I don't have a source, and I am not saying they are regularly pumping them out otherwise, it's just that all the 16/12nm boards have support dates listed 4+ years in the future, rather than months.
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nope, there is another, but Splatoon 3 will likely outsell Splatoon 2.
Are you talking about unannounced first party? And presumably not Pokémon because that's too obvious.
yeah, though it might have been delayed... I'm also possibly over reacting after the direct today, just sounds like botw's sequel did slip to 2022 after all from their wording, however could just be their reluctance to talk about Zelda anniversary until the Mario anniversary finishes.
Do you think it's possible the BotW sequel is on track for 2021, but it's close enough that they're uncertain if it'll stay on track? Because if they don't know when they're releasing that, they can't really decide when to best release the Wii U ports either, and suddenly the lack of Zelda anniversary stuff makes a lot of sense.
There's some people implying more ports will be announced in a few months, so that could mean a Zelda direct in April or May. The AoC DLC timing is what throws off a 2021 release for me.
Skyward Sword HD coming in July indicates to me that more Zelda is coming this year, and in the direct, he did say that the sequel was progressing smoothly, so it could just be a small delay into the holidays... Or I'm still over reacting and there is no delay... I did hear that they wanted to put out 2 trailers this year for the sequel before its release, I thought one was going to be in this direct, but maybe one is in an anniversary announcement, and another is around E3 time (not that I know the timing of an announcement mind you, just saying 2 separate events).
yeah like I mention above, Skyward Sword in July makes me think botw's sequel is probably still this year, but I did mention it slipped into FY (I think I did so in this thread, but definitely on Nintendoera), anyways it's really early in the year to know. I think hardware could definitely launch this fall without botw's sequel this year, there are other games that could use the performance uplift definitely.
Nintendo's established schedule for Directs in the Switch era pre-Covid was late winter, June, early fall. There's still time for Zelda trailers in June and September for a mid-November release, which is where I had it pegged since COVID.
Nintendo has done high resolution pc shots before.Some of these shots from Splatoon 3 really don't look like they were captured on the Switch -
They just look way too clean and crisp for the current model.
Their photo modes also tend to cut framerate for crisp visuals. I'm not saying Splatoon will have a photo mode, just that even if it was rendered on a Switch it wasn't necessarily in realtime at 60fps. Definitely nothing to see here.
I'll just say that 10K leaked Mario Kart 9 is coming this year in nintendoera (he isn't my source for anything, but yeah MK9 is suppose to come this holiday but might be delayed), It will easily sell 20M copies by the end of the FY if it comes out this holiday, and MK8 won't stop selling with MK9 out... MKWii still sold 5 Million+ copies after MK8 released.
I wasn't sure if 10k was still around, hopefully moved on from using SMD as a source.
MK9, BOTW2, Splatoon 3... We can be sure that a new model will be released just before these 3 games. This is the 2nd phase of the Nintendo Gaming Universe.
Yeah, so hopefully botw2 is still this year, MK9 could still come in December and sell 20M by the end of march easily... We really have no idea about the second half, but Splatoon 3 was delayed into next year, heard a while back it was 2021 for that title, so covid has probably delayed it.
Definitely need to bring in Captain Falcon if he's not going to be racing anywhere else:/
Some of these shots from Splatoon 3 really don't look like they were captured on the Switch -
They just look way too clean and crisp for the current model.
From the less powerful to the most powerful:
Their wrong. The new device is much more powerful than the current one.
My estimations are based on Tegra X1+ max clocks (1200MHz). I would expect any better chip to be, at least, as much powerful as Mariko max perf on 12 nm (614 GFLOPs).
yeah, considering the game that was tested in the profile I'm talking about being 1440p, and likely 720p docked on Switch, it's more in the 3-4 times range before DLSS... I don't believe the profile is using DLSS in this part of the settings that is being shown.
Thanks for the summary. Excited that Mario Kart is coming down the pipeline. Hopefully Switch Pro still makes H2 of the calendar year.
That would mean it's around ~1TFLOP min, no? For docked anyway.
the game is 720p on Switch, this model is 3 or 4 times more powerful without DLSS.
That would be a generational leap. So, would you say, more powerful than a PS4 pre DLSS?
Orin S territory with a slight downclock.
More powerful than PS4 on the CPU side. Less raw power from the GPU but on a much more modern uarch.
