I see, although nothing precludes them from adding more performance profiles.
i may upgrade as well if the savings go to increased battery life (at least a full hour). a couple of extra frames here and there won't make me upgrade tho.
Lots of stuff is made with Unity which only works on the New 3DS because it needs the CPU power.
If they're looking to advertise these as either "new 64GB storage model!" or even just "new, Octarine coloured edition!" it's a good bet it will be out in time for the sales run-up to the holidays.
Not sure what you're getting at. Games use profiles to set their processor and GPU speeds on the Switch (both docked and portable) and different games use different ones with different clocks on both CPU and GPU than others. This is 100% how it works. Nintendo can apply an override at a system level (this is how hackers do it after all) but it doesn't make sense to do so on a blanket level when there are over 2000 games on the system and there is always the chance that doing so can break a game for whatever reason and it seems unlikely that Nintendo will be wanting to test every game them self.
Switch Lite will still use a 720p screen, there is nothing to suggest this model won't also use a 720p screen.
It would be rare for hardware clock increases to cause game instability, that would be abnormal, and at worst would only be an issue for games that are locked at a certain res/fps. Anything already utilizing dynamic ranges for res or fps would not be impacted. Ultimately Nintendo could very easily just make it an opt-in type thing, as the vast majority of games don't really need the clock speed boosts anyway. Additionally, given that the Mariko has been around and known about for well over a year, developers are assuredly already in the know about this revision.
The Lite is absolutely not getting a 1080p. It's 720p.
It has nothing to due with that, it has to do with how back in the day, devs used to use CPU clock as a timer. If you increase the clock, you increase the speed at which the game runs at. It is very rare for that to happen today but you can never rule it out 100%.
In the sense that a Jasper Xbox 360 "phased out" a Falcon, yeah, that'd be my guess.
Sounds good to me, I was worried it was only going to increase battery life with no power boost
It's not even necessarily back in the day. There are plenty of NES/SNES/N64 games that you can play over clocked (most emulators have at least a hidden option for it somewhere) and still work fine. It's all about how a game is built and tested. If a game is built with only a specific hardware or environment in mind, making the game run outside of it always leaves it open to the possibility of unexpected results.
No, but it serves to emphasize just how sub-native resolution the content is, and makes the additional power draw of the higher res screen largely pointless.
Correct, that's what I was trying to get at. No one is designing games around CPU speed or tying framerates to design logic anymore, outside of a few cases over the last decade. If there were to be such a case though it would be those that are locked at a specific FPS though, not a variable FPS. Maybe I'm off base with that though.
Here's the thing about using the phrase "no one would do silly thing X" with regards to software developers, especially not necessarily super experienced ones (and there's a ton of indie content on the Switch)
It could've been Nvidia's tweet lol, they claimed it had 1080p graphics
He just said it has higher clocks than the switch lite that's a power boost, big or small it's still more power
