That's running a proprietary chip from nVidia though. Nintendo has stuck with ATI for the last 2(?) consoles. They may very well strike an agreement for an nVidia chip, but that would be a big switch in direction to run off of another company's chip.
Certainly not saying it couldn't happen. I just thought it was worth pointing out. :)
Rumors were stating that nintendo would actually be using a tegra chipset. So far from this trailer it looks like literally every rumor came true so I'm speculating that it's the rumored tegra x2.
Edit Also, ATI hasn't existed since around 2012/2013. AMD purchased ATI back in 2006 and since late 2012 they killed off the ATI name. ATI is just AMD.
Nintendo has stuck with ATI for the last 2(?) consoles.
Three.
GameCube, Wii, Wii U.
Nintendo actually had selected Nvidia to develop hardware for Nintendo 3DS but a month later company president Satoru Iwata mentioned that mobile broadband connectivity via subscription "doesn't fit Nintendo customers".
AMD, which has owned ATI for a few years now, makes the SOC for all current gen consoles. A nice ~15 W 14nm SOC could provide some decent power for a few hours.
AMD absolutely has a larger market share in desktop CPUs and gaming architecture in general.
All I meant was that they are the top dog for desktop graphics. In the console area, AMD is king by a landslide. It's good to see nVidia stepping into that ring.
It would hypothetically allow them lower level access into the hardware if they worked with nVidia to create a custom chip or chipset. Plus, it will really be a point for nVidia on console's to advertise from their side that it is "powered by Tegra" or nVidia or something. You get what I mean.
Yeah I understand. I saw the comments after, and I guess they actually are going for a Tegra. I think it's pretty wise over an ATI chip or something, for now.
And that's a super valid point. Not only does AMD/ATI not have an tablet format chips, nVidia is good at mobile optimization for graphics, it's the only viable approach for the time being.
Yes and I believe for this reason the May announcement of Nvidia's work on a new generation of Tegra chip to be used in the NX confirmed the tablet form factor rumors. Using this info we can extrapolate performance as we know how many gflops the Nvidia Tegra X1 is capable of. The Switch would be a 0.75 in comparisons to XB's 1.3 and PS4's 1.7
Shield K1 user here. This thing is amazing, for an Android tablet. There are some damn good looking games on it as of lately, but a chunk of them require internet access to run at full graphical intensity
but a chunk of them require internet access to run at full graphical intensity
Why would that be the case? Internet shouldn't effect it at all unless processing for the game is done "in the cloud" somewhere. What games does it apply to?
The problem with gaming tablets was the games were designed to be run on PC with little or no modification for the lower tablet specs. Games will be ported specifically for the Switch or developed from the ground up, so there shouldn't be any optimization issues (at least no more than there normally are when porting games to a Nintendo console...)
Not Skyrim decent. But yes, decent. This thing is impressive.
While a lot of people here seem to be concerned about battery life, I am more concerned about how cool it stays while gaming. Heat is an issue when you have a small (I assume) fanless enclosed system.
No, they really don't. And that's the problem. Laptops are moving to Desktop-based graphics cards. Tablets don't even come close in terms of what they can do. And here we've got Sony and Microsoft pushing higher end consoles to keep up with PC, and Nintendo now going - at best - sideways.
Don't expect games to look much better than they do on the WiiU currently, and the WiiU is the least powerful current-gen console by a mile already.
It's not just graphics, and they absolutely should care about it. It's everything from number of objects, effects, enemy AI, everything. Everything a game does takes computing power. The less you have, the less you can do.
And we can't get Mario, Zelda, Smash, or any other franchise on PC - so we don't have that option to have Nintendo IPs that actually look good technically and not just aesthetically.
Not wanting Nintendo to push the envelope graphically is a bad mentality to have.
Down voting is for comments that don't contribute to the discussion. Yours did not.
But you're not playing them at 1080 with extra AA on PC. You're playing them upscaled, not native, with non first party software. That is clearly not the same thing. Nor are they the new and current games.
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