Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
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I mean, my phone can emulate switch games at a better quality than a switch can play them in docked mode. Considering that when it launched the switch wasn’t it wasn’t top of the line specs, and I don’t expect 2 to be.
Edit: pressed post before I was finished 🤦
Above the line was typed before I got curious about what the actual specs are.
Nintendo states that the CPU/GPU are “Nvidia custom chips”.
However, this article from 16th of January (updated 24th of March,) references a leak that says the CPU is an Arm Cortex-A78C, a chip from 2020, it’s an ARMv8.2, and the GPU is an Nvidia T239 Ampere.
The T239 is apparently a variant of the T234, and Nintendo are receiving a further modified version. T239 likely does run a modified A78C. The T234 is used almost exclusively in automotive infotainment systems. It (T239) supposedly is based off RTX-30 tech, the article(last link in above paragraph) rightly notes that that’s a bit suspect.
Below is a screenshot of the spec table(again from the final article linked) comparing the T234, T239, and RTX-2050. Link to said screenshot for people on instances where embedded media is broken.
This article I keep referencing notes that the hardware in the switch 2, if everything is actually accurate and not a bait-and-switch² (eh? eh? 🤓), would be considered behind the curve…for when the Steam Deck released!
I know we were talking about emulated NS1 games on the NS2…but I fell down a fucking rabbit hole and wanted to drag everyone down with me.
So, compatibility layer minimum for playing NS1 games…might actually be a fiction?
This is the A57(NS1 CPU) spec write-up on wiki.
And the A78 again.
Below is the spec tables from both wiki pages.
There’s differences, obviously, but…not insanely so?
Nintendo for reasons completely lost to me refuses to allow that.
Because consoles are a net loss in terms of R&D, production, shipping, warranty claims for when they almost always fucked something on the first or second version, etc etc etc. Locking people into the platform means you make all your money on game sales, even 3rd party, indie, and asset flip shovelware makes Nintendo money. It’s the “Walled Garden” method, Apple is shit hot at this. They make an everloving fuck tonne of money from their app store. Even free apps have to pay to have the app hosted on the store servers, and in app purchases are subject to a percentage cut for Apple.
The fact that having digital backups of games/music/media you have purchased is perfectly legal in more than a couple countries, as is emulating, is a thorn in these sociopathic cancers of megacorpic greed’s paw. That’s why Ubisoft is pushing for widespread legal acknowledgement of “game purchases are actually just paying to be granted a revokable for any reason or no reason at all licence.” That’s (partly) why Nintendo is so very aggressive in their litigation of anyone who attempts to make a highly functioning emulator for one of their systems, often with games running better with higher resolution and more options for QoL things. Because instead of trying to sell to as many different systems as possible, they want literally all the money, and they refuse the idea that the little money sacks who buy their shit might actually be legally allowed to run back up copies of their purchases on hardware that wasn’t sold by them. Refuse the idea that the money sacks have rights or deserve to pay for something and actually own it.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
I haven’t been interested in any self-proclaimed AAA games for ages anyway. And my 5+ year “out of date” hardware is still handling nearly everything I ask it to anyway.
Personal opinion warning:
Last actual AAA game released in my mind is BG3, and my hardware runs it 60fps medium settings with absolutely no issues.
Any Mega-Dev monopoly that claims to be AAA can suck my left nut and settle for a more realistic C-. And that won’t change in my mind until such time as the start making games as art again, for people to enjoy, instead of an effort to wring every penny pence or yen from everyone they possibly can…
The expectation of infinite growth is a fucking cancer.
Some people automatically assume building a PC means you need to buy brand new everything, but if you were smart about it you
couldused to be able to get it down to the same price as a brand new console.
I’ve not upgraded my desktop since spring 2020, my mobo, gratuitous amount of RAM, everything is still ticking away taking everything I tell it to. Only thing I even want to upgrade is my gfx card. And that’s already more than an entry level console. Even the used market is completely tits up. Just a quick look at eBay, 4060/70/80/90, starting average £650ish for a 60 and a used 90 FE is £1700…free shipping though! I’ve decided to let Intel cook on their gfx cards a bit longer, and I’ll probably getting one off them when I eventually upgrade…I can grab a used a770 or b570 for under £250 today.
Like I said in a different comment.
My last build ran me just over $500 Canadian, the gfx card was the most expensive piece, and I reused my case, cooling system, storage and power supply…but last gen gfx, mobo and a gratuitous amount of RAM was to be had for cheap enough to not have to save at all to buy it.
Pre-pandemic I was able to build a pc with part 1 generation behind current, including the case and a reasonable cooling system (air) for $500 Canadian. Now you can’t even get a modern graphics card for that much. So no, this is definitely a recent thing.
I built my current desktop at the start of the pandemic, the 20xx series was being bought by more people, the most expensive part was the 1060 I bought second hand for $200. It still came to just over $500 with all the parts. Yes I reused my case, cooling system, storage and power supply.
The developer, Bit Reactor, has some of the minds behind XCOM, Civilization, Gears of War, Elder Scrolls Online, and more.
Which Gears though? And which Civ for that matter!
I play tested the Gears tactical game, it was good for the state it was in when I had a shot. However! It was super obvious that there was going to be heavy lootbox mechanics implemented, and I’m worried that this will end up being just a MTX money wringer…
Being a passion project, I’m confident Skyblivion will be better optimised, with no sepia brownout tint to everything, fewer bugs etc etc etc… I’m convinced that a few years ago Bethesda saw Skyblivion was starting to generate excitement, and figured they’d slap something together to take advantage of it. No use leaving money on the table right?
Last time I posted this pet theory a few folk said Bethesda are using this as a way to test out UE5, work out any kinks for TES-VI. UE5 is notorious for having features the “streamline” a lot of things for devs. I say notorious because these streamlining features often result in poorly optimised bombscare games. Bethesda doesn’t need help making a broken mess of a game.
Skyblivion has been cooking since “2012”, there’s no chance this project, staffed by fans, made for fans, as an homage to a beloved entry in the TES series…no chance it’s going to be half-baked… Skyrim has seven unique releases across nine different platforms. And it’s still bugged to fuck…
Thanks for reading my rant, disjointed as it was…
I like the idea of GMOs, being able to engineer plants to survive in harsher conditions and have a greater yield.
Unfortunately, they also like to engineer them to not produce viable seed. Roundup Ready canola/rapeseed can only be reseeded once, if I remember correctly, forcing farmers to purchase more seed to keep farming. And if there’s cross-pollination in a neighbouring farm, Monsanto likes to sue the neighbour for illegally planting their crops, despite it being the result of plants doing plant stuff.
Yes, Hasbro wants to make another Baldur’s Gate game that continues to “raise the bar” without Larian
Pfffffff… Hasbro has a great reputation for being greedy as fuck, and completely deaf blind and dumb to what fans love and enjoy about established IPs. So I’m sure whatever travesty they release will be just great 👍
That’s nice…wonder how much the growing excitement for the Skyblivion project and the progress they’ve been making influenced Bethesda’s decision to remaster Oblivion. My guess is that they caught wind a while back, saw people were interested, and decided that there’s enough interest to churn out a “quick” remaster, try and beat Skyblivion to completion, and milk the cash cow dry.
It’ll almost certainly be a muddy sepia, soulless, bugged to all fuck travesty. Hope the Skyblivion team is able/allowed to complete the project. I’d be super angry if they were sent a cease and desist…
Like the article in this post! Apparently Valve updating a game’s deck compatibility rating is “VaLvE hAs SeCrEt AgENdA!”
It’s worth noting that it was the cable that suffered unambiguous damage here, not the graphics card or even, seemingly, the power connector or socket.
This says to me, a dumbfuck stone mason with limited electrics experience, it’s possibly an issue with the cable. Though the issue with the cable may never have presented itself if it weren’t for how Nvidia, apparently, routes all 12v lines into a single line on the board.
Another great example of hype-train beastmode is No Man’s Sky. By the time it came out people were talking about it like they’d be plugged into the matrix. That’s the last time I let myself be carried away even slightly by hype. I was super pessimistic about NMS compared to what my friends and people online were expecting. I was still grossly disappointed.
By the time CP77 was getting ready to release I figured it would be a bare bones looter shooter, bugged to all fuck, with a story duct taped to it’s carcass. Essentially DOA. So I was actually pleasantly surprised when it was a quite fleshed out FPS RPGish shooter with the storyline woven solidly through. Still bugged to all fuck though.
Wasn’t intentionally spreading misinformation. Classic games, as you said, are cheaper. However switch 1 games are still $80. And my point about legally being able to emulate them stands.
I’ll retract my statements on the cost of legacy games here and go back through my previous comments and change them to reflect this.
You think they’re going to sell repackaged SNES and N64 games for less than that?(Edit: incorrect, they are in fact less than $80) How bout switch 1 games? Those are “modern” so significantly cheaper, still legal to have a backup, still legal to emulate…and will be run in an emulator on the switch 2, no native backwards compatibility.
As for switch 2 games…just waiting for a while getting them 2nd hand means they’ll be cheaper, if you can actually get a hardcopy, and all the things I just said still apply…
Sure, but it wouldn’t be $80 for most of them. (Edit: classic games on the Nintendo store are not $80, statement retracted. The general sentiment stands.)
Game deals is in New Westminster. Not necessarily great prices, but you can get Super Mario Cart for $60. And that’s a proper reseller, definitely get a better deal for a loose cart online…it doesn’t even have to be working. Get a better deal on one that isn’t functional, physical media degradation is one of the reasons why you’re able to keep digital copies.
In the case of them rereleasing old games without doing a remaster, in Canada at least, it is legal to have a digital back up for any game you own, and running it in an emulator is legal.
(Edit: I’m implying here that classic games are $80 on the Nintendo store, they are not. Still legal to have digital backups of modern games, still legal to emulate them as long as you own a physical copy.)
PC is a walled garden too
Somewhat disagree. Sure there’s stuff that won’t run on Linux but runs on Mac or win…but the list is getting shorter all the time. And then there’s the wonderful world of emulation, you can add a plethora of walled gardens to your garden with a knee high wall and lots of gates.
Yeah, got the cheapest package around the same time. Hop on every few years to see what they been doing, see if my PC has been spec’d out of playing. Think I paid $25-30 Canadian? I’ve put more time into it than a couple other games I’ve spent the same or more on, and I stepped off the hype train. Sad, in a way, that it seems like it’s just going to carry on the way it’s going forever. It was a cool vision, but they’re just printing money so I doubt it will ever come to much more than what it is.
I’m sure they’d get it if it was something that they cared about. Most of us just can’t fully equate what matters to other folk to stuff that matters to us. Was just channel surfing the other week, stopped randomly. Was a kid, he got a lot of attention on YouTube for getting super emotional while train spotting. Now he’s a presenter for the BBC. In the segment I watched he was in Malaysia. A rare engine went by with freight, and the guy was vibrating, tearing up, and all the hair on his arms was standing up.
I look at that, and I just don’t get it, to me it’s just a train. You could clearly see, it was one of the greatest moments of his life. While the situation didn’t spark the same reaction in me, I can absolutely understand the feeling. And I think that a lot of folk just don’t take the time to try and understand.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t seem to understand just how valuable our retro game collection can be.
The monetary values were what convinced her…but
A lot of people think it’s just about holding onto the past, but it’s more than that. Not to mention the fact that the games you really loved for the consoles you really loved can hold very deep sentimental value that you shouldn’t be forced to give up.
I couldn’t give a fuck about the money. Some of those consoles were gifts from now long dead relatives. Some of the games I have memories of playing with friends who passed away, or we drifted apart. That collection is like a story, every game in it has held a special place in my life. Be it having a session with my younger siblings on a week night, trying to be super quiet because dad told us to go to sleep 2 hours ago. Or trying to beat Masa and Mune in chrono trigger with Brandon every day after school, handing the controller back and forth. Or having our little minds blown that we had to physically switch the controller to beat Psycho Mantis.
It’s a huge part of who I am, and when I said I would rather stay in Canada than ditch my collection? It hurts that she only understood when she found out what it was “worth.”
We’ve had long chats about it since, and she gets it now. Took a while though…
Yeah… that’s… depressingly accurate for the way things are going.