I'm confused. A bigger screen Switch is the last thing you want but then you say that a screenless system is the last thing you want.
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I'm confused. A bigger screen Switch is the last thing you want but then you say that a screenless system is the last thing you want.
C'mon now. Who holds theirs phones 16 inches away from their face?
720p is fine for a midgen refresh when most of the games are going to render around 720p in handheld anyways, but no need for these dumb analogies.
Can someone explain to me how they're going to stuff sufficient tensor cores in there to do DLSS? Sounds like an absolute pipe dream.
Made a rough concept on how bezels would look like with a 7 inch screen. Definitely a lot more screen real estate here.
Nice! Day one for sure!
Nintendo fix the Joycons!!!
If it was just a screen size upgrade you would not need a new dev kit, console clearly has some upgrades spec wise
720p is naturally going to get a lot of blowback here, but I'll bet public perception is more like 'oh wow, the colors look great!'
Interested in price, I'm sure it will sell well considering the popularity of the system.
Interested in price, I'm sure it will sell well considering the popularity of the system.
The screen+bezel is exactly 7" on the OG Switch, so this is perfect from a form factor and joy-con compatibility perspective.
Games actually running at native res handheld will look so sick too.
Games actually running at native res handheld will look so sick too.
I play exclusively in handheld mode, will be buying this day one just for the performance increases if true. I wonder what the cost is though? Still $299?
the theoretical minimum for DLSS to work might be around 4SM, which is the same number of FP32 units as the regular switch, plus another 256 fp32 units. and Ampere SM comes with 2 tensor cores that are twice as powerful as 2 Turing SM
straight into my veins.
Phones have been suffering from excessively high resolutions for years, 720p does not bother me that much at all. Especially if it means maintaining higher and/or more solid frame rates.
Phones have been suffering from excessively high resolutions for years, 720p does not bother me that much at all. Especially if it means maintaining higher and/or more solid frame rates.
OLED efficiency varies based on brightness and content heavily. So yes an all black screen is using basically nothing, however an all white screen typically uses much more power than an all white LED of equivalent brightness. The peak brightness of OLEDs is usually lower than equivalently priced LED TVs, it's the improved contrast that gives it it's edge.
Dude is talking about holding his system out at arm's length. lol
The only time I ever use my Switch undocked is laying in bed and it is literally like 8 inches from my face. Otherwise, I'll just play on the TV.
Honest question: does the resolution disparity matter at all even now? People seem to not really care about anything other than the switching itself, so I don't think there being any potentially larger gap between the display modes even registers, especially if the handheld screen winds up being HDR-enabled, which makes a much more convincing argument than resolution does.
What's he been wrong about over "his years of reporting" to warrant such comments? To my mind, he's one of the most reliable reporters in the industry.
And for those keeping score, this isn't his first article about a 4K Switch either.
I would be extremely surprised if you could consistently correctly label a 1080p 6.2-inch screen and a 720p 6.2-inch screen during gameplay in A/B testing, much less that you could detect a difference if you weren't told there was a difference or what to look for.
Everyone complaining about handheld resolution, meanwhile I'm not bothered at all since I use the Switch on the Dock 100% of the time
Absolutely not. As I said before, the only time I use it undocked is when laying in bed. It's propped up directly in front of my face. Otherwise, I'd just play it on my TV.
I personally think 720p is great when games actually hit that resolution, and I assume more titles will actually hit it with this new hardware.
That said, he's not doing himself any favors with the 16" take. When I'm playing RPGs like Bravely, FE3H, Triangle Strategy etc with lots of text, I'm holding it quite a bit closer than 16"
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Glad somebody else said it.
Really?
Because my thinking is that it's pretty crappy if Mario Kart 8 Deluxe looks pretty much exactly the same handheld(actually marginally worse due to increase screen size) whilst having a massive upgrade on TVs. Seems way lopsided in favour of the home experience.
Shrugs. Maybe Tensor cores are disabled in portable mode because of power consumption or you can do like 480p to 720p DLSS.
Gonna be $399 easily. Maybe $349 if they decide to drop the current switch to $249, but with the way it's selling why would they?
I'm really wondering if the tensor cores are going to be in the dock. I have to say, I'll be disappointed if the cost of adding tensor cores to the system means that the rest of the tech (CPU, GPU, Memory, etc...) do not see a bump.
I want to see a picture of you playing your Switch with it 8 inches away from your face. I 100% do not believe that.
it required a bespoke game specific solutions for 4k. Not many games ran at that resolution.
With DLSS being integrated int UE4 and growth in acceptance of DLSS on PC games, almost any dev can hit that with DLSS. Completely different situaiton
Basides even if not all games hit that, DLSS will improve image quality a great deal. I'd think 2K/60 demanding games would be quite common with DLSS support. 4k/60 for games that really push for it.
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