If the 4K does rely on DLSS as rumored, then I think they would need to add Nvidia’s Tenser cores, or whatever they’re called, the ones that do the DLSS calculations.
He means the 2019 refresh, better battery life.
You guys are delusionnal if you think Nintendo will sell a hardware over 200 bucks that cost more than 20 to produce
Also the Switch can’t play games at 1080p properly the vast majority of the time (usually, handheld mode offers the best performance) and you’re talking 4K!
DLSS tech is pretty good, can upscale 720p to 4k at reasonable quality. It’s the big rumour that was floating around, that the new Nvidia chip they’re using includes the tensor cores specifically for that purpose.
The difficult thing with that tech as it stands today though, is that the software needs to support it. So not great for back compatibility unless they’ve got something new going on.
Now that sounds more like Nintendo :)
Thank you for the explanation.
Yeah, they should be aiming for consistent 1080p in handheld and improved battery life.
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Probably unnecessary, because by all reports the new screen will still be 720p.
That’s an upgrade, the current one is 528p or some other random crap.
Then I really don’t understand the better performances in a variety of games in handheld versus docked XD
Not by default, here there was an option to output up to 1080p, but given even 720p is slow here in docked, not gonna tempt the devil.
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Some games render below native resolution to improve performance. And the resolution is pushed lower when handheld, because the small screen hides artifacts. That accounts for improved handheld framerates in some cases.
Oh that’s very interesting. I did notice that in docked mode (things going blurry in some games), but I never noticed it in handheld, probably of course because the screen is smaller (and my eyes are not getting younger).
I just checked and I noticed there is now a 480p option in the display settings in docked mode (with black borders, so 4:3 I am guessing?)
What a strange console.
According to a recent leak, SMT V’s apparently still on track for this year.
I’m a bit disappointed the setting isn’t a postapocalyptic one (probably), but at least we got plenty of esoterical references to Shinto and Kabbalah stuff right from the tentative store page!
I found back the guy who keeps announcing the Switch Pro every year:
It’s still him, this year, apparently: he just had switched from Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg ;D
And he’s angry at Nintendo for not doing the reveal party for his favourite fake hardware before E3, like he announced.
Ah, experts truly are legends.
All right so, I could probably use some advice. My son had a birthday recently and has a bit of money and he’s interested in buying a Switch. So I understand that currently there are two models, just a regular old Switch that can also display on a TV, and a Switch Lite that does not, is handheld only. I also see various rumors that I’ve paid very little attention to that yet another version is coming. I figure I don’t really need to concern myself with this new, higher res(?) model but I am also kind of wondering if this new model might also result in a price reduction for the existing models, should I wait to buy one of those?
They’re both still in very high demand and quite cheap already, so a big discount is unlikely, but I could see a new bundle being a thing at least. With E3 a week away it can’t hurt to wait and see if all the rumor prognosticators were wrong yet again, at least :-)
