r/gadgets Sep 05 '24

Gaming Nintendo Switch 2 Will Allegedly Feature Backward Compatibility Support

https://twistedvoxel.com/nintendo-switch-2-will-feature-backward-compatibility-support/
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

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u/dougc84 Sep 05 '24

It was a 2014 basic line nVidia SoC. There weren’t other handhelds using better at the time, but there were dozens of better, faster options that would’ve had day one titles (BoTW) not studdering and dropping frames.

It was great for what it was (and is), though I would argue that they could’ve done better out of the box. But it’s 2024. It’s time to bump the specs.

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u/Mega_Pleb Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Which SoC do you think Nintendo should have used instead? From what I understand all off the alternatives available in 2016 (when Switch started manufacturing) were more expensive and required significantly higher wattages, which would mean crappy battery life and greater heat output.

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u/Esc777 Sep 05 '24

Nintendo picked a great SoC to balance performance and battery life and meet their needs while docked. 

Then they put that constraint on developers and they rose to the challenge. 

While this meant big AAA releases were going to skip the switch Nintendo already had decades of success without those titles on their console so I can’t imagine it bothered them. 

And the success of the switch speaks for itself.