Nintendo Switch

[gone fishin]

18 minutes ago, Sabreman said:

If I launched a console based on the ZX Spectrum tomorrow Ubisoft would bring out Just Dance on it.

Wait, Just Dance has been announced for the Spectrum Next? (which is the most exciting new game system announcement).

 

here's a sneak preview of Just Dance 2017 on the Spectrum Next

 

 

 

 

[mushashi]

On 15/06/2016 at 11:01 AM, moora said:

Interestingly, the GameCube and Wii U launched with a shit load of third party titles.... I guess people really do buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games...  (No shit, Sherlock!)

 

 

So did the Wii, so what does that tell you? There was even much mocking over how CoD was selling better on the Wii than the PS3 at the time...

[Nespresso]

 

So reading between the lines, Breath of the Wild NX is not going to look a whole lot different from the Wii U version. Called it! 

[RubberJohnny]

I mean he's right, they don't need them, but I always think, "what about the third parties?"

[BruceBruce]

8 minutes ago, RubberJohnny said:

I mean he's right, they don't need them, but I always think, "what about the third parties?"

 

Actually if Sony and Microsoft are mandating compatibility between their new and old systems, devs still have to make the games work with PS4 and XB1.  So if the NX matches at least the performance of the original PS4 and XB1, they may have a decent chance at third party for the next few years.

[Hitcher]

2 hours ago, VN1X said:

 

So reading between the lines, Breath of the Wild NX is not going to look a whole lot different from the Wii U version. Called it! 

AKA the NX is going to be under-powered.

[BruceBruce]

7 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

AKA the NX is going to be under-powered.

 

At least in comparison to the PS4 Neo and the XB1 Scorpio, it seems.

[Nespresso]

One would hope it's at least at XB1 levels of power. Surely even Nintendo can afford tech like that by now. 

[barkbat]

It's going to be a tablet. Nitendo's very own sheika slate. No media, download only. Optional docking station with added hardrive space and upscaler for TV play.

[revlob]

It's going to be a courgette. In a shoebox.

[BBBBBB]

I heard the NX will have this graphical feature, very important to Nintendo. It lets the new Zelda render that bit in the game where you jump on your shield, slide down a grassy hill and go WHOOO!

 

It's called 'Enough power to render nice looking characters with nice animation, doing cool stuff with things to other nicely animated characters in a big colourful environmnt with nice grass at a resolution that looks nice on your HDTV. All while looking quite a bit better than it would have on the older WiiU.'

[Hylian]

27 minutes ago, revlob said:

It's going to be a courgette. In a shoebox.

Day 1.

[gone fishin]

6 hours ago, mushashi said:

 

So did the Wii, so what does that tell you? There was even much mocking over how CoD was selling better on the Wii than the PS3 at the time...

 

Yeah but everyone initially bought a Wii for Wii Sports... it was an absolute system seller. 

[Hylian]

4 hours ago, VN1X said:

 

So reading between the lines, Breath of the Wild NX is not going to look a whole lot different from the Wii U version. Called it! 

I think that's massively reading between the lines. From what I've seen of the treehouse stuff, there's noticeable framerate drops in the Zelda demo. I wouldn't be surprised if it's being built for the higher spec machine and will be poorer performance on Wii u. Does that fit with the TP experience on GameCube?

[Liamness]

3 hours ago, kernow said:

Wonder if it's ppc based then. Can't see them porting it to x86 that quickly. 

 

Although it's very possible to write code in a high level language like C, C++ or Rust in a way that performs better using one type of CPU compared to another, the added compute power should make such optimisations unnecessary. They'll just work with the existing code, but have two compile targets. Also, x86 is really the only game in town with regards to desktop-class computing these days, all the consoles moved over this gen, would be very surprised if they buck the trend.

[Sarlaccfood]

59 minutes ago, Hylian said:

I think that's massively reading between the lines. From what I've seen of the treehouse stuff, there's noticeable framerate drops in the Zelda demo. I wouldn't be surprised if it's being built for the higher spec machine and will be poorer performance on Wii u. Does that fit with the TP experience on GameCube?

 

No.

 

Not that I can remember anyway.

[Dig Dug]

Twilight Princess on Gamecube was considered the superior version at the time, all the wii version had over it was widescreen.

[Super Craig]

And better controls.

[Graham S]

[revlob]

 

I can't decide whether that's a look of utter contempt, or Reggie's just trying to work out whether he could draw a cock and balls on it without anyone noticing. 

[Not Thread Owner]

Spoiler

 

 

What is it?

[JPickford]

8 hours ago, Dig Dug said:

Twilight Princess on Gamecube was considered the superior version at the time, all the wii version had over it was widescreen.

 

By whom?  How was it superior?

[the_debaser]

The camera system was better on the GameCube. Everything else which differed was better on the wii though. 

[jonathanhoey]

Purists preferred the Gamecube version, in which Link was left-handed, to the Wii version, which was mirrored.

 

The change was so that players could wield the sword with the Wiimote in their right hand.

[Barny]

And some folks claimed it was a better fit to 4:3 presumably because it was designed for the GC first. Don't know about now but for quite a while the GameCube version was kind of rare and expensive.  

[BarryL85]

4 minutes ago, Barny said:

Don't know about now but for quite a while the GameCube version was kind of rare and expensive.  

 

Still the same if not even more expensive, have seen them going for £60-70 but they don't seem rare, loads for sale on ebay. 

[Barny]

Crikey that's a lot of money.

[Jarik]

Is the NX at all likely to be a modified version of Wii U tech?  That would ensure BC & (hopefully) make it cheaper, but perhaps Nintendo is going to follow Sony & Microsoft's example with the PS4 & Xbox One of ditching propriety hardware/development environments & moving to a platform that's closer to PC, ensuring ease of development & future BC at the cost of losing previous system BC (And the associated game libraries) for now & making the machine cost more.

 

Though i'm sure that if it is the case that BC is being ditched for the NX, Nintendo could accommodate themselves to the quite revolutionary idea of porting their back catalog to the system & selling it to us all over again.  I mean, the NES version of Super Mario Bros is worth a few quid of anyone's money, right?

[robdood]

9 hours ago, Dig Dug said:

Twilight Princess on Gamecube was considered the superior version at the time, all the wii version had over it was widescreen.

Given the context of discussion, it seems youre implying that technically / graphically that the GC version was superior. But they were identical, I thought? (given other replies, I'm not the only one who thinks that)..

 

Id say the dropped frames are more indicative of a game that still has a good 9 months in the oven.. 

[Alex W.]

34 minutes ago, Jarik said:

Is the NX at all likely to be a modified version of Wii U tech?

 

I think it's terribly unlikely. The WiiU is heavily derived from the Wii's processor, meaning it's propping up a processor design that goes back to about 2004. Since then, PowerPC has died and the POWER architecture has become almost exclusively used in servers and HPC systems, so Nintendo probably couldn't get IBM to design them a new kind of PowerPC chip for any price. That leaves them the choice of continuing to upgrade an ancient chip, or abandoning PowerPC.