Nintendo Switch

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

But no cod.

[Not Thread Owner]

4 hours ago, Alex W. said:

So:

 

Undocked, it's as powerful as the WiiU, but only needs to drive half the pixels,

 

But it's 720p, not 540p. It's the same number of pixels.

[rgraves]

10 hours ago, rgraves said:

OK - so it turns out I've won a ticket to go and play Switch early via that Nintendo raffle thing  Except, as I said, I'm not even in the country on the dates available 

 

Would anyone on here, fancy taking my place - presume you would have to say you were me for the day etc

 

Drop me a PM if you do - Shrew need not apply, I don't want to spoil it for everyone else there that day as well 

These are both gone now folks - good luck to the two RLLMUK'ers that will get to experience the thrill of 2.34245 Wii U's taped together before the rest of us. Hope you enjoy it lads!

[bobontheway]

 
But it's 720p, not 540p. It's the same number of pixels.

720p is around 900,000 pixels whereas 1080p is just over 2,000,000 pixels.

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[Captain Kelsten]

4 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

What if the millions of chips are just for the controllers? 

 

[NEG]

This is called chippybags

[Nespresso]

Oh my god! This means tha- it doesn't actually mean anything lol we're talking about a Nintendo console here, specs don't mean shit. 

 

boom, rekt the internet. VN1X the internet rekker. 

[Not Thread Owner]

9 hours ago, bobontheway said:

 

720p is around 900,000 pixels whereas 1080p is just over 2,000,000 pixels.

Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
 

 

 

But 99% of Wii U games are 720p.

 

Fewer if you're playing on the gamepad!

[ridgeracer]

What happened to bits to describe a console? When did that no longer be a thing?

 

8 Bit

16 Bit

32 Bit

64 Bit 

128 Bit

 

Where are we at now? #bringbackthethruppence 

[Dudley]

The Xbox One and PS4 are 64-bit, the Wii U is 32-bit by that metric.

 

It ceased to be useful basically.

[Camel]

It became pointless when the Jaguar came out.  Despite Atari's claims, it was clearly a 2-bit machine.

[Darren]

So the Wii U is simultaneously 4 Gamecubes taped together AND an N64 sawn in half.

[Clipper]

to be fair using "bits" hasn't been relevant, applicable or useful for 20 years

 

a bit like Nintendo consoles .. badum-tish.

 

 

[Girth Certificate]

do all all the consoles have the same amount of colours? when did that stop being a thing?

[dataDave]

35 minutes ago, _Pow_ said:

do all all the consoles have the same amount of colours? when did that stop being a thing?

 

I imagine when the RGB scale peaked at 16.7mil.

[Made of Ghosts]

How many screens is Zelda going to have?

[matt0]

12 minutes ago, dataDave said:

 

I imagine when the RGB scale peaked at 16.7mil.

 

With the historic launch of the CD32.

 

Never forget (that shit TV ad). 

[smac]

1 hour ago, _Pow_ said:

do all all the consoles have the same amount of colours?

 

Yeah. Two.

 

Black or white. With some variation in shiny or matte.

 

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when did that stop being a thing?

 

Gamecube? Came in purple, orange, black...

[Not Thread Owner]

2 hours ago, Darren said:

So the Wii U is simultaneously 4 Gamecubes taped together AND an N64 sawn in half.

 

Standard Nintendo.

[Not Thread Owner]

1 hour ago, Made of Ghosts said:

How many screens is Zelda going to have?

 

Boards. They're called boards.

[angel]

1 hour ago, smac said:

 

Yeah. Two.

Black or white. With some variation in shiny or matte.

 

Gamecube? Came in purple, orange, black...

 

You're kidding right?

 

[smac]

Yeah, I know, I know - not the greatest wisecrack, ever.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

2 hours ago, dataDave said:

 

I imagine when the RGB scale peaked at 16.7mil.

It's all about 4K and HDR now.

[Girth Certificate]

does HDR have more colours, or is it just shades of colours?

[RubberJohnny]

What's the difference?

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

Well I've heard there are at least 50 shades of grey. Dunno how anyone managed to write a whole book about it though.

[Mr. Gerbik]

12 hours ago, VN1X said:

Oh my god! This means tha- it doesn't actually mean anything lol we're talking about a Nintendo console here, specs don't mean shit. 

 

boom, rekt the internet. VN1X the internet rekker. 

Dude, stop stretching the internet!

[pulsemyne]

Interesting piece of detective work done on neogaf as regards the unreal 4 engine. It's been updated with settings used in switch development

[Switch DeviceProfile]

+CVars=sg.ViewDistanceQuality=2

+CVars=sg.AntiAliasingQuality=2

+CVars=sg.ShadowQuality=2

+CVars=sg.PostProcessQuality=2

+CVars=sg.TextureQuality=2

+CVars=sg.EffectsQuality=2

+CVars=r.ScreenPercentage=100

 

[SwitchConsole DeviceProfile]

DeviceType=Switch BaseProfileName=Switch [SwitchHandheld DeviceProfile]

DeviceType=Switch BaseProfileName=Switch

+CVars=sg.ViewDistanceQuality=1

+CVars=sg.AntiAliasingQuality=1

+CVars=sg.ShadowQuality=1

+CVars=sg.PostProcessQuality=1

+CVars=sg.TextureQuality=1

+CVars=sg.EffectsQuality=1

+CVars=r.ScreenPercentage=66

 

So what does this tell us? Well under its default setting when docked the settings are a bit below the default settings used in current consoles. It can still run unreal 4 well but maybe not with as high settings as ps4/Xboxone.

Now the separate profile for the portable section tells us that the firstly the default resolution is 720 unlike the 1080 of the docked mode. Also all settings have been brought down a peg. The engine will still run fine and of course devs can alter the settings to their desire. One other interesting thing is that AA is on as default even in portable mode, it's just "Fast FXAA" as opposed to the proper "FXAA" in docked mode.

So things are pretty much as expected. Better quality of things when docked.

[Paulando]

All sounds good to me. Definitely don't need as many bells and whistles when it's on a 6" screen.

 

One thing I would like is analogue shoulder buttons - certain games are better with them, some games aren't possible without them, and Gamecube Virtual Console games will need them too.

[pulsemyne]

Just for the sake of being clear there are a few things to note. Firstly the portable mode is still full fat Unreal 4 and not Unreal 4 mobile which is what can be used in phones etc. There settings on Unreal 4 range from 0 (off) through to 4 (basically ultra).