03-03-2024, 01:38 PM
(03-02-2024, 02:28 AM)Potato wrote: Yeah, "tech" guys on Twatter are usually wrong.
There is basically two camps right now
- 1. The Switch 2 uses the 'outdated' T239 in a 8GB or 16GB setup at $349 - $399 that they originally wanted to use for the Switch Pro (OLED + Spec bump). The hardware includes tensor cores(RT/DLSS 2.0) but the DLA has been removed to keep costs down (i.e. DLSS will require CPU power).
- 2. The Switch 2 hardware has been upgraded during development either with a custom Nvidia part or a Samsung Exynos. which is why devkits are in short supply and the launch is delayed to 2025. The price sits somewhere between the $399 - $499 range.
I think Nintendo will launch something that performs close to the Xbox Series S at lower resolutions but with DLSS support and they will also fix the mistake that MS made with the RAM because a lack of useable RAM is killing UE5 games on the platform. So I'm going with a T239 with a 12GB RAM setup. They know the PS5 / Series X line-up isn't that deep so pushing to $499 for a handful of ports isn't worth it when plenty of games are still being released on PS4 right now.
The success of the system depends mostly on how quickly they can release their first party games, if they can continue to grow franchises and how easy it is to bring over your original Switch library with framerates and resolution bumps.