Gaming Nintendo Switch

From a hardware perspective will the switch be capable of running the PS4 exclusives if they were willing to collaborate?
 
syrian_scholes said:
Heard that it might be something like pokemon dungeon and stuff as in it won't be a main series game.
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No, the 3DS guys are moving over too, so there will be main Pokemon games on this. It's been too long too, the Colosseum games on the GCN were criminally underrated.


Wednesday at Stoke said:
From a hardware perspective will the switch be capable of running the PS4 exclusives if they were willing to collaborate?
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It depends. From a purely hardware perspective pushed to the limits, the Xbone couldn't run them nor could the PS4 run PS4pro exclusives properly.

However, everything can be scaled. If you are asking if the switch is as powerful as the PS4, then of course it's not. There's no reason it couldn't run any of the games though. The bigger factor is that no one shares exclusives, otherwise they wouldn't be exclusive (bar the time limited ones of course).


For a hybrid console, it's pretty great though and will run full on AAA titles. Zelda is beautiful, and Mario Kart runs seriously well even in 4-player split screen, far better than the Wii-U which was slightly above the 360/PS3 level. Unreal engine, Frostbite and all the other major graphics engines run fine on it too.
 
Redlambs said:
No, the 3DS guys are moving over too, so there will be main Pokemon games on this. It's been too long too, the Colosseum games on the GCN were criminally underrated.




It depends. From a purely hardware perspective pushed to the limits, the Xbone couldn't run them nor could the PS4 run PS4pro exclusives properly.

However, everything can be scaled. If you are asking if the switch is as powerful as the PS4, then of course it's not. There's no reason it couldn't run any of the games though. The bigger factor is that no one shares exclusives, otherwise they wouldn't be exclusive (bar the time limited ones of course).


For a hybrid console, it's pretty great though and will run full on AAA titles. Zelda is beautiful, and Mario Kart runs seriously well even in 4-player split screen, far better than the Wii-U which was slightly above the 360/PS3 level. Unreal engine, Frostbite and all the other major graphics engines run fine on it too.
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I should have been more clear, I was saying more about if titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 could be offered on switch.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
I left my PS4 back home when I moved to Denmark and succumbing to my spot purchasing weakness I went to the store to buy this but they were out of stock. Nintendo is crazy with how limited they keep the supplies.
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I checked last week and it seemed like a couple of the online stores still have it in stock. Welcome to Copenhagen by the way. :)
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
I should have been more clear, I was saying more about if titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 could be offered on switch.
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Fair enough mate, and yes they can. It's a full on console.

Hopefully with the sales through the roof, the big guys won't make the mistake they did with the Wii and think it's not something they can profit doing. Plus, one huge benefit this thing has over the Wii/Wii-U, is it's closer than ever to the higher spec'd machines to work with in terms of how the api works, so there's no excuses not to just scale slightly back. In fact the recent Lego City and Snake Pass games show how easy it is to do and still get close to the PS4.
 
Maagge said:
I checked last week and it seemed like a couple of the online stores still have it in stock. Welcome to Copenhagen by the way. :)
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Thank you, I checked El Giganten and Komplett before checking pricerunner and all of them have a restock date of May 17th.
 
BTW Nintendo don't deliberately keep supplies low, their machines are just often packed with tech that takes longer to mass produce. It's easy to bang out PS4 and Xbones when they are basically the same components.

Their biggest mistake was not releasing it a month or two later and ramping up production, however they had more than enough to meet the predicted sales demands, it just so happens this thing has really caught on even more than any analyst realised it would. Which for us gamers, can only be a good thing in the long run.


It's also why the Nes mini has ceased for now, and the Snes Mini is on hold.
 
Redlambs said:
Fair enough mate, and yes they can. It's a full on console.

Hopefully with the sales through the roof, the big guys won't make the mistake they did with the Wii and think it's not something they can profit doing. Plus, one huge benefit this thing has over the Wii/Wii-U, is it's closer than ever to the higher spec'd machines to work with in terms of how the api works, so there's no excuses not to just scale slightly back. In fact the recent Lego City and Snake Pass games show how easy it is to do and still get close to the PS4.
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Yeah hope the switch can attract cross platform releases. It would ace to be able to play some of those games on handheld.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Yeah hope the switch can attract cross platform releases. It would ace to be able to play some of those games on handheld.
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I know people have taken notice now, more so than ever with the Wii or Wii-U. The big guys are looking, it's only EA being their usual dick selves because Nintendo still won't go with Origin and all that.

Fingers firmly crossed, as it's finally a machine that is both different and serves a need. It's what the Wii-U should have been.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Thank you, I checked El Giganten and Komplett before checking pricerunner and all of them have a restock date of May 17th.
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Ah okay, I just looked at Pricerunner. Might have been a case of a couple of shops having one or two left which are gone now.
 
Bought NBA Playgrounds which released last night. There is not that much content at the moment, online will only be switched on in a week and the graphics are not perfect but stilll for an NBA fan it's a no-brainer purchase. Plenty of fun, the mechanics are good, offline multiplayer looks fantastic at the first glance.
 
Sarni said:
Bought NBA Playgrounds which released last night. There is not that much content at the moment, online will only be switched on in a week and the graphics are not perfect but stilll for an NBA fan it's a no-brainer purchase. Plenty of fun, the mechanics are good, offline multiplayer looks fantastic at the first glance.
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I bought that yesterday and thought it was a bit shite tbh. But again I've only been playing it by myself.

Excited that NBA 2k18 is coming to the switch though :drool:
 
Kaos said:
I bought that yesterday and thought it was a bit shite tbh. But again I've only been playing it by myself.

Excited that NBA 2k18 is coming to the switch though :drool:
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Me too! Shame they did not release 2K17 at launch at it was initially expected because it would have added another 6 months of portable NBA but I guess possible gain from that would have been too small for 2K Games to care about.

Just hope it's going to be a full game with the same mechanics, even if the graphics are significantly worse, and not some inferior spin-off released two months later than the main game.
 
Sarni said:
Me too! Shame they did not release 2K17 at launch at it was initially expected because it would have added another 6 months of portable NBA but I guess possible gain from that would have been too small for 2K Games to care about.

Just hope it's going to be a full game with the same mechanics, even if the graphics are significantly worse, and not some inferior spin-off released two months later than the main game.
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Man if we got a portable full featured version of nba 2k I'd get nothing done in my life for a solid 6 months :lol:
 
Kaos said:
Man if we got a portable full featured version of nba 2k I'd get nothing done in my life for a solid 6 months :lol:
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I'm the same way! I keep playing this game all the time even on a home console, if I could just take this with me to work, on a train and everywhere else, I'm gone :lol:
 
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Anybody been playing the Arms beta? I fecking love it.

I'm not a big fan of the motion controls but it's ace with either the pro controller or in handheld mode.
 
I saw that it was like £20 a year, which is fine by me for access to classic games.

I think it's just NES games at first though, which explains the decision behind pulling the NES mini when they did.
 
Woodzy said:
I saw that it was like £20 a year, which is fine by me for access to classic games.

I think it's just NES games at first though, which explains the decision behind pulling the NES mini when they did.
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Was reading that it's not the complete Virtual console offering, another thing.
 
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