I’ve seen a lot of people discussing about the possible Switch 2’s power in a very uninformed way that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
First, we are all speculating here, but if we are going to speculate, let’s look at credible rumours and analyse the whole thing, and not cherry pick the information that fits your Nintendo flaming narrative.
The most credible rumour is the NVIDIA leak from 2022 confirmed by the company to be legit. These are the specs for the Nintendo hardware found there:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/03/switch-pro-trends-on-social-media-after-massive-nvidia-leak-reignites-speculation
-T239 chip
-ARM Cortex-A78C (8 core)
-15360 CUDA cores
-DLSS (3.1 according to newer rumours)
-Ray Tracing
– (According to new rumours also 16 GB of RAM)
We don’t know if this hardware is the Switch 2, but it is likely that it is, and many sources have leaked information that corroborate this.
While this and many other rumours points towards a base power of a PS4, people seem to forget the DLSS part that is key to this discussion, a lot of people seem to still not understand what DLSS is. DLSS is the most advanced upscaler in the industry, it’s far better than anything on PlayStation or Xbox. So with DLSS, games will be able to run at a lower internal resolution than on those consoles, but come to an end product that will be comparable to next-gen games at some capacit, it most likely will have 4K DLSS in docked mode, and most people won’tbe able to tell it’s not native 4K.
The quality of the DLSS implementation will depend on the specific games and on the exact hardware specs, but at the end of the day, games will most likely look and run far better than a base PS4, people should think more of something equivalent to a PS4 Pro, which is about about same power as the Series S.
It will allow many more third party ports of current gen games than we saw with the Switch, probably most third party games even.
Nintendo will probably do amazing things with this technology, and either way, Nintendo stands on it’s own, they are not dependent on third parties like PlayStation and Xbox, so even if the DLSS implementations are a total failure, Nintendo will still be more than fine.
by Impressive-Flamingo5