Switch 2: Studio has supposedly received the development kit - eviltoast
The same person who leaked the existence of Metroid Dread assures that a Spanish developer has received the development kit for the successor to Nintendo S...

The same person who leaked the existence of Metroid Dread assures that a Spanish developer has received the development kit for the successor to Nintendo Switch.

  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Judging from the leaks, it sounds like Nintendo is taking an approach to make it more competitive to the Steam Deck, but not a jump forward in terms of computational power.

    • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      Compared to the X1 chip from 2015 the Switch uses, the Steam Deck is a pretty big jump in power

      • atocci@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s a huge improvement over the Switch. I’ve tried the same games on both platforms before, they always perform leagues better on the Deck.

      • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        That’s a real good point, I should have clarified that it’s not a jump compared to what’s currently available. It would be a massive upgrade for existing users if the software leverages capability, but it won’t be a portable handheld that’s going to be able to render contemporary scenes at 4k.

        • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I think Nintendo itself doesn’t need much more power than they’ve been using, but if they want to keep their 3rd party devs, the new system will have to be able to run Unreal engine 5 games in some sort of stripped down performance mode. Over half the new AA & AAA games currently in development all run on UE5