Nintendo Switch 2 PCB Leak Reveals an NVIDIA Tegra T239 Chip Optically Shrunk to 5nm

[AusWolf]

It's not just about Switch sales though that is important. It's quality and reputation. In Japan the PC is the garbage platform. It's for hentai games. Nintendo does not want to be associated with it all costs.

Quality is the most important. Nintendo maintains their quality standards on their IP by only releasing for one platform that they control. They know it and the dev kits inside and out. They don't have to spend time on other platforms and worry about crappy ports or releases. The PC is the worst platform for them to ever move to due to all the hardware requirements.

That's an interesting and extremely weird approach (just like Japan itself, I guess).

Emulation is theft. Flat out. There is no way to justify it. If you want to do it that's fine. I do it with stuff that isn't around anymore. But I don't lie that it isn't theft and it makes me a thief and if someone stopped me or sued me over it they would be in the right and I would be in the wrong. That the PC gaming community has earned a reputation of theft, cheating, and complaining about not being treated special along with the worst gamer toxicity out there makes me sad. But it is entirely true, was earned over decades, and has gotten much worse.

Eh... what? Indie titles, holiday discounts and massive giveaways would like to have a word.

Pirating of AAA titles is a very tiny fragment of what PC gaming truly is. If it wasn't, no one would bother making PC games anymore and the whole industry would be long dead.

 

[GoldenTiger]

Can't wait! I skipped the original switch, so I'm looking forward to getting a switch 2 with a bunch of switch and switch 2 games thanks to its backwards compatibility! I love Nintendo stuff but the wii u I had kept me nice and busy while I played a lot of mmorpgs alongside it on my PC.

 

[chrcoluk]

Emulation is theft. Flat out. There is no way to justify it. If you want to do it that's fine. I do it with stuff that isn't around anymore. But I don't lie that it isn't theft and it makes me a thief and if someone stopped me or sued me over it they would be in the right and I would be in the wrong. That the PC gaming community has earned a reputation of theft, cheating, and complaining about not being treated special along with the worst gamer toxicity out there makes me sad. But it is entirely true, was earned over decades, and has gotten much worse.

It's not theft, as you not actually stealing anything, when you buy a game, you buying the right to play the game, you dont own the code. This applies digitally and physically. It is copyright infringement.

PC likely does have higher rates of infringement over native console, but switch's have been compromised, it does happen in console land as well. Typically the extra sales on PC I would expect to override any losses due to infringement. I think cheating is a "so what" in offline games, let people play it as they want.

As for Nintendo's reason I think they just in that mind trap where they wont tolerate any kind of free use of their content, so hence the crack down on emulation, and the first party hardware only rule for their games. It has benefits as when just concentrating on one platform the quality can be higher, as an example using unique abilities of the platform, not just performance optimisation.

But yeah I think you need to give PC a second thought, as modding and "cheating" are not necessarily bad things. Cheating for some people is the only way they can tolerate a game, maybe because the balance is wrong for them, they have limited time to play games, that sort of thing, they could also be disabled. Modding has proven to be very good for the gaming industry.

 

[AusWolf]

Can't wait! I skipped the original switch, so I'm looking forward to getting a switch 2 with a bunch of switch and switch 2 games thanks to its backwards compatibility! I love Nintendo stuff but the wii u I had kept me nice and busy while I played a lot of mmorpgs alongside it on my PC.

Good plan on skipping one to buy the other.

Personally, I'm just waiting for cheap Switch 1 consoles to flood the market.

 

[wNotyarD]

Good plan on skipping one to buy the other.

Personally, I'm just waiting for cheap Switch 1 consoles to flood the market.

I myself am looking into getting a Switch 2 so I gift my old Switch 1 to my brother