https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pr_V8rtzrE

A month ahead of Switch 2’s global release, we accidentally bought a real motherboard of Switch 2! We decided to reverse-engineer its NVIDIA SoC, and reveal the spces of its CPU and GPU, even head to a FIB-SEM to ensure its process node! We’d also simulate the performance on a similar PC to see how powerful is Switch 2. Stay tuned!

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    12 hours ago

    Around the same as the Steam Deck when portable, but with access to significantly better upscaling.

    Such a shame FSR looks so terrible, the Steam Deck would otherwise hold up much better against it.

    I’m still not going to buy one and only use my Deck though.

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      So there really is no excuse for the new Pokemon games to look so terrible.

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          As a !pokemon@lemm.ee fan I didn’t buy for these reasons but that doesn’t stop hordes of parents or certain fans from buying anyways. If they’re happy, I guess… meanwhile I’ll be fine as long as they don’t go after ROM hacks.

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    12 hours ago

    A bit of topic, but it pains me to see how powerful high end phones got. Like most people just use them to text and scroll social media. Why do people spend that much money?!

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      I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.

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      If anything, it makes me wonder why we don’t have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren’t phones or pseudocomputers and don’t cost a bomb.

      Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo

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        Because we already have phones.

        The solution is to release games for phones that require a controller, but most companies aren’t willing to be the first ones to do it.

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          I’m probably part of the problem. I’ve never used a controller except a few times at friends’ houses. I grew up with Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, and smartphone games. I don’t want to ever have to pick up a controller.

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        The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.

        A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.

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      10 hours ago

      Why do people spend that much money?!

      Conditioning. They have more money so they spend it proportionally.

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    12 hours ago

    People who buy a Switch 2 are not the same people who care about this stuff.

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    11 hours ago

    I love how my boy 750ti is in there. My first real gpu and my favorite because it was a time when NVIDIA was showing interest in getting the most bang out of lower power draw. That went out the window

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    Yuck, 1/4th the performance of a 3060?

    I already have a 3060 laptop lmao. You can buy a 4070 lenovo laptop at walmart for $1k.

    And nintendo wants to start charging $80 for games? On top of paying an extra subscription to use our own internet? Yeah, fuck that.

    Sail the high seas. Your wallet and your dignity will be better off for it.

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    11 hours ago

    Obligatory fuck Nintendo, and shane anyone buying their stuff anymore.