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As my 6 year old makes his way through Fortnite Season 5, I'm impressed that his Switch still handles his no-scope sniper odyssey on these 8 year old Tegra X1s.
by tiahura 3y ago
As my 6 year old makes his way through Fortnite Season 5, I'm impressed that his Switch still handles his no-scope sniper odyssey on these 8 year old Tegra X1s.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoIt's impressive, but it's also somewhat amazing to consider that the Tegra X1 is still about 3.5-4x as powerful as the GPU in the Raspberry Pi 5 - even if any iPhone chip since the A11 Bionic would beat the X1.
- MBCook 3y agoWe’ll never see it, but I’ve wondered what a Switch would look like with an Apple chip. Take something relatively modern but no longer too expensive, say an A15 like the Apple TV has, bump the screen to 1080p, and I bet it would scream. Possibly with better battery life. Nintendo would never do that. I doubt Apple would either. But it would be a very interesting test.
- drewzero1 3y agoI've been playing Skyrim and Portal 2 on the Switch Lite and it keeps amazing me that games that my PS3 struggled with are now perfectly playable on a handheld device that has pretty good battery life and doesn't burn my hand. A device like this would have blown my mind 10 or 15 years ago (even more than the original PSP did the first time I saw one).
- fishtacos 3y agoThe PSP was amazing. The PS Vita - on a whole 'nother level, both performance-wise and controller improvement. It wasn't until the Switch came around in 2017 (purchased in 2018) that we realized HD (720p) gaming on a handheld machine. The fact that so many AAA games have been ported down to it is a testimony to its capabilities. Not a fan of nVIDIA in general, but they did an amazing job with this unit. If one wants real PC gameplay without porting down, the Steam Deck starts at $400, add a MicroSD card for more storage.
- hypercube33 3y agoWhat really blows me away is stuff like the z1 extreme and a laptop I have that is two generations behind that but has a 130w power envelope pushing 60-100fps AAA titles at 1440p - runs super hot but in a few years we may have handhelds doing something similar which I'm super excited for.
- fishtacos 3y agoThere is nothing that can be encompassed by a 220-300+ power envelope into a handheld for the next several years. Still, downgrading visual FX is one doable. Steam Deck 2 and Switch 2 are in the horizon. AMD v. Intel, as far as I'm concerned.
- zeusk 3y agoWait till you see what Apple's Vision group has in store.
- graphe 3y agoThe vita sucked with no homebrew and the switch is another psp. You could run games off the pro duo or a microsd adapter but vita was locked down, slow and a bunch of lame remakes and psp titles. The PSP emulated up to the PS1. By the time the switch was around people had been emulating on Android for a long time. They can do better graphics but there hasn’t been a game that made me feel like I needed 4K on handheld. The switch really is another golden age for gaming with the switch being hacked so quickly and having such good homebrew.
- fishtacos 3y agoThe PS Vita predated the Switch by 6+ years... by the time emulation and CPU speed to match its requirements, it was already discontinued by Sony. It fulfilled its purpose.
- graphe 3y agoThe vita was a direct downgrade from a PSP if you valued fast loading times, emulation, homebrew and piracy. Even if you didn't pirate you gained the ability to rebuy your PSP games, and new expensive games with an OLED that had less battery life.
- hbn 3y agoThe true testament to what can be handled on a mobile device these days is showcased on iOS devices. The iPhone 15 Pros can run a port of Resident Evil 7 at supposedly a pretty stable 30fps. Unfortunately all of Apple's chips are stuck in Apple devices, where they're still struggling to incentivize developers to do ports as standard. So they're pumping out beautiful graphics to beautiful displays for games with shitty touch screen controls that are riddled with ads and/or are just glorified virtual casinos.
- BD103 3y agoOther AAA games like Tears of the Kingdom also having stunning graphics. It’s quite impressive, though only rendered in 720p.