Board 8 > Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-demoed-switch-2-to-developers-at-gamescom

Mama Mia

Virtual Boy 2 you heard it here first

New Wii U

Sounds like "this time it's for real" but for real this time

Oh, well, we know it exists now at least.

Just make it backwards compatible and it'll be a winner.

And they used a Wii U game to demo it

Oh shit that's cool. Wonder when they'll officially unveil it.

New Super Switch U 64

https://twitter.com/MyNintendoNews/status/1699839696724193740

Been saying for years now that DLSS was the key to helping whatever the next Switch iteration was close the power gap so it's great to see they're supposedly going to be leveraging it.

Yeah it would be a huge fuck up to not use DLSS

more news that one of the things demoed was that Matrix tech demo from awhile back

If they just seamlessly include all services on the Switch in the Switch 2, make it fully backwards compatible, basically make it a huge upgrade rather than a "new" console, I'd be so happy.

That Matrix tech demo is...maybe the best looking game of all time? So if the Switch 2 can run that, holy shit. I'll believe it when I see it though.

This feels in line with what I thought would happen with Furukawa replacing Iwata. He's a more traditional CEO and targeting more power on the same idea seemed like the no brainer over trying to reinvent video games again

Oh yeah for sure. With the mega success of the Switch, they'd be complete morons to not just do another Switch with more power rather than trying to reinvent the wheel like Nintendo likes to try and do.

Noooo don't let it do raytracing

I'm not sure about DLSS. I haven't used it myself, but I've seen people say it can give games a look that's a bit off? Not sure how accurate that is. FSR looked pretty good in Tears of the Kingdom.

FSR? Are you a pirate?!

Waluigi1 posted...

Oh yeah for sure. With the mega success of the Switch, they'd be complete morons to not just do another Switch with more power rather than trying to reinvent the wheel like Nintendo likes to try and do.

But let's hope they don't name it like DS > 3DS or Wii > Wii U. Apparently that just confuses the fuck out of people

starting over the retro library every new system is such a pain

Grimlyn posted...

starting over the retro library every new system is such a pain

Oh, you don't like getting the same retro games we've had since Wii six years into the console's life?

If nothing else, PLEASE let this be BC this time. Please just add to what's already there instead of starting from scratch and taking the console's entire life cycle to get to where we are for the fourth time.

MacArrowny posted...

I'm not sure about DLSS. I haven't used it myself, but I've seen people say it can give games a look that's a bit off? Not sure how accurate that is. FSR looked pretty good in Tears of the Kingdom.

During the 2.0 days it was pretty rocky in some cases. Now though, the average game looks great with it on. Extremely close to native in many cases - plus some weird outliers like Death Stranding where using it actually looks better than native. Notably, on average the results look far better than FSR, though you'd certainly hope that would be the case with a proprietary technology. (And it's worth mentioning that the gap between the two solutions is reportedly about to close enormously with FSR 3.0!)