Nintendo exec believes the top selling handheld can 'coexist' alongside DSi at retail.
In an interview with Wired.com, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway has stated that the unveiling of DSi doesn't mean the end of the DS Lite.
When asked whether DSi would replace DS Lite, Dunaway said: "Right now we're still working through what the strategy's going to be here."
"But we think that there's huge untapped potential for the DS Lite. Because when you've got only one in every five households in the U.S., compared to one in every two in Japan, it says there's potential."
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"Closer alignment" to PS4 and Xbox One.
Thought I had read somewhere that it might be close to Xbox Series X and PS5 in terms of visuals. That it had been shown running that Matrix Unreal 5 demo. If it's closer to Xbox One and PS4 then that's extremely disappointing already.
its going to be closer to a PS4, 1.84 teraflops, but has a few new tricks up its sleeve, 12 gigs of ram / dlss 3 / raytracing / SSD
It's going to have a bit of a rough time with next gen third party games. The current gen machines are already having trouble with UE5 upscaling from 720p and still having fairly big FPS dips here and there.
I'd rather devs work with the hardware limitations to make sure games run at least a fairly solid 60fps, like by downgrading textures etc.. Instead of pushing the consoles beyond what they're capable of like they do now with a locked 30fps or 60 with big dips. DF also stated similar in their newest video.
I think first party games have a chance of looking nice and running well on the new Switch as long as they don't overdo it.
OK, for the people downvoting, can you at least explain why you are quite happy for the Switch 2 to have similar visuals to a console released 4 years before the original Switch, which is itself a 6 year old console?
it's a handheld, imagine how much it would cost to have a portable PS5/XSX in your hands. You see the prices on things like the Ayaneo? Not to mention the abysmal battery life on something like the Steam Deck?
a portable PS4 would look amazing to be honest.
It's a handheld at its core there is no magic toggle or hidden GPU in the dock and it will have a 5 hour battery according to Nintendo's prioritys
I would expect it to maybe surpass the PS4 a little in terms of performance, but DLSS will give a nice visual bump to their titles.
Having DLSS and Nvidia’s stellar Ray Tracing performance will be huge. I expect Switch 2 to run most 3rd games available on PS5 and Series X. Nintendo’s first party games are really going to shine. I can only imaging what they will pull off.
I am thinking somewhere between PS4 & PS4 Pro level base perf just from the SoC and then DLSS 3+ giving the boost its known for on top of it + the 12GB memory & SSD aiding in.
As far as actual hardware it will be nowhere near PS5 and Series X. DLSS will play a huge role in getting resolution and frame rates in line with PS5 and Series X though. Nvidia is also much better with Ray Tracing so I expect Switch 2 to great in that regard.
It's going to be using NVIDIA tech to get the most out of the system so dlss 3 etc it should be fairly competent but I'm thinking the truth will be somewhere in the middle of last gen and current gen.
Still we all know what Nintendo can do on old hardware Luigi's mansion 3 had an art style that made it look like a ps4 level game on what was essentially 7.2 gen hardware seriously that game could stack up to some current gen efforts
I never understood why Sony didn't do this since a ps4 handheld seems like a perfect wim for them
More High School Musical games are always better!
Is it really only 1 out of 5? I thought it would at least be 1 out of 3 households. I mean we have 3 in our house! And every single person I know also has one.
my girlfreinds family all has a ds lite the gramps,grany mom, dad, her brother etc you know the works
and i have one too well the orignal one but i was going to get the ds lite but i mean i aready got the orginal and money will becoem an issue since im turning 18 in a few months so i figured since i have the original i will skip the ds lite for now and get this one for features i have heard on here it is going to have so
if anyone think its a good idea agree or disagree it wont matter to me