PC Gamer : There's a smarter way to bump your frame rate.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:
Switch 2 – 140,026
Switch Lite – 5,212
Switch OLED – 5,110
PS5 – 3,581
Switch – 2,442
PS5 Pro – 1,676
PS5 Digital Edition – 749
Xbox Series S – 107
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 47
Xbox Series X – 37
PS4 – 28
Nintendo - 152,790 units
PlayStation - 6,034 units
Microsoft - 191 units
Nintendo selling 25x as many units as the next closest competitor.
“ Nintendo Switch 2 still dominating in Japan”
Such a strange headline. I mean it’s a brand new console released on June 5th. It would be weird if it wasn’t still dominating in sales.
I figure its dominating everywhere. I stopped with consoles this gen sticking with PC and the switch will get 99% of the games this way.
Going strong sales! The Switch 2 was launched here in Southeast Asia on June 26. I was among those who pre-ordered. I got my unit the same day with Cyberpunk 2077, and there was a long line of people getting their pre-orders, not as long as the line when a NBA 2K series launched, but it was different because it will be released on all platforms.
I want to see how well the June and July world wide sales.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is more likely to be held back by software limitations than hardware limitations, according to a game developer.
It blows my mind that Nintendo didn’t bother to add the Hall effect to their analog joysticks after the NS1 was plagued by that. Is it too much for Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation to do a simple fix on their gamepads even if it costs a bit more?
I have someone who mods my controllers for me. A set of Hall effect modules are around 15$ retail. It should be standard these days.
Unfortunately, they could not use them due to the electromagnetic field from the magnets in the Switch 2 joy-cons, ironically it would cause drifting!
Any software that's released as a Game Key Card is an automatic skip so I can see that
LLC: "Nintendo Switch 2 is a massive upgrade in every way that matters on a day to day basis, and with some firmware updates it could be even better."
It is massive compared to the switch 1. 6-10X the power, but compared to current standards it’s the bare minimum.
It's just a minor upgrade nothing special. Could have included the Oled screen but greedy Nintendo have something planned for it already.
You are self aware of how dumb and "sheepy" that tagline of "greedy" sounds like at this point in time, right?
Every little entitled twat on the internet has used it ad nauseum, as if all of a sudden you somehow struck gold or something. it ALMOST sounds as infantile as the other meme vomit brain rot: "Defending the billion dollar company, blah, blah" FFS. tell me its "irony" at least what you are trying to express, so at least i can give you some credit for being "clever" or bold. I refuse to believe you ACTUALLY believe what you are saying, unironically,
Great review! We have almost the same impression of the Switch 2. I don't care if the screen isn't OLED, because when I put it next to my friend's Steam OLED screen, they barely deviated in quality.
as an owner of a Steam Deck OLED and a Switch 2 I can wholeheartedly disagree with this statement.
The Steam Deck is nice as I can play my Steam library on the go. But until the Steam Deck can run Mario Kart World or DK Bananza at 60fps then honestly, I can't even begin to compare the two.
And yet people will buy it regardless of the other "good" consoles lol. People want to have fun, not to gawk at dem gwafics like some of you would.
it can do better graphics than the Steam Deck. Higher resolution screen and it can use DLSS which is superior to FSR.
Screen response time is incredibly poor at over 33ms it is not true HDR (handheld screen) due to low brightness LCD. 120hz screen really is not a big help. Still fun, but an overpriced handheld IMHO
"There's a smarter way to bump your frame rate"
Yeah is called optimization lol, I hope PC gaming starts using that more often, lots of people don't realize that their old card probably never used its true potential cause lazy developers and so people thought they needed a new card, I mean just look the past old consoles what they can do, or even easier example is, I been using that FSR mode in some games and the FPS boost is freaking insane without lowering the resolution in the video settings and I'm using a freaking 1060 GTX 6 GB old card, DLSS could work as well but Nvidia blocked its mode to only 2000 series cards and above, AMD end up being the most customer friendly cause I can use its mode in a branded NVidia card, a really good reputation increase for AMD no doubt.
Only in the last year or so we've gotten decent 27" 4k monitors with good pixel response and 160+Hz. We still need next gen cards to drive that resolution and speed as the graphics get more complex.
People will probably rave about 8k next but it's not much good when games will run like crap, have high pixel response times and probably be limited to 60Hz along with being expensive.
Having a 3080ti you can see it's very unsustainable and the heat generation is fairly awful to game with.
Unfortunately with the exorbitant prices orchestrated by Nvidia and signs they intend on keeping it that way, I can't see them putting the brakes on bigger and bigger graphics cards.
It's a shame Steam Machines didn't take off. Coupled with Vulkan, it would have allowed low-level access or "coding to the metal" on GPUs.
It also would have been a one size fits all OS (Linux kernel) that wasn't bloated, taking away from the processing pipeline.
Optimization for sure, Deus Ex Mankind Divided is a prime example. With my 3070, on max settings, terrible FPS for a game that is now 6 years old, and isn't stellar in the looks department.