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I'd say a console needs to sell 60 million units to be considered succesfull. But this being the Switch2, it'll need at least 100 million or people will say it was a dud when compared to the Switch.
I looked up lifetime console sales on Wikipedia and was surprised to see that the Quest 2 has sold about 20 million units.
I can't be bothered arguing with randoms online anymore.
Digital Foundry is facing a big backlash ATM online over their insistence on insisting Switch 2 is a PS4 like experience.
It is quite strange at times given what we know and they're making all sorts of weird comparisons.
I think the problem for them is that we already have proper comparison videos with series S and Ps5.
We may not know the TDP and radterisation, but we all have eyes. We can tell what looks better to us.
You can't change that opinion with technical puffery. I think DF takes what they think they know about the hardware and it frames their whole opinion of what a game will look like. Alex was actually getting reamed on ResetEra because he was genuinely shocked on the backlash given Switch 2s power draw wattage wtf.
I think I read somewhere that US Switch 2 preorders begin on May 9. Can anyone confirm? I can’t seem to find the article.
Spawnwave video says April 23rd Canada, can't tell if it's the same for USA.But likely the same. Now they also found info for April 30th for preorders.
Gamestop are getting 100 per store so I wouldn't worry.
I want one from Gamestop so that I can use my trade in credit
I really like the remake snd since I never gave the original a fair shake I will be picking it up.
The EG community is pretty welcoming, there's hardly ever any truely heated discussion going on, it's always very civil. Their pool of frequent commenters is also smaller than you'd think.
As for comparing the Switch2 to current gen systems, the numbers are clear. Switch2 is weaker than even the Series S. Sure, it's more modern silicon, but that doesn't mean that those new systems are a free lunch. Digital Foundry built a PC similarly specced to Switch 2 and DLSS alliasing would take 9ms on Switch2, which is too high to be practically usefull as that's over a quarter of the time needed to render 30fps. I'd rather trust numbers than average Joe's eyes. Developers have become very good at fooling us with all kinds of trickery to fake better graphics.
The EU eshop has Paper Mario TTYD at 33% off.
I think it'll do better than that. I'm actually expecting it to follow the track of the Super Nintendo, which worldwide sold 80% of what the NES did. Even that might be a little generous, but I still think with Microsoft effectively leaving the market, Nintendo can still get around 75% of the Switch's sales for the Switch 2.
They found a 4k reference in the code but no word on Switch 2 enhancements.
Looks great to me. I loved the game but hope they fix the repetitive towers in the hellworld. Those became chores.Oh God and that vampires curse thing that wrecked me.
Yeah that laptop he simulated games on was nothing like the actual hardware. He blatantly made some hard statements and predictions and then backtracked and is being proven wrong quite badly.Now they are disregarding the director of Yakuza Zero when he's stating the port is 4k 60fps.
They said it wouldn't be more powerful than steamdeck. Based on teraflops alone it's twice as good.
Now they're comparing games that wouldn't run on Ps4 and saying the Switch version is what "we imagine" a ps4 version would look like. It's redactive nonsense.
Every comparison video I've seen, you can see some in the video thread, shows that the games broadly run around series S level.
The Series S can push 30% more terraflops, it's gpu is 50% faster, the RAM has twice the buswidth and the cpu is 3 times faster. And that's probably a comparision with Switch2 docked.
Edit: just saw my link states the Switch2 specs are rumoured specs only, so it might be better. Or ut might be not.