Comments on: Nintendo Needs To Ensure Red Dead Redemption 2 Launches On Switch For The Console To Sell Well https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-needs-to-ensure-red-dead-redemption-2-launches-on-switch-for-the-console-to-sell-well Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gabriel Porto https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-needs-to-ensure-red-dead-redemption-2-launches-on-switch-for-the-console-to-sell-well#comment-308133 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:27:00 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=282555#comment-308133 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4f2218bd99a2d4056f6076832b4501b5de1e3e35aae9b6fe1a38746b48cdd636.gif

]]> By: Dave https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-needs-to-ensure-red-dead-redemption-2-launches-on-switch-for-the-console-to-sell-well#comment-308069 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:03:00 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=282555#comment-308069 you should just accept the fact that Nintendo consoles are designed for 1st party Nintendo franchises, sure you’ll get 1/2 games from other companies,

i’m laughing at the desperation of trying to convince yourself that 3rd party studio games would come to this garbage under-powered mario console !

and I’m laughing at the desperation of wanting the console to succeed, it’s prob going to sell less the Wii U and ignored by 99% of gamers

with xbox one / ps4 nobody needs another home console, yes it’s a home console not portable 3ds

]]> By: d0x360 https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-needs-to-ensure-red-dead-redemption-2-launches-on-switch-for-the-console-to-sell-well#comment-308034 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:42:00 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=282555#comment-308034 Nintendo will have to pay Rockstar a **** load of money to get Red Dead or GTA on Switch.

These games run on engines that have been fine tuned for 10+ years to work as efficiently as possible on x86 CPUs and pc centric GPUs.

Running on the switch would require porting the engine and all the middle ware to ARM which is a RISC CPU aka REDUCED instruction set CPU.

That is no easy feat but it’s possible. It would also take a dedicated team quite a while.

Let’s also not forget the gulf in power between the switch and the modern consoles. On paper it may look like it can do what the Xbox or ps4 can do but it can’t. Not at the level of completion we are just now starting to see. nVidia is good but not that good. If they could design an ARM based CPU that good it would be in every device which was their original goal with tegra and look how that worked out.

Nintendo was stupid to go with a RISC setup but they wanted that whole portable deal…all 3 potential hours worth wow! So happy to trade away all that free power so I can maybe game on the go for 3 hours

Still…I’ll buy one because it’s Nintendo and I’ve owned every Nintendo system ever. Since this is probably their last it would be dumb to start skipping them now.

I’ll say this… Nintendo is gonna be very unhappy when it comes time to relicense from nVidia. They are known to price low and then back you into a corner later. They did it to Microsoft, they did it to Sony and now they can do it to Nintendo! Don’t they wonder why everyone uses amd?

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