I highly doubt Nintendo is attempting any kind of gap closure with the deck, because how could they and why?
The only thing they share is a form factor. Nintendo is well aware that the reason they sell consoles is as a dedicated platform for their own games. I truly believe that is their bread and butter and all they really care about. If the system gets popular enough, then it will get some third party support which means it will have some very limited library crossover with PC/PS/Xbox, but I think we are past the point where Nintendo intends to rely on that as a selling point for this or any future generation of consoles.
Which is all to say, I don’t think Nintendo and Valve think of each other as direct competitors, because they serve entirely different markets. I have both a switch and a deck. I love them both. I use my switch to play Nintendo games, I use my deck to play pretty much anything else. I don’t think I’m unique at all in that regard, and frankly it never would occur to me that these devices have anything to do with one another.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 year ago
Source? There's no way nintendo is doing this.
Ketchup@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I want to believe. Will huffing paint help?
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 year ago
Can’t hurt!
YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve either huffed too much paint or not enough, and since I can’t huff less theres only one option left.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I always go by the wisdom of Airplane:
I picked the wrong day to stop huffing paint.
Alto@kbin.social 1 year ago
Didn't it tuen out that it was literally just the same architecture? Doesn't really mean shit
Lord_Wunderfrog@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
Exactly, same architecture means nothing if it only draws a fraction of the power, eg from a battery and not mains. Not only that, but size and cooling constraints mean with our current tech, it’s impossible to have a small handheld as powerful as current gen consoles
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 year ago
Honestly the biggest barrier is nintendo's policy of making profit on hardware. Microsoft loses $100-$200 per console and the XSX still costs $500. Is nintendo really ready to charge $600 or $700 for their device?
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
The biggest barrier is that Nvidia has shown no capability to make a CPU that isn't unconditional dogshit for gaming, and the CPU is the Switch's problem.
The only company that's made an ARM CPU remotely interesting is Apple.
Privatepower42@fosstodon.org 1 year ago
@Alto @Fubarberry @spiderkle @BolexForSoup on the same lever as a PS5??? Dang. You had curiosity but now you have my attention
Alto@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's not going to be, it's (from what I've seen) simply the same architecture. It'll probably be what's essentially a very cut down and underpowered (as in literally uses less power) version of it. Still a massive step up from the switch, which was already well outdated when it launched, but it's not going to touch PS5 performance