Nintendo has officially announced their new system coming March 2017, the Nintendo Switch. All the rumors and leaked documents fans have been rummaging through these past few months have ultimately been true. Things like the use of a cartridge for games, detachable controllers, and portability of a tablet have been made true. I wish I could explain it better than Nvidia did in their most recent blog post (the chip set is developed by them so it makes sense) and in turn I will link and post their description below.
The first thing to know about the new Nintendo Switch home gaming system: it’s really fun to play. With great graphics, loads of game titles and incredible performance, the Nintendo Switch will provide people with many hours of engaging and interactive gaming entertainment.
But creating a device so fun required some serious engineering. The development encompassed 500 man-years of effort across every facet of creating a new gaming platform: algorithms, computer architecture, system design, system software, APIs, game engines and peripherals. They all had to be rethought and redesigned for Nintendo to deliver the best experience for gamers, whether they’re in the living room or on the move.
A Console Architecture for the Living Room and BeyondNintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor. The high-efficiency scalable processor includes an NVIDIA GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards.The Nintendo Switch’s gaming experience is also supported by fully custom software, including a revamped physics engine, new libraries, advanced game tools and libraries. NVIDIA additionally created new gaming APIs to fully harness this performance. The newest API, NVN, was built specifically to bring lightweight, fast gaming to the masses.
Gameplay is further enhanced by hardware-accelerated video playback and custom software for audio effects and rendering.
We’ve optimized the full suite of hardware and software for gaming and mobile use cases. This includes custom operating system integration with the GPU to increase both performance and efficiency.
NVIDIA gaming technology is integrated into all aspects of the new Nintendo Switch home gaming system, which promises to deliver a great experience to gamers.
The Nintendo Switch will be available in March 2017. More information is available at https://www.nintendo.com/switch.
Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.
Here is the sizzle real Nintendo provided with todays announcement.
All of us here at Geek Gossip Guys will give a more in depth analysis of what we think in podcast 45 (44 is recorded prior to this announcement so no talks on it occur when that goes up). For right now though I am on the fence. The gimmicky nature that Nintendo backed themselves into in recent years seems to have mostly gone to the wayside in many aspects on the Switch. The tiny controllers being the only gimmick as of right now to me. Overall I need to know more about what the system is capable of before jumping in totally.
What do you guys think about this new console? Is it doing something you would look forward to or has it pushed you away? Let us know in the comments below!
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