finally, a game for people who thought bioshock was too subtle
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Iâm surprised none of yâall are talking much about the NX supposedly using cartridges as Nintendo quadruples-down on nostalgia.
Unless you folks donât give that aspect of the report much credence. I wonder if theyâd essentially just be thick SD cards or something.
I dunno, the way the word cartridge is being bandied about in these reports Iâm imagining something beefier (physically, not just in storage capacity). Some weirdo bespoke format meant to evoke the âold schoolâ.
Flash NAND is cheap(er) now. Both the 3DS and Vita already use non-disc media. If the NX is a portable aimed right at the family (kids) market, why the hell would you want a drive assembly in it. Itâs probably the most sensible decision, if true, to come out of the leak.
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Yeah. Spinning drives of all kinds are a transitional and now dead technology in consumer hardware. We will never see them again from now on. Nintendo is going back to the future on this one.
No reason to expect theyâll be beefy. I expect the NX in general will be pretty slender hardware, aiming to be ipad-like although failing at it.
I do! I also remember the PSP Go, the ill-portend to the all digital future of portables.
is it going to be region locked
If itâs just NX games: probably
If itâs also mobile games: bwahahaha, of course
hey screw you pâall I found two my UMDS were broken last night.
IGN fella saying âOrwellian Nightmareâ has definitely never read 1984 and then had nightmares three days following it.
I mean 4 and 5 (maybe 3 too I donât remember) end with Kiryu dead and then they back out on it. 5âs really bad plot and twists have somewhat soured me on the series.
That facial technology is something else though.
Casual reminder that Nintendo is a part of the Khronus group, the industry consortium for the Vulkan API, a fact that will make many mobile devs happy going forward (UE4 and Unity are implementing Vulkan support and for other/custom engines, itâll make ports a lot less work as it picks up speed on PC and Android)
AFAIK Nintendo has not been particularly active in the Vulkan standardization process. A lot of companies are Khronos members just in case the membership might come in handy for something, it doesnât mean much.
Also, Vulkan has been standardized very recently and there is no really robust Vulkan implementation yet â developer but not user-usable drivers are just now trickling out for a few Android and Windows devices. The timing doesnât work out for NX to have it.
That said, do I expect Nintendo and Sony eventually to adopt either Vulkan or (following their approach to OpenGL) a highly Vulkan-inspired proprietary API? Certainly.
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Vulkanâs more mature than youâd think it is, because as drivers go itâs considerably âdumberâ than all the work that had to go into making a reasonably competent D3D/OpenGL driver.
New Doom actually supports it and it runs ridiculously fast for it.
New Doom has Vulkan, yes, but most of the gains are on GCN due to the use of shader intrinsics from the console ports and strong async compute support. Pre-Pascal NVIDIA chips arenât seeing huge gains and id outright doesnât support any 2GB NV card.
Yeah I was gonna say, I think this is the first game that I can really say is a straight up Bioshock clone.