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interesting comparison
of course it is a series s, not an x, but still
the switch 2 has way more power than i think anybody thought it was going to have

@beardalaxy Which makes it all the more confusing why Nintendo didn't have anything to really show off the graphics and instead highlighted games with more computational demand. 24 players in a grand open world is great, but the models look only slightly better than 10 year old ones. And fully destructible environments is neat, but DK's fur looks like plastic which is worse than what was done on the Wii with Mario Galaxy.

@inTrax it goes to show how great mk8 looked in the first place. Nintendo really knows how to make their games look pretty. I'm really glad they aren't using dlss or RT. Metroid prime 4 also looked gorgeous, and that one is running at 4k60 somehow, which they did talk about on the direct.

@beardalaxy @intrax They are using DLSS. Its in nividias press release and the only way these games are reaching 4k or 120 fps since shit like the DK game cant even hit 1080p 60 fps lmao

@KaiserKitty @inTrax with Mario Kart and Metroid Prime Digital Foundry pixel counted and confirmed there wasn't any DLSS. i generally trust those guys when it comes to that kind of technical stuff.

NVIDIA said that games are able to use DLSS, the technology supports it, but i don't think they said that all of the games are using it.

i've heard donkey kong is running at 1080p and has frame drops. i honestly don't like the look of the game that much.

@beardalaxy @KaiserKitty Yeah, NVIDIA basically said *those* games aren't using DLSS, implying that some games can use it.
As much as I dislike it being used as a crutch to show improved performance in every new graphics card, I'm interested to see how DLSS could be employed on limited hardware such as the Switch 2 to optimize other aspects of the performance.

@inTrax @KaiserKitty developers should ideally target the switch 2 hardware to the best of their ability and then apply DLSS afterwards if they wish to. i definitely think it should be something you can toggle too.

@beardalaxy It looks about the same. It looks like they just changed the gamma.

@mikuphile yeah the gamma difference is definitely a difference in the stream or something like that. the textures are higher quality though and the model is a slightly higher quality.

we are definitely in the era of diminishing returns when it comes to graphics instead of massive leaps like back in the day though lol.

i was more referring to how almost everyone thought that the switch 2 would have roughly the performance of a ps4 but now we're looking at something in between a series s and a series x which is crazy in a portable for $450.

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