Activision-Blizzard CEO apparently says next Nintendo system close to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One power-wise
Activision-Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has spilled the beans about the graphical fidelity of the next Nintendo console during the Activision-Blizzard deal FTC hearing. Speaking to the court about Call of Duty and other topics he revealed that the successor to the incredibly popular Nintendo Switch system is close to Generation 8 in terms of power. Generation 8 consists of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One console. Nintendo themselves have yet to reveal any information about the Switch successor, other than it will use Nintendo Accounts to make the transition smoother for players.
Just revealed Bobby Kotick and Nintendo have had active talks about the next-generation Nintendo console
Also says that apparently Next-Gen Nintendo console is close to Gen 8 power (PlayStation 4 / Xbox One)
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I cant help but feel disappointed with this. Mainly because the current switch in my book could compete with a PS3
No… It can’t. You’re an expert when it comes to talking out of your rear, apparently.
The best looking first party PS3 (and Xbox 360) games such as Uncharted rendered at 720p at 30fps on a good day. First party Switch games, meanwhile, render anywhere from 1440×810 to full 1080p, as seen with Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (at 60fps!) and Luigi’s Mansion 3.
The PS3 could NEVER, for example, run Metroid Prime Remastered at its 1600×900 resolution at the smooth 60fps it runs at on Switch.
I’m still impressed with how the Switch is more powerful than the PS360 when it came out in 2017 and now the same could be happening with the Switch 2?
Consider me happy.
Nice. That makes it more likely that it’s going to be a Switch 2 rather than something new and potentially gimmicky/unnecessary.
This is bittersweet. I’m glad that it seems like gimmicks won’t be a thing next gen with Nintendo. But being 2 generations behind power wise is a hard pill to swallow.
Well to be honest, there isn’t really that many games on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S that have taken advantage of the better hardware, and it’s been almost 3 years now, with a lot of the games on both systems coming to PC anyways.
I think the next gen Nintendo Console being a more powerful Switch with PS4/Xbox One power is actually a good thing because it’ll utilize Nvidia’s tech which includes DLSS, and from the rumours of the “Switch Pro” it seems like they’ll be adding in tech from the recent RTX 40 series inside the Switch so it can run DLSS 3.0 whilst graphics wise you’d be looking at an RTX 30 series, I predict sort of RTX 3060 levels of performance when Docked and RTX 3050 Ti when undocked.
So don’t be too worried about the Switch’s Successor being on the same power level as the PS4 and Xbox One because those console are still pretty good even to this day when it comes to power.
Close to an RTX 3060 when docked….. What lol..
The 3060 12gb is a 13 teraflop discrete GPU that’s significantly more powerful than a PS5.
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.
Also, if we’re gonna be Smarty Pants… the RTX 2060 is around 54 Teraflops…. so by you logic, shouldn’t that be more powerful than the PS5 AND the RTX 3060?
SHADER cores are different from the main die, so while I might be ways off, I might not be entirely wrong either. Might wanna do more research before putting your nerdy glasses on, bud
Close to an RTX 3060 in power..
What? LOL
The 12gb 3060 is a 13 teraflop discrete GPU that’s significantly more powerful then a PS5. You’d know this, had you took 30 extra seconds to look before sounding like a fool.
You do realize they make a Laptop varient, right?
Also, why you need to act like the nerd Emoji?
Likely it’ll be the Laptop Varient, which is clocked down compared to the Desktop counter part and also, it was a rough guess, but then again, people like you tend to attack people and act like a know it all because it’s the only way to get some satification.
They have mobile versions of the 30 series and full desktop versions. A laptop with a 3060 is not the actual 3060, it’s a shaved down 3060, more like 3050. There are full desktop versions in laptops. Also they are expensive so don’t expect an SoC in the next gen Switch with capabilities of a 3060 and a Ryzen 5 5600 X and expect it to cost $200, it ain’t happening on the price because it’s unrealistic.
It’s exactly what I was expecting.
I was hoping it’d be close to PS4 Pro, but… oh, well.
Nintendo gave up on having powerful machines after GameCube.
I bet it’s out in 2024. Maybe holiday 2024.
The switch is close to the ps4/x1. I have yet seen a game on the ps5 that can’t be done (graphically) on the ps4.
The Switch is not remotely close to PS4/Xbox One. Like seriously, it’s not even close.
Look I’m sorry but almost any game can be done on any system. It is all about what cutbacks your willing to make. If you actually want to get technical about it the PS4 can’t run any game at the same resolution and frame rate as a PS5. People kill me with this “this game isn’t next gen” crap. What qualifies a game as next gen in the first place? The XSX/PS5 games have higher resolution, texture quality, frame rate, draw distance, geometry count than PS4/XB1 games. Then you have the games that have ray tracing.
Honestly this is exactly what I was hoping for. Would I like a Nintendo console as powerful as the PS5? I guess? But I don’t buy Nintendo systems for the same reason I buy PS systems so I am cool with this.
WHO need more power? On ps2 run smooth games like ff10, ff12, shadow of the collossus, mgs3, gran turismo 4 or god of war 🙂
Graphis is for stupids, players need level design and smooth gameplay 🙂
Assuming this is yet another hybrid machine, this is exactly what I expected. Its somewhat comparable to the Steam Deck as that platform is roughly the power of last generation consoles as well. If the next gen Nintendo platform releases late next year just to put a realistic date out there, it’ll release two and a half years after the Steam Deck.
Most other platforms sell at a loss in hopes to make up that loss with software sales, but Nintendo tends to make their platform with outdated tech to make sure they profit on their hardware sales too. Since it isn’t also trying to be a computer (unlike the Steam Deck), they can make it affordable between $300~$400 and still make a profit off of each hardware sale.
I think what he meant was it is getting close to its higher power chip and 60 frames per second. So, I believe its the same hybrid machine like the current Switch we have now. Most of the consoles market sells suffer a greater lost and Nintendo made the Switch to make up for lost sales for the Wii U failure and its lack of accuracies of the system library of games.
Cool! Hopefully will get red dead on the successor then and an awesome looking Metroid prime 4.
I think a power hike to that sort of level which is portable is pretty dam good to be fair.
If I’m desperate to play a movie like COD game Il get it on ps5, but I doubt il get the urge.
I think a lot of people are getting stuck on the power thing. Nintendo and other devs that actually want put out amazing projects on the console are going to be able to do some crazy stuff on it. Mark my words.
They could do even more amazing things without the handicap of weak hardware.
Breath of the Wild on Wii U vs. Cemu is night and day. A lot of us are sick of paying a premium for what is obviously a compromised experience.
Are you kidding me? The PS4 is already 10 years old, and this is gonna be more underpowered than that? The Super Switch is going to be 20 YEARS lagging behind in power by the end of its life cycle.
The Nintendo Switch had a similar power gap with its Xbox One and PS4 rivals and yet it’s a major success story to the point where Microsoft works with Nintendo and Sony. Absolutely despises them because they wish they had that type of sales and support especially in Japan.
It’s almost certainly going to be another portable console…when has a portable console ever been as powerful as the competing home consoles. Your expectations are strange.
PS4/Xbox One powerish (doesn’t matter if it’s a shade below) is exactly where the machine needs to be.
It says close to, not being on par. Expecting even aa portable console to be as powerful as decade old hardware is not strange, it’s par for the course. The DS was more powerful than the N64 when it was 8 years old, and the Switch is more powerful than the GameCube. The PS4 and Xbone turn 10 years old as if this year before the Switch 2 is even out. The fact you think my expectations are strange is very strange to me.
Not saying that your expectations are strange, but the Gamecube is 22 years old now. Ten years prior to the Switch was Xbox360 era. But yeah. Would be disappointing if it’s not more powerful, but a CEO saying “close to” doesn’t necessarily mean over or under, it just lumps it in power-wise with that general generation of devices, which could mean a range of things.
Nintendo’s next device will likely be another hybrid, meaning its still just a handheld at its core. Additionally, Nintendo unlike their competitors likes to profit off of their hardware sales. These two facts will indefinitely hold them back each generation they continue to have this mindset.
I’m okay with this knowing it’ll be because its a handheld. That and their impressive IPs are their best selling points. It’ll be a disappointment if their next platform isn’t a hybrid for me. I’m okay with playing with 10 year old console specs if it means its portable to boot. But then I also have a fairly new modern PC to play my 3rd party games on Steam at max settings too…
The majority of games that come out on the Xbox series X still get released on Xbox one.
The majority of PS5 games still get released on the PS4.
The majority of games getting released are being made scalable to reach the biggest market share.
The larger developers are only starting to realise that the switch is the second best selling console of all time and are now trying everything to get their games to play on it even if they are a broken mess or played on the cloud with huge lag.
And those games heavily lag if you’re running them on vanilla PS4 and Xbone hardware. Heck, KH3 was 4 years ago, and I saw performance issues playing on that, and I’m sure the issue has only grown with more games by now, but I wouldn’t know since I’ve upgraded to a PS5 since then.
Yeah I have mix feelings about that type of theory.
I get performance issues on all of my consoles when the developer hasn’t done everything they can to make the game smooth.
Nintendo tried to be the power front runner and failed.
Now Nintendo make consoles that sell very well instead.
If a console takes off for them they only rely on their own development teams to make the best software for it.
There’s definitely games that have issues regardless, but I’m talking specifically power limitations. When I was playing KH 2.8 on vanilla hardware for example the hair textures wouldn’t even render properly, but when I later tested it on my PS5 it rendered completely normally. It may still technically run on that old hardware, but you’re not going to have the best time when the games recommend more power.
I understand the power limitations of older consoles hold back high resolution textures and better lighting effects but I still think the development team should be putting more time into making all of their versions of a game run well on all of the platforms they have chosen to put it on.
They are short changing the players who can’t afford to upgrade to the newer consoles and charging them the same price for an inferior product.
They need to be all in on all versions or chose the versions that they can deliver on.
Fine by me, games like the Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil games still look fantastic on PS4 IMO. I just hope they’re working to fix the storage problem… I’m tired of having to check card games to make sure they’re not “download required” games, and cloud editions can just forget about getting any money from me.
Could mean a range of things. Context shows he’s referring to the general ballpark. He even says they don’t know the specs yet. Sounds like he’s just generally lumping this system in with that generation, which includes several models. Would hope to see performance exceed the base forms of those consoles. Raw power isn’t everything and more modern chips can do more with less, but 8th gen base consoles feels like the bare minimum (for my satisfaction, obv Nintendo will be fine). The dream would be something approaching the PS4 Pro. Switch barely improved on Wii U power, which was fine at the time, but a third console in that general ballpark would be about 20 years of small growth.
Close? You mean to tell me Wii U, Switch and Switch 2 are all less powerful than the PS4?
History teaches us their next system will have a really dumb name Swith Goo or the system will be colored purple with a lunchbox handle and it will fail.
Then everyone will doubt them again and then they’ll make another system afterwards called the Nintendo Duality and it’ll sell a billion units… because history always repeats itself… forever.
It’s cylindrical.
Imagine putting out another barely 1080p console in current decade.
The SwitchU will be just in time to port all the previous generations games that the original couldnt handle.
Since the Tegra 1, how many chips has Nividia produced?
What if you let Nintendo announce it themselves…? Otherwise to answer some questions: if the rumors say true then it will ship dls 2.2, which means at least an RTX 30XX graphics chip and a soc is ready for that: the nvidia Orin but do not expect its raw power, it will surely be restrained for reasons of cost and especially energy saving ….
I also do not believe in a “real” home console for Nintendo, the hybrid function of the switch has been all too successful
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