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Coffeebeanz
04/09/17 11:43:36 PM
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Mobile GPU tech has gone completely bonkers in the last few years - It makes me wonder at what point the diminishing returns of high end GPU advancement will make portable devices seem relatively on par consoles (especially when not outputting at 4K).

I'm not saying Mario Kart 8 is the best looking game in the world, but the fact that a tiny-ass tablet can run it at 1080p 60fps is really nuts. 4K will probably the realm of standalone GPUs and high-end hardware for a long while, but at 1080p I can't help but think that we no longer really need dedicated hardware beyond the scope of what portables can handle.
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Patty_Fleur
04/09/17 11:47:38 PM
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Fuck me please
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Rika_Furude
04/09/17 11:48:09 PM
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Patty_Fleur
04/09/17 11:49:37 PM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.
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BlackHorse6969
04/09/17 11:49:42 PM
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i agree
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MrK3V
04/09/17 11:50:12 PM
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TheGoldenEel
04/09/17 11:50:20 PM
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Coffeebeanz posted...
I can't help but think that we no longer really need dedicated hardware

ps4 has sold 60 million
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Rika_Furude
04/09/17 11:50:36 PM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

I bet you never beat any fire emblem game on lunatic
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legendarylemur
04/09/17 11:50:43 PM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

Their handheld got SMT4A, which is basically if Persona 5 was hardcore. Persona 5 being considered "hardcore" is fucking laughable when the gameplay is muddled and simplified for the sake of letting players advance for the story
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WalkingLobsters
04/09/17 11:51:19 PM
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Fuck me please
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legendarylemur
04/09/17 11:52:38 PM
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WalkingLobsters posted...
Fuck me please

I have you tagged as walkingpedophile. I don't think anybody in this site is according to your taste :P
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WalkingLobsters
04/09/17 11:52:58 PM
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legendarylemur posted...
WalkingLobsters posted...
Fuck me please

I have you tagged as walkingpedophile. I don't think anybody in this site is according to your taste :P

16 is legal in most states you clown
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Patty_Fleur
04/09/17 11:54:18 PM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

I bet you never beat any fire emblem game on lunatic


I beat Path of Radiance on the hardest difficulty. All FE games are more or less the same
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Rika_Furude
04/09/17 11:54:52 PM
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Darmik
04/09/17 11:55:04 PM
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If Sony could cram a PS4 into a tablet form factor it would be released tomorrow. Eventually this stuff will be feasible. Kinda like how laptops overtook gaming PC's.
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green butter
04/09/17 11:55:08 PM
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Once the AAA gaming bubble pops I think it will be PC gaming and shit like the Switch that survives
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legendarylemur
04/09/17 11:56:50 PM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

I bet you never beat any fire emblem game on lunatic


I beat Path of Radiance on the hardest difficulty. All FE games are more or less the same

Lols PoR on the hardest difficulty isn't really that big of a deal. Radiant Dawn was the hard one on GC. Not to mention FE games being the same is pretty much false. Though referring to PoR makes me feel you haven't actually played the 3DS ones
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Patty_Fleur
04/10/17 12:01:34 AM
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legendarylemur posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

I bet you never beat any fire emblem game on lunatic


I beat Path of Radiance on the hardest difficulty. All FE games are more or less the same

Lols PoR on the hardest difficulty isn't really that big of a deal. Radiant Dawn was the hard one on GC. Not to mention FE games being the same is pretty much false. Though referring to PoR makes me feel you haven't actually played the 3DS ones


I own both 3ds games, FE7, FE8, path if Radiance, and once owned radiant dawn. The games bore me to death now. I beat about 3 chapters if awaking and played about 2 chapters of the latest game I bought.
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ssj3vegeta_
04/10/17 12:02:01 AM
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Darmik
04/10/17 12:08:59 AM
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You can get a legit 1070 in a laptop these days. It's really not that crazy.

Something like the PS5 will probably have a few models and form factors. If it's easy to scale games across several configurations (which both Sony and Microsoft are already doing this generation) then the next obvious thing is to make a tablet/portable version of it. I'd say the biggest issue right now is balancing cheap physical media (which might be a non-factor if more and more people do digital) and storage.
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Rika_Furude
04/10/17 4:06:05 AM
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Darmik posted...
You can get a legit 1070 in a laptop these days. It's really not that crazy.

the entire tablet including all accessories such as the touchscreen, internals like wifi etc, controllers, is smaller than a 1070 gpu
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F1areaGaman
04/10/17 4:21:43 AM
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What Impresses me is that the Switch is only $300 while stilll being comparable to high-end tablets for gaming. The main reason is probably the limited 32GB storage....but games come on carts and SD cards are inexpensive and games run very fast from flash memory...faster than off an HDD in most cases.
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booboy
04/10/17 5:31:51 AM
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SD cards are the way forward for physical media for gaming. a 256GB SD card is something like $15 off of newegg, and last I checked, a BD disc can only hold 50GB.
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jonicthechao4
04/10/17 5:34:34 AM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.

I bet you never beat any fire emblem game on lunatic


I beat Path of Radiance on the hardest difficulty. All FE games are more or less the same

So you played the JP version's Maniac Mode?
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Cartwheel_Kick
04/10/17 8:28:20 AM
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so you guys actually care about the "play big games on a portable tablet" gimmick?

I can barely find a comfortable way to play my 3DS for an hour. Nor do I need elaborate games when I'm traveling; even Nintendo acknowledged this by making every 3DS game playable by short bursts (see Paper Mario SS fiasco, Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario Party, RE:Revelations etc.). I haven't given a shit about this yet-another-gimmick for a nintendo console from the initial announcement.

I wouldn't need to play W3 or any other PS4 games on a portable small screen, either
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Rika_Furude
04/10/17 9:05:11 AM
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yanksfan4247
04/10/17 9:11:39 AM
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booboy posted...
a 256GB SD card is something like $15 off of newegg.


Uh no
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DevsBro
04/10/17 9:42:53 AM
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I don't think this is up for debate.

The only question is exactly how garbage of a future video gaming has as a result.
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green butter
04/10/17 9:44:35 AM
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DevsBro posted...
I don't think this is up for debate.

The only question is exactly how garbage of a future video gaming has as a result.

it's not looking good tbh
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winged_weltall
04/10/17 9:45:41 AM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve except for polygon and pixel count


Lol

They offer nothing to hardcore gamers and people that don't care for mario, zelda, and Metroid. Litterally they don't get personal 5.


This is just not true. Look at the 3DS games Atlus alone made. Some of those games, Etrian Odyssey to mention one are as hardcore as it gets. There's a new SMT game (possibly SMT5) that'll come probably early next year which will be a Switch exclusive too.
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ZombiePelican
04/10/17 9:47:42 AM
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green butter posted...
Once the AAA gaming bubble pops I think it will be PC gaming and shit like the Switch that survives

People like you have been saying this for more than a decade now, big publishers pull in billions every year AAA gaming isn't going anywhere
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DevsBro
04/10/17 9:48:58 AM
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I wish they cared about Metroid.

The last time they made a game that wasn't meant to kill the series, they made a game so bad that it actually did kill the series, and the last game they made before that was in 2007.
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glitteringfairy
04/10/17 9:50:36 AM
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Nintendrones on NintendoFAQs having a circle jerk and patting themselves on the back? I've certainly never seen this before!
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Ranting Nord
04/10/17 9:52:20 AM
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Once they have a breakthrough in battery technology, everything will go ultra portable.
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KYOJIROKAGENUMA
04/10/17 10:09:31 AM
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lol consoles leading gaming lol
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drunkmuggle
04/10/17 10:12:49 AM
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DevsBro posted...
I wish they cared about Metroid.

The last time they made a game that wasn't meant to kill the series, they made a game so bad that it actually did kill the series, and the last game they made before that was in 2007.

it's a dead series at this point, there are rumors they're going to make one for the switch but I won't believe them until something tangible shows up
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