Specs for the Switch 2 seem to be somewhere between the PS4 Pro and PS5, rather than between the PS3 and PS4.
Folks that think piracy will be the answer show a shocking lack of understanding of how emulation works. Like, literally “the Switch is easy to emulate therefore the Switch 2 will be easy to emulate, after all, all they did was add a 2” level of understanding.
Have you ever seen what the average savings a person in those days were?
Have you ever looked into what the average amount of disposable income people had back then was?
Wages have not kept up with cost of living increases and inflation.
The games market is exponentially bigger and more profitable now, the cost of media is much lower, you don't get a big colorful box, you don't get a manual, they didn't have DLC back then, they didn't endlessly rereleasse/remaster the same games over and over again, they couldn't charge for online back then, they couldn't charge for voice chat, Nintendo didn't have massive store chains and themeparks back then, they didn't have movies making them into the billions and the list goes on and on. Why have accessories gotten so expensive? Why is a very average Switch 2 pro controller 80, when it can't hold a candle to a ps5 controller, my favorite controller in history and I don't even own a PS5.
Have you ever seen what the average savings a person in those days were?
No idea how old you are, but things weren't smooth sailing for everyone. Also, $80 at that time is now $200+ and the minimum wage was like $3.50. In my opinion, having a console at that time was a luxury.
I get that inflation has gotten bad, but pretending $80 wasn't a lot for a game as absolutely insane. And thinking Nintendo would be the "good guys" is also insane.
I feel like they would have mentioned if there was RT in the games, but I could be wrong. It most definitely has Tensor cores though for DLSS.
At least some modern games though (namely just Indiana Jones for now) REQUIRE hardware-accelerated RT capabilities to run. So perhaps you're right and they actually future-proofed this thing to some degree.
Now it's clear that switch 2 is not going to be as easy to emulate
Switch was rushed console due to failure of the Wii U and that's why it is underpowered even for it's time, now nindento got 8yrs to develop switch 2 with all the things they learned from switch
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u/Sprite_Bottle 1d ago
$80? I thought you said 2 whole internet doubloons 🏴☠️