I wonder if they ever realise how much money they could make by releasing PC versions of their games.
Tears of the Kingdom is great, but I can’t help but think how good it would look running in full 4K 60fps on a 55" OLED, with a controller that doesn’t disconnect every five minutes.
A controller disconnecting every 5 minutes is not Nintendo like. I have never had any issues with wireless Nintendo controllers. Not on my own system or others.
Ye. The control sticks issue is beyond stupid. I switched to hall effect sticks on two pairs. Its crazy you have to be able to disassemble and rebuild your joy-cons if you want them for more than 2 years max.
Nintendo made it hell getting them fixed. No way I have the receipt for a consol I bought over the counter 3-4 years ago. Also there is a 5 year guarantee on them where I live, so why would i even need the receipt anyway. Just fix your trash Nintendo.
Any tips for eliminating the stutter, or increasing the smoothness of the emulation? I’ve got an i7-12700k, 4090, and 64GB of ram and it seems to struggle a bit.
I think that’s just the shader caching being rendered isn’t it? I know totk has some caching that can be pre downloaded but I believe it still is cached when you are running the game. I think it stabilizes after a bit but I had trouble getting ryujinx and yuzu working so I opted for the cemu (wii I) route.
As if Nintendo would actually do this. They’d do it like other Japanese developers 15 years ago: windowed 1280x720, no graphics settings, no keyboard support, no quit-to-desktop button.
Playing Persona 5 Strikers now and I’ve just gotten into the habit of opening the Steam overlay and hitting Exit Game. Yes, Atlus, very cute and stylish menu animations, but please let me quit your games within 15 seconds.
Going off on a slight tangent, but what display/audio setup do you have that the Switch doesn’t work with? It’s just HDMI, like everything else these days.
i’m using it at my desk where i have one USB-DAC for my speakers and one for my headphones connected to my PC.
that means i have to switch my monitor from DP to HDMI every time i want to play a game (using samsung’s nipple tech), as well as either running my speakers through a splitter cable hooked up the wrong way to get PC and switch audio, or have the switch on my speakers while having the PC on headphones.
way too much hassle, plus i can lose my cursor on the right screen where the switch is, as well as having to blindly drag apps from there as they start. plus i completely miss incoming desktop messages.
and yes, i watch youtube while playing games. that’s why i need PC audio.
Exactly - people buy Nintendo hardware just so they can play Nintendo games. Keeping the games exclusive is utilizing artificial scarcity to keep demand flowing into the money makers, and to keep their hardware & accessories division operational (which is important because they are the money makers).
It’s also why they cracked down on roms once they started an online store: The inaccessibility traps the pressure for demand, so that people seize the opportunity to buy re-releases of 30-year old games. They release these games with no meaningful updates, so they have no edge over piracy unless they can make piracy even more inconvenient than going through their store.
Nintendo demands full control over its IP because it uses that control to make a lot of money. They may operate differently than other companies but it’s not because they’re wacky and foreign. It’s because they run an extremely by-the-books operation, and it has a track record of being extremely profitable for them. Their competitors are much more likely to try new ideas and to take on risks like brand dilution, debt financing, etc. While Nintendo wants to be that theme park that has a monopoly on visitor expenditures - the rides but also the meals, the hotels, parking, etc. They want total pricing command from the moment a customer dips their toes in. The Apple of the gaming world.
Of course I loathe most of these practices, but Nintendo is probably one of the most rational actors in the entire world.
I wonder if they ever realise how much money they could make by releasing PC versions of their games.
Tears of the Kingdom is great, but I can’t help but think how good it would look running in full 4K 60fps on a 55" OLED, with a controller that doesn’t disconnect every five minutes.
A controller disconnecting every 5 minutes is not Nintendo like. I have never had any issues with wireless Nintendo controllers. Not on my own system or others.
Everything else is true.
Usually I’d agree, but the Joycons are not their finest hour at all.
They’re just unreliable enough for me to be unable to trust them. Connected to the Switch, they’re fine.
Ye. The control sticks issue is beyond stupid. I switched to hall effect sticks on two pairs. Its crazy you have to be able to disassemble and rebuild your joy-cons if you want them for more than 2 years max.
Nintendo made it hell getting them fixed. No way I have the receipt for a consol I bought over the counter 3-4 years ago. Also there is a 5 year guarantee on them where I live, so why would i even need the receipt anyway. Just fix your trash Nintendo.
I don’t need to imagine it. I own the game and it looks like crap compared to it running on yuzu on PC. 4K 60fps is the way. Can’t go back.
Any tips for eliminating the stutter, or increasing the smoothness of the emulation? I’ve got an i7-12700k, 4090, and 64GB of ram and it seems to struggle a bit.
I think that’s just the shader caching being rendered isn’t it? I know totk has some caching that can be pre downloaded but I believe it still is cached when you are running the game. I think it stabilizes after a bit but I had trouble getting ryujinx and yuzu working so I opted for the cemu (wii I) route.
Thinking about it, Nintendo is now the only company without PC versions of their games, the only one that thinks they compete with PC.
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On the contrary, I suspect they don’t port their games to PC because they don’t think they compete with PC.
That might change with the prevalence of the Steam Deck and other gaming targeted handheld PCs.
As if Nintendo would actually do this. They’d do it like other Japanese developers 15 years ago: windowed 1280x720, no graphics settings, no keyboard support, no quit-to-desktop button.
Playing Persona 5 Strikers now and I’ve just gotten into the habit of opening the Steam overlay and hitting Exit Game. Yes, Atlus, very cute and stylish menu animations, but please let me quit your games within 15 seconds.
When Elden Ring released a patch that added quit to desktop I was so happy. Except I never used it, Because I was so used to not having it.
Well at least Durante will have something to fix in his spare time.
That would require effort…which Nintendo is not familiar with
but then nintendo wouldn’t be able to shove tons of 6-7 year old hardware down our throats. (the 1st gen’s processor is even older)
i literally own a switch, but getting that fucking thing to work with my display/audio setup is a pain. just to get 1080p at 30fps.
no thanks, i’d rather play it at 1440p at a more stable framerate, with a controller of my choice, with the ability to load mods.
Going off on a slight tangent, but what display/audio setup do you have that the Switch doesn’t work with? It’s just HDMI, like everything else these days.
i’m using it at my desk where i have one USB-DAC for my speakers and one for my headphones connected to my PC.
that means i have to switch my monitor from DP to HDMI every time i want to play a game (using samsung’s nipple tech), as well as either running my speakers through a splitter cable hooked up the wrong way to get PC and switch audio, or have the switch on my speakers while having the PC on headphones.
way too much hassle, plus i can lose my cursor on the right screen where the switch is, as well as having to blindly drag apps from there as they start. plus i completely miss incoming desktop messages.
and yes, i watch youtube while playing games. that’s why i need PC audio.
There’s a PC port of BOTW with unlocked frame rates, higher render distances (clouds and fog turned off) and 4K textures and it’s GLORIOUS
PC port or emulated using Cemu or Yuzu/Ryujinx?
Yes
Nintendo is a toy company. They sell plastic. For the last thirty-odd years, video games have been their primary means of doing so.
They don’t care about that, they want to move their consoles, that’s why they’re completely exclusive.
Chances are you don’t have every other platform and buy games for your Nintendo console.
Anybody can hate on them, but they know business.
Exactly - people buy Nintendo hardware just so they can play Nintendo games. Keeping the games exclusive is utilizing artificial scarcity to keep demand flowing into the money makers, and to keep their hardware & accessories division operational (which is important because they are the money makers).
It’s also why they cracked down on roms once they started an online store: The inaccessibility traps the pressure for demand, so that people seize the opportunity to buy re-releases of 30-year old games. They release these games with no meaningful updates, so they have no edge over piracy unless they can make piracy even more inconvenient than going through their store.
Nintendo demands full control over its IP because it uses that control to make a lot of money. They may operate differently than other companies but it’s not because they’re wacky and foreign. It’s because they run an extremely by-the-books operation, and it has a track record of being extremely profitable for them. Their competitors are much more likely to try new ideas and to take on risks like brand dilution, debt financing, etc. While Nintendo wants to be that theme park that has a monopoly on visitor expenditures - the rides but also the meals, the hotels, parking, etc. They want total pricing command from the moment a customer dips their toes in. The Apple of the gaming world.
Of course I loathe most of these practices, but Nintendo is probably one of the most rational actors in the entire world.
You’re not wrong. Nintendo is a dirtbag, greedy as fuck company. They make some excellent games, but they’re the epitome of financial parasites.
Yeah the joycons are terrible but Ive never had an issue with the pro controller.