Apart from Tetris 99 and Switch Sports, I don't actually use my switch. I got one of the original switch runs that can be modded/hacked for a good deal on ebay, and I own TOTK on cart. I just ripped the whole shebang onto my PC because I refuse to play a AAA open world high end RPG at 720p 30fps. I've got TOTK running pretty flawlessly at 4k 60fps on my PC. Some areas have a dip, and there are a few weird issues, but overall it's such a better experience. On the switch itself, the occasional drops to sub 20fps were what I would call unplayable. If the new switch can use DLSS to keep framerates high, I'm all about it.

Thankfully, some of the huge pushes this generation are 120fps and variable refresh rate. I refused to get a PS5 until I had a monitor that could do those, as I'd be wasting the potential. 2 years ago I got the LG C1 48" OLED and it has been amazing for everything. No signs of burn in yet, and any weirdness is corrected by the automated 'pixel cleaning' routine.

Variable refresh rate (NVidia GSync and AMD Freesync) cannot be overemphasized. VRR is better at 40fps than raw 60-70fps, just because of the better frame timing consistency. No tearing, no judder, just an intelligent connection between monitor and GPU pipeline, syncing the current framerate to the monitor.

I think going with a specific AI upscaling algorithm for the new switch it'll be much harder to get consistent performance out of any emu-lators, and I think impossible without an nVidia GPU. As these 'AI' algorithms become more hardware dependent (chat GPT runs on NVidia), I think manufacturers are going to be able to sequester the market to the extreme determent of the consumers.

Even right now, wanna do AI locally? NVidia tensor cores. anything else? 1/3 that efficiency at best.

Fun thing, the word emu-lator without the dash still auto translates to "computer program of dubious legality". For the record (Mods), I did it all 100% legally and I own the hardware, I ain't no pirate.

I'm surprised no one is talking about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWWEKjiFLAM

Looks really good.   I hope they replace the music with X1-X3 style versions of the X8 tracks. 

That's disheartening to learn that it spews false information as factually accurate as possible, but I suppose it is what it is.

I agree that the artistic side seems much better at this point, as I've utilized it for photography edits and enhancing some old images to much better and larger quality. I've also enjoyed the various odd AI generated images, though they all seem to have a certain look to them that gives it away, assuming extra appendages aren't there like hands / feet / fingers.

If the new Switch does all that, I'm sold on it already. I'm hoping it'll be like the Xbox Series X and PS5 by granting additional power to older titles, assuming it even has backwards compatibility. I have a few games I wouldn't mind playing again if they don't end up chugging on performance issues. I think my only real experience with DLSS so far is with Palworld, which is some new game that just came out on Unreal 5 and didn't have any real hiccups at all from what I seen while also hitting a high refresh rate with no tweaking needed.

Speaking of gaming, there's a fun AI game that I hope goes on steam called "Suck Up!" that uses a form of AI to dictate the way NPCs interact while also using it to transcribe what one verbally says to said NPCs with a very high success rate. It gives me hope for some of the future games that people can craft with care behind them, though I've also seen crazy tech like from nVidia where they allow one to talk with various NPCs in games not designed for it such Cyberpunk. Crazy times we live in!

Asking any AI for anything subjective is gonna be a bad time. Have you compared the free perplexity results against Bard and GPT?

The scary thing is that in this day and age, 'objective' facts are being obfuscated by the media for clicks, and a lot of AI's will take any stated fact as fact. They aren't great at dealing with comparing and contrasting sources for the best result. AIs specialize in making anything it thinks is a fact sound like a fact.

Also, probably 90% of "AI" branded stuff is just a gimmick in a package. It's all just really stupid trained algorithms. Honestly, I think the artistic and visually interpretive aspects are the strongest right now. The 'AI' algorithm for NVidia's DLSS is so flippin' good. It's ability to upscale and interpolate new frames constantly surprises me. I have a 4K OLED monitor and if a game has DLSS, I'm hard pressed to see a difference between native and balanced. Here are the native render resolutions that get upscaled to 4K, for reference.

Quality: 2560x1440p
Balance: 2227x1253p
Performance: 1920x1080p
Ultra Perf: 1280x720p

It's good enough that the new Switch is going to be using the same 'Tensor AI' cores on the custom NVidia Tegra processor for upscaling, and I betcha it'll be downright competitive, as Sony and XBox both use AMD hardware, and use AMD FSR for upscaling. FSR is improving constantly, and it's nice to play God of War Ragnarok at 90fps, but if it was on NVidia I would barely notice the upscaling where FSR can have some really ugly artifacts. I hope that they add the new FSR 3 Frame Generation technology on consoles soon, as it will really breathe life into them as they age and games push further into the 30FPS max range without upscaling. FSR is generally inferior though, as it takes from the GPU overhead as it doesn't have specialized pipelines specifically for that kind of 'AI' upscaling work.

The R1 people surprised us all by giving us a free year of something called Perplexity Pro to mess with while we wait for our devices and wow, AI is stupid it seems. It cannot understand what I mean by worst / least selling Megaman games and pulls results from youtube as well as reddit thinking I'm asking about the worst game, so I'm getting all kinds of bad data. One of the results even had sell numbers and stated BN4 was the worst selling BN game despite it selling the most in its respective series, and I even got X1 was stated as the worst selling MM game with like 1.16M units sold.

This has been with the "free" version thus far, since if I redeem the $200 yearly one then I may not be able to return or cancel my Rabbit R1 order, but I'm not impressed at all. It's just giving me google searches and pulling stuff like a wiki article as response on this Perplexity AI thing. The R1 is supposed to have Pro built in for free, but I can't imagine it being better than what I'm getting at this point in time.

Semi-related, but it links directly to MMM when I asked it about Megaman Matrix, though it was going on about fangames and fanfics instead of the website itself. I know, I'm creatively bankrupt on what to use AI for.

In a manner of speaking, of course.

This is heartwarming.

That would imply you have a heart.

It would be nice if Udon or some other company handles translating it like the other books in the series, as the artwork was stellar for X DiVE, even if the entire purpose was to sell JPEGs for Capcom yacht money. I'd love to learn a bit more about the game's development side and how they came up with certain choices or designs.

The artbook has images for Violen, Eregion, Eyezard (mini boss from X4), Incentas, and Mosquitos (Miniboss in X3)

Pay pig ahoy!