• slimerancher@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, you need a balance when launching new hardware. Most people, specially Nintendo players, don’t care about OLED vs LCD that much. So, cheaper > OLED.

    That being said, I am not trusting any rumours, or even checking them out, so don’t know what the article says, but if they do go with LCD, this could be the reason.

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      1 year ago

      The rumor basically claims the dev kits have an LCD screen, it could be subject to change, but developers need to know how their games will look like on the screen, so if it’s true the kits have this screen, then the console most likely will have it too.

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        1 year ago

        Are developers that picky? If they are releasing their game on any other console or PC, the game has to look good on everything from a 2024 top of the line 5k display to a 720p LCD TV with the color saturation set to 200%.

        Besides, this is a pre-release dev kit. I am sure that Nintendo cared more about nailing down the CPU, GPU, and memory. I am sure that they will send updated hardware to devs closer to release. If they suddenly switch to an OLED display, it is probably not too much work for a developer to adjust the colors in their game.

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      1 year ago

      If the console is to be 99% of the time attached to the living room tv, the inbuded screen matters almost zero.

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        1 year ago

        I use my switch in portable mode near exclusively, 1080p SDR (and usually the games run at way lower than that) are not pretty on a 65” 4K hdr OLED tv. I think most people buy the switch because of the portable experience and rarely use it on a tv unless playing Mario party or something like that.

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          1 year ago

          That may be your experience, my partner and I use it co-op on every game that has it and watch each other play singleplayer, so it’s almost never out of the dock. I imagine many families with multiple kids and not enough budget to get everyone their own would do the same.

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          1 year ago

          ‘Most people’ don’t have 65” 4K HDR OLED TVs. Also, from my personal experience a ton of people use the dock functionality extensively.

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        1 year ago

        That’s how I use mine. Only time it leaves the dock is when I have to change a tiny microscopic game wafer and hope to God I don’t drop the thing.