Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:12PM (#32826252)

I have a 10 year old i5 and it struggles with my 10,000 SPM mega base. So I don’t think a switch is a device for building mega bases (Factorio points this out themselves).

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by fredley on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:23PM (#32826410)

Perhaps there's a higher percentage among the HN readership, but the number of people who make it to 'just' a 1kSPM base is very small indeed as a fraction of the playerbase. Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by duskwuff on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:11PM (#32827197)

> Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!

One caveat is that Steam achievements are only granted to players who don't have any mods enabled. There's probably a nontrivial number of players who have only completed the game with mods.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:52PM (#32826864)

It's a serious amount of both learning and building so I can imagine that a stat like that is true.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Comevius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:46PM (#32826766)

It's probably memory throughput and latency more than single core performance in your case. Factorio is primarily limited by CPU cache misses. It ticks 50% faster on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D than on an 5800X because of the extra 64 MB L3.

Needless to say the Switch won't fare well for mega bases with it's 2 MB L2.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:53PM (#32826891)

Wow, that's interesting[0] as I'm planning to replace the 10 year old i5 with something new to run my mega bases at 60 UPS.

[0]: https://factoriobox.1au.us/results/cpus?map=d3c52cb60a225a29...

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Comevius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:38PM (#32827618)

There will be at least one Zen 4 CPU with 3D cache coming this year, with DDR5-6000 it will be the belle of the Factorio ball.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Melatonic on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:50PM (#32827834)

I wonder if I should upgrade my old ass intel 5820k (looks like it has 15mb "smart cache") to the basically just as old 6950x with a whopping 25mb

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:08PM (#32828872)

My i5 4670K does like 107 on 6MB of cache. Whereas a modern CPU does double that.

https://factoriobox.1au.us/results/cpus?map=4c5f65003d84370f...

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by xani_ on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:43PM (#32827710)

NGL, performance in Factorio and Dwarf Fortress will probably be criteria for when I will be upgrading my rig.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by clowen on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:23PM (#32827370)

You'd be surprised how much efficiency an engineering team can squeeze out of their games with time and motivation. A lot of bloat happens just to get the game out the door and is then good enough.

While I didn't work on the port itself, the effort that went into the Doom Eternal switch port paid off pretty well. https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2021-doom-eternal-s...

I'm hopeful that working with Nintendo would provide the time, money, and expertise needed to put the effort into making this a solid port.

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