An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 19, 2024
- March 18, 2024
- March 17, 2024
- March 16, 2024
- March 15, 2024
- March 14, 2024
- March 13, 2024
October 11, 2021 02:58 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720625/nintendo-64-switch-pal-region-60hz-50hz-confirmed-ntsc
Nintendo wont make Europeans play worse versions of N64 games on Switch
The Nintendo 64 games being re-released as part of the upcoming Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription will run at 60Hz, Nintendo of Europe has confirmed. The news follows concerns reported by Eurogamer that the re-released games, which include classic titles like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, would run at a reduced 50Hz in European PAL regions.
The disparity is a holdover from the days of standard definition TVs which typically used the 50Hz PAL standard in Europe, but the 60Hz NTSC standard in the US. It meant that footage shown on European TVs would refresh 50 times per second, rather than 60 as in the US. This wasn’t a major issue for regular TV content (which typically ran at 30fps in the US...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720625/nintendo-64-switch-pal-region-60hz-50hz-confirmed-ntsc
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
The Verge
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011More About this Source Visit The Verge