Rollback netcode, but at a hardware level?
What if your controller could sense your next move? That’s hardly science fiction—after all, rollback netcode is used in many leading fighting games to do just that—but a patent has been spotted by Tom’s Guide and Game Rant which hints that Nintendo could look to include it in Switch 2 at a hardware level.
The patent was filed by the Japanese company in August 2024 and published on January 23rd of this year. It appears to be a system that tracks button presses and directional movements with the goal of predicting the next possible input sequence.
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