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curl-6 on 13 February 2020
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SpokenTruth said:
curl-6 said:

If anything I find the opposite far more common, the whole "it looks great on the small screen but not so much when you blow it up on a big TV". 

I very doubt anyone would be complaining if in docked mode the GPU ran 20% faster at the Shield's 921MHz clock, allowing for better resolutions in TV mode, where it's more often compared unfavorably to stronger TV-only consoles.

As a I said, this very thread already gave portable mode a negative aspect against the current docked option.  Imagine how more negative it would be if the disparity were larger.

I don't see anyone bashing portable mode. And this is just one small thread on a niche enthusiast forum, its hardly indicative of how the wider consumer base sees the situation. I can't imagine there'd be many complaints at all if Switch stayed as it was in portable mode but ran just a little better when docked. 

So I don't see that as a plausible explanation at all, Nintendo must have had some other incentive to downclock the GPU below the Shield in docked mode. Maybe just to play it on the super safe side in terms of longevity and overheating?