No, but it does decrease airflow, and is coupled with the smaller fan and portable form factor. Just another round of circumstances surrounding this that makes it significantly more involved that just "what has more RAM and hertz?"

I'll be back after I give Dark Souls a go on Switch.

One of the benefits of smaller fabrication processes is lower power demands, and hence less heat.

The Switch does have more muscle than the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. This shouldn't even be up for debate.

One of the biggest limitations last generation was Ram. Or lack there-of. Not exactly an issue on the Switch.

But damn is a big part of that story though.

The Switch isn't even a year old at this point, so it goes without saying that games will look better in several years time on the Switch, where-as the 7th gen consoles were pretty much tapped out.

Skyrim isn't leveraging all the visual effects the Switch can do either, but it certainly does leverage a vast majority of the Xbox 360's and Playstation 3's from a hardware feature set perspective.

I feel like it is slightly better than 7th gen, but well below 8th. Of course, it is really difficult for me to compare, as I've not played any game on Switch that I also played on XB or PS. We know for sure that it is well below PS4 and XB1, as there have been a ton of side-by-side comparisons. But, aside from Skyrim, there's not much in the way of AAA games to directly compare. Even with Skyrim, the comparisons aren't really fair, as the devs have the advantage of having ported the game and remastered it a whole bunch already.

For me though, it doesn't matter. I buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games. Nintendo, in turn, makes games that don't need cutting edge tech to look great. From what I've seen so far, the Switch does this job perfectly. (I will say that BotW certainly could have made use of better hardware. But, it was still beautiful in its own way.)

Oh I completely agree I remember people complaining this gen wasn't a jump at all and people see remastered games and are like nothing is different.....its like maybe you should go look back at what it used to look like haha
I know the Switch is technically more powerful and the only true test is if you had developers make the same game for Switch/ps3/360 ect which was done kinda with Skyrim and though ps3 looks pretty bad Switch and 360 version look pretty much the same.
I have much respect for them getting all games into the portable space.

On what do you base this? I am playing on the WiiU version , and most of the launch day bugs and slow downs have been fixed. The game is far more stable in frame rate than when it launched. When it is not, it is still a huge cut above this DF video of GTA V. 

Again, and I repeat: Is this your own observation, or do you go by word of mouth? If this is your observation, then be more specific. Where there is slowdown in Wii U, it is rare. Where it does happen, most gamers would be excused for finding it reasonable (it is not as if other games do not slow down here and there under AI or object load). 

I am not sure which update it was that fixed things, but now starting a new game is day and night in terms of the early game experience -- late game was more stable anyway.

I can cross compare on both Switch and Wii U. Aside from the slightly inferior visuals, both games nowadays run very well. If you nitpick BotW for its framerate, then you must at least be ready to extend fairly the same expectation down to the other games you compare.

I'll repeat, then: On what basis do you say this? Is it first hand? On my current run, after over 50 hours if playing, I still can remember slowdown occuring rarely, mostly when I was running the game during and right after launch period. I haven't experienced anything that suffocates the game down to 20 FPS for months. When and if it happened, the drop was momentary and absolutely nothing that I would not still find reasonable on any number of PS3/360 game.

You seem to have a massively skewed memory. Obsession with comparing everything to God of War 3 is disingenuous. Switch is still in its first year, and when we compare equivalent launch titles on PS3, the difference between the two systems becomes profound:

https://kotaku.com/the-ps3-had-12-games-at-launch-heres-what-they-looked-513396910

The moment you realize one system was the size of a small fridge, whereas the other is smaller or at least equivalent to a 7" tablet you have to be very impressed with how Switch performs. It's a handheld, after all.

Can it surpass PS3 in all circumstances? No. Cell could still do some nifty things that are impressive even today.

Oh, I thought by now everyone has heard about the gem which is Life of Black Tiger:

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/life-of-black-tiger-ps4/

https://youtu.be/w6NkNgI1ssw?t=4m25s

I thought I might have been exaggerating but, man I wasn't. And people say Godzilla looks bad. Thanks for giving it some comaprisons.