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Faelco on 20 October 2016
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padib said:
GOWTLOZ said:

This logic doesn't make sense. New games would require sufficient hardware power. If it does have enough power it will get many PS4 and XB1 games not all as its a handheld, but if it doesn't have enough power developers wouldn't be able to port their games.

As you said it will sell to existing Nintendo fans but there is less reason for anyone else to buy old games on it unless they want it on a portable. That's something I personally do want, but not Skyrim :P

We're not in that game anymore of "Not enough power". The Switch is probably on par with a regular PS4, so it has more than enough power to get ports that work on the Switch.

The PS4 and PS4 Pro have to satisfy the least common denominator. The Switch is in that game now so your argument is not useful anymore.

The important word here is "probably". We don't know. The rumors (which were right about everything so far) talked about a console less powerful than an Xbox One, maybe even a lot less powerful.

What I'm really interested in is the power in handheld mode and the development needed for the home>handheld transition. If you need another version of your game for the handheld mode, it could really limit the 3rd party games. Because no, the handheld Switch won't have a PS4 power. It would already be great if it had a Wii U power. And no, "just a few effects less" is not enough to port a PS4 game on Wii U. It's easy to port handheld games on the Switch, but we lack information about the home console games ports on the Switch handheld. I wouldn't be surprised if some games were unplayable (officially or not... 10 fps games incoming?) in handheld mode.