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Faelco on 20 October 2016
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padib said:
Faelco said:

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.

You're worrying too much. Honestly.

That's what some people said when we asked the same type of questions about the Wii U, the Xbox One launch or the Steam machines. We still have no real information about the Switch, just the concept we learned about months ago. Just saying "Hey guys, look at our kinda cool concept! Come back later for the price, the SKUs, the specs..." shouldn't be enough for eveyone to overhype this console. We don't have any real news, so we should still be asking the same questions: how does it work, how well does it work, which games, for how long, and for how much? None of these questions were answered today. I'm not worrying (I don't plan on buying a new console for years so none of it should impact me), I'm just curious and I like to really analyze the consoles and what can make a success or a failure. Until now, it's still unclear and everyone is overhyping and predicting the success of a box we still know almost nothing about.