Nintendo: Switch dock only for charging and TV-out

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LipeJJ said:

JRPGfan said:

The old rumors where 3-4 times the power of the Wii U.

Pretty sure when its docked it ll be more powerfull than the Wii U.

Im guessing that means it turns out to be slightly less than half the Xbox One S, in terms of performance.

So multiplats will run lesser resolutions than the do on the normal Xbox One, on the Switch.

Well, at least it's reasonably more powerful than Wii U, so it's still an increase. But half of the XB1S? That's bad. I mean, as a portable that freaking amazing, but as a console it's pretty underwhelming. I wonder how we're going to play multiplat games at the TV... at this rate, they'd have would run at 540p? Hopefully not.

Still crossing my fingers that it will be at least close to XB1. I know it's asking a lot for a hybrid, but I'm still rooting for that. :c

Honestly, if Nintendo can't get it to be as strong as the PS4 when 'docked', then they shouldn't call it 'primarily' a home console because the lack of power when you compare it to consoles that were considered obselete three years ago just makes the NS look like a big disappointment regardless of its portability.  At the same time, I also know why they don't want to advertise it as a handheld since they're still trying to sell the 3DS.