Soundwave said:
I don't think the NS will be "powerful enough to run most games" though.
It's telling that the demo video they chose to show Skyrim running on it (a upgraded port of a 5 year old game) and not The Witcher 3 or Fallout 4.
Why would they do that? Probably because the system can't really run The Witcher 3 acceptably.
It's a tiny portable form factor, it's not going to produce miracles, there only so much heat you can pump into an area that small before it melts even with an active fan. Not to mention battery life pretty much will cap off the unit at probably 10-12 watts max and that all cannot just be the GPU, the LCD screen, WiFi, CPU, etc. need access to power too. There's only so much you can do with 10-20 watts (docked) maximum. Even the Wii U itself consumes 33 watts.
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Yeah, the portable form factor will prevent Switch from considerably outpacing Wii U graphically. Even if (and that's a big if) it has some kind of turbo mode when docked, all its games are still going to have to be able to run in portable mode, so aside from maybe a bump in resolution/framerate, the core graphics aren't going to really take advantage of any potential boost the dock may provide.
The technology to fit PS4/X1 graphics into a portable like the one the Switch trailer showed is still a few years away.
