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Miyamotoo on 06 December 2016
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Captain_Yuri said:
Miyamotoo said:

I am pretty sure that almost all Nintendo games will run at 1080p, I dont think that will be case for XB1/PS4 ports.

Well yea, I can see that hence what I said in my first post... If it's not universal and only limited to Nintendo games, then I can see it but if the rumor means universally, then I don't see it. But no where did you or the rumor specify it will be limited to Nintendo games so...

I didn't said it will be limited only to Nintendo games, but I almost sure that will be case for almost all Nintendo games, that would be case even for some 3rd party games (Just Dance, Lego...), but not for majority of XB1/PS4 games.

 

JEMC said:
Barkley said:

It's not so much a power issue as a display issue. No matter how demanding the game the Handheld can only ever display at 720p (the display resolution of the screen). So it doesn't matter if the dock literally does nothing in terms of power, it still makes running the games at 1080p possible.

Like you I don't think the power difference when docked will be significant enough to make a game that barely runs at 720p on handheld suddenly run at 1080p fine when docked. The difference in resolution will mostly be simply because the Switch's own screen is only 720p.

The rumored hardware specs make that very unlikely... at least for non Nintendo games.

Miyamotoo said:

Actually most sense makes that games running at 1080p but they are downscaled to 720p just in tablet mode.

That doesn't make sense at all.

Running at 1080p is more demanding than doing it at 720p, and uses more power. For a portable device it makes a lot more sense to run at the native resolution of the display to improve battery life.

Barkley already corrected me, Switch will render games at 720p even has more power than just for 720p games. Basically, fact that Switch will run games at 720p in tablet mode doesn't mean it has power just for 720p games, and that with boost of higher clocks can run same games at 1080p in docked mode (for record I talking about Nintendo games).