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bonzobanana on 07 December 2016
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JEMC said:
Miyamotoo said:

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).

Wii U was capable of running Nintendo games at 1080p@60fps like Smash Bros proved, and if Mario Kart and 3DWorld didn't do that was more because Nintendo didn't cared for it rather than the console not being capable.

So Switch being capable of running Nintendo games at 1080p is the minimum one should ask for. It's ports of PS4/X1 that will be interesting to see.

Smash Bros was not technically demanding. Mario kart was 720p at 60fps with no anti-aliasing and looked awful on a projector. I'm sure Nintendo would have gone with better graphics if it was capable of it but it wasn't. Some games on wii u are lower resolution than 360 and ps3 like sonic racing and many 2D games like rayman legends can run at 1080p 60fps on wii u, ps3 and 360 because of lower performance demands. The wii u has a 176 gflops gpu and poor cpu performance, low memory bandwidth and no hard drive and its often a struggle to get games working well on the console unless a 2D game or something with low cpu demands.