| Jranation said: I was thinking of this too! I feel like the "easy to port" rumor is true. |
Yeah. I never expected the Switch to reach PS4 level of power (though that would be amazing and is surely possible, but it would be an expensive system, which Nintendo most likely wants to avoid) but I always felt like close to or a little bit under Xbox One level would be fine and reasonable considering this is a portable and home console.
All reports thus far have made it clear that while it won't be as powerful, it will still be easy to port to and run ports on, so the system SHOULD at least be powerful enough to get third party games from the PS4 and Xbox One, which Digital Foundry's report seems to contradict with if these specs they are reporting on are true, which would mean that Emily Rogers and even Nvidia themselves that made the hardware were either wrong on that maybe the Switch is really weak but still somehow able to get ports? I don't even know. This should all be cleared up once the January event arrives in a few weeks from now.
It makes no sense for that to be the biggest list of developer support Nintendo has ever had, which the Wii U never even came close to in terms of support, if the Switch was truly just going to be significantly underpowered again, especially from developers like Bethesda who made it very clear they would only ever support the Switch if it was at least Xbox One level of power. Unless Nintendo worked out a deal with third parties or something. I expect the Switch to be weaker than both, hopefully close to the Xbox One, but not as weak as these specs are making it seem to be considering all the amount of developer support it has.
