| superchunk said: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nintendo-switch-spec-analysis Yep. This is certainly a surprise to me. To those I've been arguing with lately, yep I was wrong. I really expected it to be on par with a standard X1 and then up-ticked a bit but nothing crazy. This is a little saddening. |
Well kudos to actually admitting you were wrong.... others would have lived and died by their theories.
I'm not surprised here tho, and had been saying it for a while. The form factor was the giveaway. And as the DF video pointed out, if you want any kinda mobile performance you are limited by how much power the system can draw right off the bat.
Then there were other cues like LPDDR4 which is the kinda memory used in smartphones specifically for their much lower power draw.
This all basically means that the Switch is first and foremost a handheld conosle. With a 1Ghz CPU and a 300Mhz GPU. Make no mistake, every game made for the switch will be optimized primarily with those specs in mind. In doccked mode they can easily get whatever they accomplished in mobile mode uprezed to look better on a 1080p screen. But everything about the console including its memory size had always screamed that this was a 720p console at heart.
