Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

[Goodnightmoon]

potato_hamster said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Why? On my PC I can downgrade most of those things, why can't the devs put a lower level on some/all of those while undocked?

Because console games are heavily optimized specifically for the hardware they're ran on. Games will run worse on the switch if game engines have to be designed to constantly have to check the operating mode of the device rather than just use hardcoded values. It's the same reason PS4 games run and look better on the PS4 than games on similarly spec'd PCs.

They can optimize it for both modes, find the way to optimize it the best possible way while docked and then try to downgrade different parts until it works fine undocked then set that configuration to be used automatically when the game is undocked.