Digital Foundry: Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU clock speeds revealed

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spemanig said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

1) Wait what? Smash is on 3DS and Wii U. Stop it.

2) It is not about one game, I use that game as an example for me personally. You avoided my HD Pokemon argument because you know I have a point. All those titles getting HD upgrades and able to play on your television and on the go has a market, period. It has one against the rival consoles but more importantly, it has a place alongside those consoles (like 3DS has a home alongside those consoles). You are trying too hard to see it ONLY as a home console when it simply is not. It is a hybrid at best but mostly, it is a hand held. You are absolutely wrong and you know it. Hand held gaming is catching up to and will end up surpassing home console gaming. And the games are cheaper. All games sell to gamers, that is one big market. There are times when I have to decide between getting a PS4 game, a Wii U game, or a 3DS game. I cannot buy them all so... this means they are all competing for my money.

1. Smash 3DS isn't handheld software selling in a home console marketplace.

2. If you think $40 HD Pokemon Sun/Moon will help the Switch, without multiplats, reach 3DS numbers, I can't really help you either.

I'm seeing it for exactly what it is, and what it's competing with, like it or not, are home consoles. That's how it's being marketed and that what people are going to expect when it comes to software. $40 Pokemon is a AAA blockbuster on a handheld device, but cheap middleware on a home console, because it's not being compared to Yokai Watch and Daganrampa anymore, it's being compared to FFXV and DQ11. Unless Pokemon on the Switch evolves to fit the scale of its new platform, it's not going to do much of anything with regards to selling software, and at that point it won't be a handheld franchise anymore and it definitely won't be $40. Pokemon isn't some inpenetrable franchise. It's sales can drop like anyone else.

1) Then what is it? It has direct competition with a HOME CONSOLE TITLE of the same name and, as far as game play is concerned (with lesser graphics), parity. And despite its obvious (graphical) shortcoming, it slaughtered its console competition. Call it what you want to call it, I can tell you definitively that the way you are thinking is not productive to me but especially to yourself.

2) You not only avoided the majority of my points for a second time, but you sound stupid while doing it. You cannot dispute that there is a market for Switch because, there is. You can only speculate that games on the Switch will have to cost more because of a graphical upgrade (which may not be true), you think Pokemon has to change its formula or somehow upgrade in a way other than graphically in order to sell on any console (which is straight up insane), and you think games like Call of Duty, Dragon Quest, and whatever else comes out on another console will somehow disturb the sales of said Pokemon game (which it will not). Seiously, where do you get this idea from? Is it history? Cannot be there because there is no historical evidence that says any game will stop these games from selling. Is Pokemon not outselling COD right now? Even poor hardware sales do not stop many of these games from selling. I mean seriously, I have never seen one man in such denial about what a console really is and yet try to defend their position at the same time. It is time you admit you have a problem. You started out in ther threads calling the Switch a home console and now you have have devolved to saying it will compete with home consoles. You are wrong both ways. It is time for you to give it up. Nothing about this console says, "home console". You have to come to this realization before you can understand how insane, incorrect, and massively pathetic you sound. Please, and I am saying this in seriousness (not condescention), admit this is NOT a home console. Admit it and mean it. Once you start to view this console as a very strong hand held (which it obviously IS) with a couple of cool features and not as a home console (which it NEVER was), you will start to understand exactly how silly you have been sounding lately. And you will start to understand why I have been at odds with you recently. If you cannot do this, please get help. And I am dead serious, your denial is seriously troubling and it is preventing your growth in this area.