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Volterra_90 on 22 December 2016
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Mowco said:

People need to stop using the stupid defense of " Dyou care so much about power get a PC/GTX1080"

It's a silly defense of the Switch's power, Just because you think the Switch is weak doesn't immediately mean, "Oh well if you care about power get a 1080" That's just really dumb.

Thinking the Switch should be more than 0.4 TFlops when used as a home console doesn't mean you're a power hungry maniac who won't settle for anything less then a 1080.

It just means you're not happy with a "home console" being inferior to machines released 3 and a half years before it.

The argument is equivalent to someone saying "That house is too small for me", and then the reply being "Oh well if all you care about is size then you should buy a mansion."

Stop blowing peoples requirements and standards out of proportion. I'm tired of this being the go-to argument for other Nintendo Fans when it makes zero sense.

 

There's nothing wrong with thinking 400Gflops isn't enough, and it certainly doesn't equate to "get a pc." It's a valid complaint.

I think those are valid complains if you care about power. I have another way of thinking though, which I think is valid, and it applies for some peoole saying that power isn't that important. I think that being an underpowered, cheap console would make it more accesible for casual gamers, who are now more aware of Nintendo's existence after the last months, when Nintendo pull some wins in marketing and smartphone business. What's important, games. If Switch is easy to develop for, that could mean more Ninty games without those awful WiiU droughts. I think that third parties, though welcome, will be irrelevant for Switch's sucess. More Ninty games and exclusives is what will say if Switch will be a win or not. Nintendo has to capitalize with its IPs. With a reduction of development time, that would be a given. And they can put a nice catalogue of exclusives, think about something like 3DS+WiiU combined. That would be dreamlike.