Veknoid_Outcast said:
Pemalite said:
Vita is old and inadequate in 2017. It's not a good comparison point to use.
Mobile Phones (Cell Phones for the Yanks) are not only more powerful than the Switch but can get competitive battery life. - Decent handsets can avoid thermal issues.
This is why the Switch is terrible from a hardware perspective, I can do a technical breaddown for you if you desire?
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And how is it not inadequate for a console? The Xbox One when it released was already trending towards the lower-end of the mid-range market in comparison to the PC.
It's been years since that device launched and it was ridiculed for it's lack of power.
The Switch is going to be a fraction of that capability. A fraction. Think about that for a moment.
The WiiU whilst a large jump over the Wii was only marginally better than the decade old Xbox 360, having it better than that isn't some kind of achievement, mobile eclipsed that level of performance a long time ago.
JXD has the S192 "Gamepad Tablet" with a Tegra K1, I wouldn't be surprised if it was faster than the Switch, yet also gets 6-10 hours of battery life like my older JXD Gamepad.
The point is, I am displeased with Nintendo's terrible hardware choices, I am a hardware enthusiast, I want companies to give their best.
Nintendo could have made better hardware choices... And that fact cannot be disputed.
If they can give it to me cheaper without the screen, battery, detachable controls, dock, all at a super-low Ouya-like price point? I will be happy with that. I don't want to pay hundreds for such a low-powered device when my Phone is clearly superior in every single aspect.
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I appreciate your enthusiasm for high-end hardware, and respect your consistency when it comes to that topic.
But there are just no compelling commercial reasons for Nintendo to invest in high-end tech. None of its studios or partners need it. The third parties that require it don't have an audience on Nintendo systems. And it would make the system more expensive, more timely and costly to develop for, and far less desirable as an impulse buy.
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Yeah you don't think of Game Freak, EAD, IS, Good Feel, HAL, and others and think of them using high-end tech. They have beautiful games respectively, but mostly through design and aesthetics, not power. And for the most part, it's not in their DNA to spend $50-100 million on ALL of their big projects. BotW is not necessarily the new norm in terms of Nintendo making big games. You can still be ambitious without spending so much in production. I mean fans ask Game freak to make a Pokemon MMO when they haven't really experienced developing HD gaming yet and the main series is far from over (do you really want to create a cluster;$&@ of Pokémon that could eventually go to the thousands?). They could do eventually but it's probably not in the cards at the moment since they've put the main games on handhelds since the franchise started.
