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curl-6 on 03 January 2017
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Trumpstyle said:

Switch is underclocked 50 % which they had to otherwise it would throttle in portable mode 

The fully clocked X1 runs at 1GHz, so Switch runs at just 30% of that when portable.

 

dahuman said:
Pemalite said:

You can have both power and exclusives. They aren't mutually exclusive.

The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 were "high-end" relative to the PC.
The Playstation 4 and Xbox One are mid-range relative to the PC.
The Switch will likely get beaten by Integrated Graphics, thus lower than low-end relative to the PC.

Yet Nintendo hasn't disappointed me in exclusives so I have their hardwares but that's beside the point, you are comparing it to the wrong things, no ARM tablet on the market can compete with PC power, even if the Switch is running an X1, it's still mid-high tier when mobile power and power consumption are concerned. The game changed somewhat when we realised that the Switch is also a portable device and not a full time plugged-in device.

The issue is not that its running an X1, the issue is that its clockspeed has been absolutely crippled.