Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
We don't know that. As a matter of fact I think the main reason why the Switch does not (apparently) run at full clock even while docked is for a very good reason.
Some games may be able to be ported, some games may not be able to be ported, some games may require to be built specifically for the Switch to run.
Getting a game to run on a 5 watt device that was made to run on a 60 watt system at minimum is not an easy task even if you have similar engines. An iPhone 6 has Unreal Engine 4 too, that doesn't mean you can get all the XBox One/PS4 Unreal Engine 4 games running on it.
I think this was already a problem Nintendo ran into even getting Switch games to run on the same exact chip, just at different power envelopes, I think they ran into a problem in that the full clock Tegra X1 is too much more powerful than the acceptable 5 watt portable mode limit. So the balance the system they were forced to take the Tegra X1 and downclock it to 768 MHz even for docked mode.
The reason being is it keeps a smaller 2.5 to 1 ratio from undocked to docked mode, there's no reason to gimp the docked version of the Switch otherwise, especially because they have the fan in there to boot. But they had to downclock the docked mode because it was too much for the undocked mode to keep up with.
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Of Course we know that, devs can make PS4 game running on PS3 if they want, you have Tomb Raider Rising (thats full next gen game) running on XB1 and Xbox360, and for instance Wii received Xbox360/PS3 port of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. And Switch is much closer with tech/architecture and power to XB1/PS4 than Xbox360 is or Wii was to PS3/Xbox360, so your point about 5 watt device means nothing. Evre game can be ported to almost any platform, at end of day, all comes to money, if they devs think it will paidof porting game to some some platform. Like producer of Mass Effect Andromeda already stated, if they were certain that game would have solid sales of Switch we would have Switch version of game already, but for now they leave open door for that.
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OK, sure, yeah if you're using that liberal of definition, then sure. I mean you could have Mass Effect Andromeda on the 3DS even.
