Steep will benchmark Nintendo Switch power

[h2ohno]

potato_hamster said:

h2ohno said:

Nothing I've said is contradictory.  We can tell more from whether the port is good than we can from whether the port is bad.  And the fact that it is started on more powerful hardware is also more relevant to the discussion of the Switch's capabilities than games brought over from the Wii U.

Why? And please feel free to get as technical as you like. I can keep up.

It's already a given that the Switch is more powerful than the WiiU.  A big concern with 3rd parties is whether the Switch can handle current gen multiplats and how big the downgrade would be if those multiplats come.  The fact that Splatoon 2 doesn't look any better than Splatoon 1 at this point is a sign that Nintendo didn't bother to improve the engine so they could make other changes and still get the game out 2 years after the first 1, not that the Switch can't handle better graphics than Splatoon 1.  If Steep, a recent PS4 game, runs well on Switch and doesn't look too much worse than on PS4/PC, then that tells us without a doubt that the Switch is powerful enough to run these kinds of games.  But if it doesn't do those things, then it may be because the Switch isn't powerful enough, or it may be because the game was rushed.  We are waiting on baited breath for that kind of news, not whether Splatoon will have better anti-aliasing than on Wii U or Zelda will reach 1080p.  It would be nice if they did, but that isn't what will make or break the system.