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maxleresistant said:
Ck1x said:

Funny that you should say this because after watching many YouTuber's videos on the NYC Switch event, most if not all off the ones I've seen stated that BoTW seemed to run even better in handheld mode. Also we now know from Aonuma's interview with Eurogamer that BoTW was only decided to come to the Switch last April, which really makes this game nothing more than a WiiU port.

It's not in anyway indicative of what actual games created for the Switch from the ground up will look or run like overall. Plus there's a quote from a Nintendo rep that they are still targeting 1080p for the docked launch of Zelda. As far as the CPU being weaker than the XbOne, enough people on NeoGaf have done breakdowns of showing how Arm cpu's can compete with the Jaguar setup in the XbOne and PS4.

Nobody said it BOTW runs better, they said the game is more beautiful on the screen rather than the TV, because the small size of the screens helps hiding problems like the lack of Anti Aliasing. Also it's always more impressive to see the same game run on a handheld, it's kind of a Wow Factor, the Switch is the most powerful handheld ever made, so of course people are impressed to see a true home console Zelda run on a handheld.

What you call a "rep" is a dude that is hired from agencies to be at events and great and host, they know pratically nothing besides their personnal knowledge and what Nintendo told them before the event. Nintendo never confirmed the 1080p. 

And finally, no, the Arm Cpu can't compete, not without a proper cooling, this is a handheld, it's small, the cooling fan is small too. Yes on paper the cpu cool compete, if the Switch was a normal console, it the components were in something the size and shape of a WiiU, with a proper powersource, they could draw a lot more power from the components. But it's not the case.

So again, go back to earth, Switch is underpowered as a home system. It's the reality. There is nothing more to say about it.

Not sure where you get your information from but their are actual cpu benchmarks that show core for core Arm a72 let alone a57 cpu's have better performance than that of Jaguar cores. I know you're just being defensive when talking about the Nintendo rep stuff, because I've watched enough Tree house live to know that I've seen some of those people playing games on the show.

No one is claiming that it's equal in power to that of XbOne or PS4, but you stated that the handheld mode would hold the system back. We are simply telling you of instances where people playing on the device haven't noticed that to be a problem. Of course we will have to wait until more games that aren't ports are shown running on the hardware...