curl-6 on 25 January 2017
| Louie said: Of course, if things besides the resolution are improved in the Switch version that would dampen the "Switch is hardly more powerful than the Wii U" narrative, so people don't believe it haha. |
Switch is more powerful than Wii U, but not massively so. Even docked, Mario Kart 8 appears to have no upgrades besides a bump to 1080p. Breath of the Wild runs at 900p docked. Both are the same resolution as the Wii U versions when portable.
Later software built from the ground up and with greater developer experience with the hardware should widen the gap a little, but it's still not a huge upgrade graphically.
And honestly, I'm fine with that. If games like Captain Toad Treasure Tracker managed to look as beautiful as they do on Wii U, hardware that's mildly more powerful should produce some very nice looking titles.
