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Nuvendil on 13 February 2017
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Intrinsic said:
jason1637 said:

Well i dont know tbh. The hardware isnt as powerful for those graphics and Nintendo sually dont make realistic games so i doubt it. Also the Sitch is definitly not a gen away because compared to the power of 7th gen consoles the Switch is way more power wise its a dumbed down xb1.

Unless I am mistaken, the NS is not as powerful as the wiiU undocked. And in its docked mode its a little more powerful. In its docked mode its around 500GF, even if we say its 600GF thats still not close to where the XB1 is when you also consider things like memory bandwidth and amount of memory too. I say its a gen behind because it simply lacks the power to run the versions of the current gen games. Or at least a majority of them. At least thats what i think, I could be mistaken though.

But what do I know. As for if it can make game look like horizon...etc. No, it can't. ANd I don't thinkits a coincidence that nintendo always goes for the artsy cartoonish style in their games. Its easier to hide however its lacking in the technical front. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with this. An artstyle is just that, and artstyle.

The Eurogamer leak concerning the power of the Switch is on shaky ground because of what we have seen from it so far indicating that it is a beefed up Wii U out of the dock, not a weaker Wii U out of the dock.  If the stats were as they say, Zelda should look and run worse out of the dock than the Wii U in the dock but every single report points in the opposite direction: it runs better and many say it even looks a bit better on the undocked Switch than on the Wii U.  

If we assume the Foxconn leak, which accurately predicted to a T many things you would have to be the luckiest man in the history of all existence to guess even half of them right, then it is actually a very marked improvement over the Wii U in the dock and a modest boost to the Wii U out of the dock.  

Edit: as for the whole home console vs handheld debate, I've said this before but I will repeat myself:  the Switch is somewhere in the middle, but leans more towards home console due to numerous design decisisions that directly and purposefully violate handheld design principles for the sake of bringing in home console features.  In other words, it sacrifices being a good handheld in order to have the feature set to be a console.  It is function, not form factor, that should define things that fall in the middle like this.  And the Switch's functionality points to a hybrid that leans more towards home console than handheld despite having elements of both.