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I didn't see any games looking like they are running on something 80% the power of the Xbox One.

But let's say it is;, you have to remember that the real graphical capabilities of the switch, are dictated by the handheld mode.

EVERY GAME has to run in handheld mode, meaning that the dock mode will be able to improve stuffs like framerate, resolution, or maybe have more players playing on one system. But don't expect the dock mode to be used at its full capacity. One other way to say it is that games are kind of developed for the handheld mode, then upgraded for the docked mode. They are not build for the dock mode, then downgraded for the handheld mode

Let's take a more concrete example, let's say FF XV could run on the dock mode at 720p, and a bit of downgrading, if the game can't run on the handheld mode because it needs to be massively downgraded, then the game can't be ported to Switch.

So you won't have games looking like Xbox One games on Switch, even on docked mode.