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Clearly, yes.

Take any game you can think of, good or bad. Add more power. Without changing any gameplay element or the art style, more power will allow: higher resolution; better / more stable frame rate; longer draw distances, less or no screen tearing; more detail and better textures; shorter loading times and area transitions...

More power means a better game experience for any given game. It is most clearly demonstrated in generation transitions where the same game is released on last gen and current gen platforms. No one ever says "The Last gen version is the best version." At best, the last gen version is good enough that you don't feel compelled to buy the new gen hardware for that game. Though as always, Nintendo may offer and exception if BoTW makes good use of the Wii U game pad. It could be that because of game pad functionality, the Wii U version is a better game than the Switch version.

Does it mean you will get better games if you have a more powerful system? Of course not. The quality of a game has nothing to do with the hardware and everything to do with how good the developers are at making games.

Look at all the utter crap games you can play on Steam Greenlight on a $2000 PC. The developers had access to a whole lot of power, they just chose not to use it, or theuy made and absolutely shit job of it. And then there is basic developer incompetence on a particular platform, ref Batman Arkham Knight. PC versio being unplayable for many people, even though gaming PCs are more powerful than consoles.



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