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HintHRO said:
Medisti said:

lol! First, how much CPU power do you think the HD rumble is really eating up? Second, I use the HD Rumble and like it quite a bit, especially in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, so there goes your "nobody' blanket statement.

HD rumble is a very expensive gimmick. Nintendo had to compensate power because it would make Switch too expensive. HD rumble doesn't use hardware power itself. 

With 'nobody' I obviously mean a very small amount of people that also could've lived easily without it. Nobody really wants or needs HD rumble above power, but Nintendo did it anyway and now they lose even more third party support because the Switch is barely more capable than Wii U. 

The limiting factor with the Switch's hardware power comes down to form factor and power usage. It frankly isn't possible to make a console with PS4 level power with the Switches form factor and power requirements.