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Darc Requiem on 25 June 2017
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HintHRO said:
Darc Requiem said:

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. 

I don't believe that for a second. Like I said previously, Nintendo could've used the Tegra X2. This chip is already more than a year old and specifically designed for mobile-like devices. Infinity Blade (iOS) came out in 2010 with way better graphics and performance than Wii. It is now 7-years later. Now they're working on mobiles that come close to even X1 and PS4: https://venturebeat.com/2016/02/16/mobile-devices-will-be-more-powerful-than-playstation-4-xbox-one-in-2017-arm-forecasts/

Switch could be closer to X1, but is really closer to Wii U. 

The Tegra X2 was designed for car's and power conservation wasn't a main feature. That aside the X2 isn't much more powerful than an X1. The bulk of the performance gains were from a higher clock speed. People talk about the X2 like it was massive leap in performance. The X1 is .5 TFLOP chip. The X2 is a .625 TFLOP chip.