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curl-6 said:
RedRabbit said:

The Switch may be a powerful handheld, but as a home console it's even a step back compeared to the WiiU.

Not sure what you're getting at here; performance wise Switch is considerably more capable than Wii U.

Yeah.  The idea it is weaker than Wii U is demonstrably false.  FAST Racing NEO is among the most technically advanced games on Wii U.  

On Switch, FAST RMX - an enhanced expanded follow up - runs at 1080p in most cases and dips to 900p occassionally.  That's a 320 - 450% increase in resolution over the Wii U's actual resolution of 640x720 which was temporally reconstructed to a final 1280x720 render.  It also features improved and added effects, a far superior lighting solution, and enhanced performance.  It also performs at 60fps in 3 and 4 player splitscreen, which the Wii U had to drop to 30fps because it was having troubles hitting 60fps consistently in just 2 player splitscreen.  

And in handheld it hits the full 1280x720 at all times with all visuals otherwise identical and even runs two player splitscreen at a rock solid 60fps.  

And whatever people may think of certain aesthetic choices, Xenoblade 2 is already showing numerous technical improvements over XCX, which was squeezing the Wii U for all it was worth.  

You can't just look at FLOPS.  You have to look at real world performance output.  The fact is, in practice the Switch is a noteworthy step up.