Why is the Switch still not getting big games from 3rd parties?

[nemo37]

habam said:

nemo37 said:

width, which has been doubled. In addition, X2 achieves a maximum of 750 GFLOPS in single precision mode (the X1 could do a maximum of 512). Now Nintendo, most likely in a bid to keep up with the system's thermals, down clocked the GPU so the Switch's actual performance in docked mode is about 1.3X less (about 393 GFLOPS). If we reduce the speed of the X2's GPU by the same amount, then we get about 576 GLOPS.

The X2 does have the same performance as the x1 with just 50% of the wattage, thats the advantage. You could easily have a switch with current docked performance portable (for 720p games) and ~750 gflops in docked mode (900-1200p). While still beeing behind the xbox one (1150 Gflops), porting would for sure be way easier then it is currently.

I actually did not realize that the power consumption is that much lower. It would for sure create a bigger leeway for devs to port over more content. Though even then, I still think it might be too low for most current and future triple-AAA Western games (being the owner of all the current dedicated gaming consoles and the PC, I see many of these games somewhat struggle on the much more powerful X1s and PS4s so I doubt they could really target anything much lower).