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Slownenberg on 30 December 2019
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SwitchUP said:
Slownenberg said:

You don't understand why people compare the power of different systems? Why don't you understand that? Seems pretty natural to compare the power of different systems. Why can a portable system not be as powerful as a home console? Pretty sure Switch is more powerful than every home console ever made other than PS4 and XboxOne. Obviously portable systems can be as powerful as older home consoles. Portables don't exist as some inferior technology that can never be as powerful as any home console.

I can agree that Switch 2 doesn't necessarily need a screen upgrade, I mean do you REALLY need more than 720p on that small of a screen? Probably not. I think certainly at like 1080p on that size there is no reason to ever go above that. I just feel like lots of people will complain if the screen doesn't get upgraded to 1080p like 6 years later. If its a cost matter I'd certainly rather get a little more power rather than an upgraded screen. I think it should do 4k in docked mode though cuz by then 4k will probably be fairly standard for new TVs.

Interesting idea about different joycon splits, though because the joycons have to split into two separate controllers I feel like the current SNES-style design is the only one that really works. Like a gamecube joycon split wouldn't work at all when you actually split them.

You dont understand what I said. I didnt say anything about not understanding why people compare systems. I said, I dont understand why people expect portable hardware to match things like the ps4 pro. Nothing portable is even close to the pro. Not even close.

Portable hardware does exist on another level entirely. They will always be inferior because they can only get so much performance from a chip without killing a battery in 5 minutes. 

 People should keep their expectations of mobile chips in reality. Unless you know something I dont, the next switch wont be equal to a ps4 pro... not even in 2023. Even the most expensive devices cant match the xbox 1 fat. 

No, what you said is you don't understand why people think a portable system can match x console, meaning any other console. Obviously portable systems advance the same way home systems do. There is no reason why a portable system can't match the power of "x" system, depending on what the two systems are. Switch exceeds the power of 360 and PS3, having come out a decade later, it's reasonable to expect a system coming out 10 years after One/PS4 to exceed those. Maybe it won't match the later upgraded versions of those systems, but it should at least be somewhere in between the power of PS4 and PS4 Pro. We're not talking about a portable system matching a current home system, we're talking about a portable system matching the power of home consoles from 6 to 10 years ago, which the Switch already does.

If Nintendo saves money by not designing a completely brand new system, but instead does a straight upgrade to the Switch with just a few tweaks beyond the obvious technical upgrades, that saves them a lot of money in the R&D stage, so assuming they can get enough battery power in there, it is certainly within expectations that Switch 2 could at least be close to matching PS4 Pro performance when docked. Maybe it could be PS4 base level in portable mode and close to PS4 Pro when docked, something like that seems fairly reasonable for 2023.