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curl-6 on 19 January 2021
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Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:

Some will run it better than Switch, but wouldn't others also be worse? I mean, I'm pretty sure Switch offers a better experience than my ancient potato of a laptop that's starting to struggle having more than three internet tabs working at once haha.

Correct. The GDP Win. (The original from 2016) would certainly run it inferior to the Switch, because it wouldn't run it at all, but it's also older than the Switch, but was never meant to seriously be a AAA gaming device, more emulation/older games/xbox 360 console ports.
But anyone who owns such a device wouldn't be using it to run Doom Eternal... The later variants are targeting AAA gaming.

The PC isn't some black and white thing, it encompasses a myriad of form factors, performance, price-points, TDP's and generations.

But there are devices out there that would absolutely outperform the Switch as a handheld, we need to remember that when the Switch launched it wasn't using the latest technology available on the market, not to mention it was severely underclocked as well which compounded matters.
Time is never kind to low-end or mobile technology.

Credit where credit is due though, Nintendo gets some fantastic results from the device.

Oh I agree, that's kinda what I meant, that because of the broad range of hardware out there, while you can definitely find better ways to play, I personally don't think I'd say the Switch is definitively the worst as I'm sure I can imagine less optimal ones especially when considering personal preferences.

It's definitely the least performant mainstream way to play. For a lot of players though I can see it coming down to the classic tradeoff of "do I want to play it in better graphics on PS4, or on the go/with gyro aiming on Switch?"

Even if I had a PS4/PS5/Xbox One/Xbox Series I personally would probably still grab it on Switch for the gyro, just as I bought the 7th gen COD games on Wii even though I owned an Xbox 360, because I loved Wii remote aiming.