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Captain_Yuri said:

I think Nintendos main problem is that they really like to add gimmicks which takes cost away from the core hardware. The Switch has quite a lot of unnecessary gimmicks that I never use and I would rather have taken away for better hardware that would give me a better gaming experience. But Nintendo isn't that type of a company and that has lead to both their successes and failures.

And this is realistically what I fear about the Switch 2. Nvidia has a great technology called Tensor Cores. Combined with DLSS, it's able to give you unprecedented results from an upscaler that in some areas are better than Native. If Sony or Microsoft had access to this technology, you would be your arse that they would make full use of it. Nintendo is the type of company that would instead of including Tensor cores with the Switch 2 would rather include more waggle functionality and make everyone facepalm.

And imo, that is one of the main reasons why they go with such old hardware. It's not so much that they want to per say but their priority is gimmicks first, hardware second. They would rather use outdated hardware thats cheap but add more gimmicky features than state of the art hardware that costs more with less gimmicky features.

Hopefully that changes with the Switch 2 but you can never know with Nintendo...

They more or less took a look at PS2 sales vs their expensive and superior GC hw and haven't looked back since, because since then it's been weaker hw after weaker hw.

I really do wish they would amp up their perf and visual gains. Some of their stuff definitely has artistic flair, but at the same time some of it doesn't and looks sparse and muddy/blurry af, and it's primarily down to them going for weaker hw. With Nvidia they could absolutely gain better perf and IQ clarity, but I'm going to agree with you and bet they'll likely settle for yet another gimmick (instead of fixing their god damn joycon issue, which has rendered my second set of joycons utterly useless now, which means I'm not touching my Switch until joycon prices come down).