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Hiku on 05 August 2023
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IcaroRibeiro said:
Hiku said:

Isn't the expectation that it will be around base PS4? Haven't heard PS4 Pro, let alone above it.
Since it has such a small form factor, overheating would be a big issue.

IcaroRibeiro said:

Having a weird gimmick in other hand can be detrimental if the gimmick in question is not good. Wii U and 3DS come to mind. 

Do you mean the 3D effect? It had a slider on the side where you could turn it off, so I don't think it was much of an issue?

I was stating my desires, I don't follow rumors. Based PS4 is fine, but I would prefer PS4 Pro to make PS5 games port easier 

The 3D was an issue. It made the system more expensive and with a worse battery for no real gain. Nintendo addressed that and released the 2DS. It was a gimmick that backfired 

I think having some type of DLSS technology would be helpful with optimizing ports, since that lets you run games in lower resolution, which makes the framerate better, but the visuals are upscaled to look almost identical to higher resolutions.
And it seems like a safe bet that Switch 2 would have something like that.

The other issue, from my understanding, is that Switch has more of a different coding language than PS/XB. Which requiers developers to almost develop a separate game for Switch. This is more of a time/money consuming part than optimizing. If Switch 2 used similar architexture to a Playstation or Xbox, we could expect pretty much every game to be ported to it. But if they did that they'd probably have to give up on backwards compatibility, and I don't think they will neglect that. Pretty sure they'll use ARM architecture again.