How will be Switch 2 performance wise?

[Wman1996]

Slownenberg said:

javi741 said:

When it comes to Nintendo tbh I always expect the bare minimum when it comes to specs at this point, Nintendo for the last 2 decades has shown 0 interest in making a powerful console and the Switch being as successful as it is as an underpowered device will only encourage Nintendo to be ok with releasing underpowered hardware

I always find this sentiment funny, when people claim Switch is underpowered. It's a handheld system from 2017! lol. It was powerful for a handheld system in 2017. You can't compare it to 2020 consoles or a 2022 enormous sort-of-but-not-really-portable device like the Steam Deck.

Yes the Wii was underpowered cuz they focused on motion controls, and WiiU was underpowered cuz they did the whole bizarre giant gamepad asynchronous multiplayer terrible design decision. Switch is a handheld though, so its going to have much lower specs than a console, which has nothing to do with being underpowered. Why do so many people not understand the difference between a handheld system and a console, nor the power differences between systems that launch years apart. People are funny when they just want to make an argument and don't care about the reasoning haha.

The New 3DS/2DS to Switch was a massive leap, debatably over a gen and a half. If you exclude GBC from the equation, I suppose you could make the argument GB to GBA was a bigger leap. But even that's up for debate.

I never expect Nintendo to play catch-up in-home console specs ever again. Nintendo screwed up the game formats for N64 and GCN (their last up-to par home consoles) and paid the price for it. Nintendo banked big on the Wii's Blue Ocean strategy, and it paid off. Then the Wii U tanked big time. But now Switch is more successful than Wii ever was. 

I think the rumors putting Switch 2 a lot closer to PS5 than PS4 are delusional. There's virtually no chance that's happening. If it somehow does, it would probably mean the dock has architecture in it to the give the console a massive boost for TV play. That seems quite unlikely as well.