TheMisterManGuy said:
I mean yeah, in 2017 the Switch was pretty impressive. But even then, it still wasn't the super powered home console people wanted from Nintendo. It's an Nvidia tablet with a TV out. As a portable system, that was cool. But as a home console, it's still pretty under-powered compared to the other consoles. And it especially looks weak compared to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. |
PS5 was no where close to being released in March 2017.
Switch is for its time of release, tech wise the most cutting edge product Nintendo has released since the GameCube in 2001 and then the N64 in 1996 before that, not even debatable. Tegra X1 was comparable to an Apple A9X which came in $800 iPad Pros for 2017.
The Switch is a lot closer to a XB1 or PS4 than people think, if Nintendo let devs actually utilize the 600 GFLOPS a Mariko/Lite/OLED models can hit, they'd basically be able to run any PS4 game fairly well at that but even at the OG spec the fact that it can run things like DOOM Eternal and Dragon Quest XI is bonkers.
This is why I also said a "Switch Pro" would be a tricky proposition because if you even increase the Switch's horsepower by like a moderate 50% ... it basically becomes a a portable XBox One essentially full stop, just at a lower resolution perhaps and if you do that, all of the sudden, like 100 different ports are quite easily feasible, so how's that going to work.
It will be interesting this time with no COVID supply chain shut downs if Nintendo proceeds with a Switch 2 Pro maybe 3-4 years into the Switch 2's product cycle. I think it would be a good idea.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 28 November 2023