TheMisterManGuy on 01 December 2023
| Conina said: Since every Switch games has also to run in the battery constrained handheld mode, that is the correct benchmark for minimum specs of a game... not the docked mode. Undocked mode ain't optional for developers. |
Technically it is. Nintendo doesn't actually mandate developers support all play modes of the Switch. Every Switch game has a chart listing compatible modes on either the back of the box or the eShop description. There are a handful of Switch games that don't support handheld mode for example (though most of those are motion control focused). So theoretically, a game can just only support TV Mode. But nearly all Switch games generally support the undocked modes anyway since that's the whole point of the system.
