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Dulfite said:

shikamaru317 said:

It doesn't have to have the specs of PS5 itself to play PS5 games, games are highly scalable these days. They only need AMD hardware for compatibility purposes and specs high enough to play games that run at say 1440-1800p on PS5 at 720p or so on the handheld (or even 540p and then use AMD's FSR to improve the look of the resolution), and then devs will be able to port PS5 games to the handheld with minimal effort (full PS4 back compat should be achievable as well as long as the specs are high enough, Series S for instance has full Xbox One BC minus the graphics improvements of Xbox One X).

The specs necessary to pull that off should be doable within a year or two most likely for the same $400 that Switch 2 is rumored to be launching at later this year. 

If it's that easy to cram that much tech into a handheld at an affordable price, then why are people convinced NS won't be around the same power level and that it will instead be at more of a PS4 level?

Latest rumors I saw suggest Switch 2 is somewhere between PS4 and Xbox Series S (so somewhere between Steam Deck and the more powerful Asus ROG Ally compared to PC handhelds), but I think the main reason some people aren't hopeful for Switch 2's specs, is that Nintendo seems to always choose a higher profit margin over using cutting edge tech and losing money per console or only breaking even. Look at Switch 1 for instance, it is a handheld/console hybrid released in 2017, but powered by a chipset consisting of a CPU from 2012 and a GPU from 2015, so it wasn't exactly cutting edge tech for 2017. Hopefully Nintendo is planning to push further tech wise on Switch 2 than they did on Switch 1, especially considering the rumored $400 price tag, but we'll have to wait and see.