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Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:

It's not like you get nothing out the trade off on a hybrid. The huge addition is you're getting a portable version of every game that you can play anywhere you want. 

Frankly, that's a much bigger deal to a lot of people than having a resolution bump + 60 fps. 

Want proof? Anyone dumb enough to claim a Switch that was not a hybrid but could run all its games like BOTW at 1440p + 60 fps would sell anywhere close to the current Switch? 

It wouldn't. It probably would have trouble selling even over 20 million units instead of the 150+ million the Switch is going to finish at. A lot more people are interested in a Breath of the Wild at 900p + 30 fps AND portable + home play versus a version that would be maybe 1440p + 60 fps but losing the portability. 

There's no game I've ever played in my life that was ugly or not fun to play at 1080p + 30 fps that suddenly became good looking and fun to play at 1440p + 60 fps. 

It's a nice to have. It's not a generational shift or even close to that though. And also funny how we don't have every PS5 thread flooded with people saying the 4090 is a much, much better piece of hardware and you shouldn't enjoy PS5 games because they can't possibly run as well as they could on a 4090 and PS5 is clearly a generation behind a 4090, etc. etc. etc. Every game on the PS5 that's available on PC, a 4090 can run it at a better resolution and better frame rate than a PS5, but no one seems compelled to have to put that into every PS5 discussion. Interesting how the gate keeping only applies to one console and one console only. 

Probably because nobody in a ps5 thread would be ridiculous enough to claim the ps5 is the same hardware class as the 4090.

And nobody is saying people shouldn't enjoy switch games.  

The only dispute is if S2 is the same class as the ps5....  the answer is, no.  

Nobody goes into PS5 threads to tout the 4090's superiority because they have a life. 

It's only done for one console and one console only and no one has claimed literally 100% equivalent performance ever between Switch 2 and next-gen consoles. Everyone knows there is a trade off but there is a significant upside for that trade off too, the upside being you get a fully portable experience on top of a home experience. 

How many PS5 threads have someone coming into them and stating for no real particular reason that they own a 4090 and cannot stand to play at game below 90 fps or that no PS5 game has equivalent ray tracing? 

No one really behaves like in those cases. Why? Because they don't feel the need to gate keep. Interesting how that behavior is only present in Switch 2 threads. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 13 February 2024