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Soundwave said:
zeldaring said:

Don't really care for excuses you make to defend your beloved company if the hardware was held back for no good reason which in reality wouldn't have made a difference, it's a shitty move by nintedno and really shows how crappy of a company they are.    

There is a good reason, you just don't like it, but if you were running their business I doubt you would do any differently. 

A Switch Pro that allowed games to run at 60 fps and potentially even some games at 4K (and there is a video that shows definitely the Switch can run 4K games) would be a serious problem for the Switch 2 because then you'd have a bunch of stubborn people saying "well, I already have 4K and 60 fps on my Switch Pro, why should I buy a Switch 2". 

After Wii U and 3DS, that's the last headache Nintendo needs, Switch is a massive success but by the same token now the real work begins because repeating it becomes harder (ask Iwata). 

I would do the exact same thing if I was in Furukawa's shoes.

But for people who want the extra performance, hey it's there for you really, it's not some giant mystery how to overclock a Switch these days. You can get 60 fps and even higher resolution in a bunch of games if you want it. 

 The switches hardware is made for a specific power draw. Boosting clock speeds, even more so for the gpu, will boost power draw and while the chip may be able to handle it we don’t know if the rest of the components in the switch can. Granted Nintendo DID enable the “boost mode” thing for switch and that boost clocks speeds on the cpu and lowers them on the gpu. That means it can clock higher and Nintendo knows it BUT the fact that they underclock the gpu says a lot

I personally think your theory has no merit . ps4 pro is much closer to ps5 then mariko will ever be to switch 2 and the jump will be massive. nintendo woried about the petty things you describe to limit players from experiencing their games in much better quality makes no sense as there audience is not mainly about graphics.

Last edited by zeldaring - on 18 June 2024