Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[Soundwave]

Chrkeller said:

Soundwave said:

There is a big difference between AMD GCN 2.0 and Nvidia Ampere/Lovelace. No one here has presented any kind of reasoned point against that. Put it this way, if Nintendo built the Switch 2 around AMD GCN 2.0 architecture of course there would be a huge fucking difference and the system probably would be exactly what some here are so desperate for it to be apparently, which would be a quite underpowered and very outdated system that would likely be in tough to run modern games in a portable power envelope. Too bad for folks who invested hard in that narrative that Nintendo didn't go that way I guess. 

I used the 7 year gap as a secondary explanation because the poster in question who I was responding too wasn't understanding even that. I'm not a high school teacher, it's not my job to explain something 300 different ways until someone understands it, at some point you either get it or you don't.

Again this is not even what this thread is about, just another case of selective outrage and cherry picking something that isn't even the central point being made. 

You also said the 2000 series was a massive leap, and yet a 1080 outperforms a 3050.  At the end of the day, I can't make you accept facts.  That is exclusively under your remit.  

As for the bolded part, in 2023 I went on record that the S2 would be able to run modern games..  so you win yet another imaginary battle?  

You presented a host of opinions over the years here, many/most of them especially your initial claims like the Switch 2 wouldn't be able to run something like FF7 Remake Intergrade (a game that is launching on the system in a few weeks) as one example. You then retreated from those positions and made token concessions here and there but continued to try and doom post in virtually every thread about the system. 

That's on you, not on me. You want to be mad at me over all that bullshit and gatekeeping, go ahead if it makes you feel better. I'm willing to drop it, but if you want to keep pretending none of that ever happened and keep engaging in these threads, I'm perfectly fine with calling you out too. 

The GCN 2.0 example is actually a wonderful one, Nintendo using GCN 2.0 architecture would have been so sweet for you, that's actually exactly the type of architecture/chipset choice that Nintendo would have had to made to fit perfectly into the outdated/underpowered talking points. Maybe that would have been exactly the design Iwata-era Nintendo may have chosen. Maybe not. Unfortunately for you I guess, that Nintendo doesn't exist any more, times have changed. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 14 January 2026