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

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Chrkeller said:

JRPGfan said:

The lite model is not great.... its worse than even the oldest models of DLSS on pc.
I think PSSR is probably better than the Lite version, tbh.

There are rumors of PS5pro getting FSR4 soon, at that point, it will be far far ahead of the DLSS on the switch.

I think there is an important point here.  People see the S2 as punching above its weight, that is mostly because other console upscaling is really poor, thus the S2 can close the gap to a degree.  

Once consoles and PC mobiles get good upscaling, the gap will increase.  FSR has come a long way.  

Meaning rog ally vs S2 is one thing

Rog ally with FSR4 (official support) vs S2 will entirely different 

But credit to Nintendo for knowing how important upscaling is.

Don't think that impacts the Switch 2 at all. 

Nintendo made a system that can run modern gen games, almost assuredly they chose this performance range on purpose knowing it would give them many/most of the next-gen games they would want (Final Fantasy mainline, Monster Hunter games, Madden, FC Soccer, Persona, Yakuza, Call of Duty, Borderlands, Star Wars games, etc.). This is a design choice, not an accident. 

It's like the Atari Jaguar didn't really impact the Super NES, sure it was better hardware that released several years later but it had no impact on the SNES whatsoever because the SNES could run most any game of its day well enough for the mass market to enjoy its games.