Wow. Game Over Nintendo, game over. Not buying. :(

The Shield Tablet has a Tegra K1 chip not the more powerful X1.

We don't know what other techs/possibilities Nintendo packed in Switch (just look new Switch patent thread), with Switch you also have Switch Dock and Switch Grip with Joy Cons, we have basically real home console and real handheld in one that can be played in local multiplayer out of box.

All that at price point of $249 is great price, and will have very good sales, not bad sales. Like I wrote, New 3DS XL is still selling solid at price point of $199, this is just $50 more and offers much more and it's much more capable in every case.

I am pretty sure evre PS4 port could run on Switch at 720p resolution, 540p in portable mode and 720p in docked mode. If actual Switch is popular and have good sales, I am pretty sure we will more AAA ports on Switch. PS4 will be same time on market like PS4 Pro, Pro isn't successor to base PS4, it's just a stronger version on first place for 4k users.

I love it when you say that, it's like your catch phrase now I think.

Things aren't scalable like that, it's not even the same architecture. PS4 is X86 and the Switch is ARM. The coding itself would need to be rewritten completely for a game to work on the Switch.

Also there are plenty of games that are 1080p on PS4, 720p on Xbox 1... how well do you think this same game would run on the switch?

Have a look at how The Last Guardian or FFXV are running on both the PS4 vanilla and Pro. And as you said, it's not a successor, just a more powerful console under the same x86 architecture. Imagine how any of those games would play on the Switch? Exactly... they wouldn't. Nor should they, because the Switch is way too underpowered to handle such games. Even worse for open world games where you are usually CPU bottlenecked.

But hey... prove me wrong Nintendo. I'll love it if you do :)

Which only proves the author is full of shit. Keep in mind this is the same site that pushed hard that this was an AMD sytem not Nvidia. There is so much fallacy in that article that it highly suggests he maybe got one nugget of real info and tossed in a bunch of other crap pulled out of his incorrect ass.

No credible, proven to be correct over and over again thus far, source that has stated NS is greater in power than Xbox One let alone reaching PS4. NS is definitely around 500 to 800 GF at FP32.

It's not scalable like that, but they can port same PS4 game to run on Switche at 720p for instance, offcourse they will not work some PS4 from ground in order to work on Switch.

Over 90% of PS4 games are 1080p, so I really don't see problem for those games, other games could have some other lower graphical settings outside resolution.

Of Course that FFXV could run on Switch also if SQ decide to port game to Switch. Switch is underpowered to handle FFXV at 1080p and exactly same graphical setting, it capable to handle it at 720p and maybe some lower graphical settings.

Evre multiplatform game will be port of XB1/PS4 games of course.

Welcome back to reality guys!

You are correct. The Shield tablet launched at 300 bucks just a bit after the Tegra K1 was launched. So it was top-notch tech by then. It was relaunched a year latter, with a 199 price point. As Switch will pack the X1 and it is already 1 year old tech right now, I think we can assume that it is in a similar pricing as the older SoC was in 2015. So I still think Nintendo could go for 199.

It isn't really packing a lot of stuff. Just the controllers and the dock (probably a more expensive SKU). It also cuts some costs by decreasing the screen resolution, so it can even be the same here. The 3DS is selling at decent numbers for sure, but it has a big library to push it forward. While the XL version is more expensive, people still have cheaper alternatives on the regular New 3DS and the 2DS, so it isn't really selling always at a 200 dollars pricing.

As a portable, it has to be cheap to be used as second console. As it is launching mid gen, this is even more important.

As for performance, it won't be that easy to run current PS4 games even at 720p. X1 normally does it going from 720p to 900p and switch has pretty much less than half its GPU power and half the RAM. The CPU is probably way weaker since it's an ARM. Anyway, having AAA ports isn't a matter of power. It's a question of sales. PS2 was significantly weaker than both competitors and a hard to develop for machine. If 3rd party software sells well on the Switch, they will be ported.

What made Wii U lose 3rd party support wasn't it's limited power. The reason was the low sales of 3rd party games, such as the brilliant port of NFS: Most Wanted. People usually try to justify it with the "60 dollar late port" excuse, but look at what all those remaster are doing on PS4 and X1. If games sell well, 3rd parties will port them to Switch even if they have to almost rebuild the game from scratch.

Hum most Nintendo fans based on the forums