yes but not or a home console. this is what Nintendo are marketing it as.

Yes. It could run it. There is zero technical reason why.

And yes, it is that expensive. But the cost of the Switch doesn't magically double if you took the GPU out of Galaxy and dropped it into the Switch.
There is so much more in the Galaxy that drives the price up.

I don't always agree with you, but often times it's because you know more about the subject than I do, and you love to poke holes in my oversimplifications.

But this time, I couldn't agree with you more. Another thing that might want to be noted is that the markup on the price of smartphones is absolutely astounding. Apparently the Bill of Materials for the Galaxy S7 is $255, wheras the BOM for the Xbox One S is $324. Yet, MS charges $300-350 for the Xbox One S, and Samsung can get away with a $670 MSRP for the Galaxy S7. With this in mind, it's really not fair to consider the cost of the smartphone when considering the cost of the technology within it. There certainly doesn't appear to be any reason why the components of the Galaxy S7 are too expensive for Nintendo to utilize.

I wouldnt call the last let's play BoTW video as solid performance (fps and texture were horrible), and rumors abt battery life are not great (some even mentioned 3hours battery life). If submerged didnt convince, take a look at afterpulse. What you misunderstood is that those games are playable in lower-end table/phone, which is at the same price range with NS.

Instead of guessing (yes, guessing) how NS will perform, why not take a look at these numbers?  With these spec, good luck running ds3 on switch. Even on the lowest setting with 720p, ds3 requires 2.5gb vram. So if you want a game that's "close to BotW in terms of visuals & scope", you're gon need more powerful device than switch. Bear in mind that BoTW is an in-house game, which is often almost perfectly optimized for the system. Most 3rd party games would never have that level of optimization.

I know this whole thread is you crying about your disappointment with Nintendo, but at least until January 12th, can you stop pretending like the Switch is the official 7th gen portable machine? It's pretty obvious that  the Switch is either going to get some 8th gen ports or it's not going to get any ports at all, not only would it be pretty unlikely for companies to rerelease  only 7th gen games, but we already know a lot of high quality Square games are most likely coming to Switch so this stab at nintendo doesn't really work. 

SonytendoAmiibo said: AngryLittleAlchemist said: I know this whole thread is you crying about your disappointment with Nintendo, but at least until January 12th, can you stop pretending like the Switch is the official 7th gen portable machine? It's pretty obvious that  the Switch is either going to get some 8th gen ports or it's not going to get any ports at all, not only would it be pretty unlikely for companies to rerelease  only 7th gen games, but we already know a lot of high quality Square games are most likely coming to Switch so this stab at nintendo doesn't really work.    Actually you are in the wrong thread. This is the Digital Foundry thread. Just saying......

XD ahhaha sorry chap