Many people get a phone on a contract and ultimately in their eyes, pay nothing.

Very true, but sadly a lot of people seem to lack common sense these days for thinking they're paying nothing. While yes, we can pay nothing from the start, the amount we have to pay monthly pretty much covers the costs of the phone as well as the contract since the monthly charges are so high to begin with. The Samsung Galaxy S9+ on the network I'm on, Tesco Mobile, is an eye-watering £52.49 a month for 24 months; the total is a massive £1259.76. And that's already one of the least expensive contracts available with meaningful data allowances. The phone is going to be very expensive to own regardless of which direction you go in.

I never see you questioning when people post Xbox One X vs Switch comparisons.

Switch is a hybrid, meaning it shares the strengths & weaknesses of both mobile devices & home consoles so if one comparison is valid than the other is valid by default.

Heavy post-processing and motion blur hide the quality of textures and lack of detail. Try to take a screenshot of it when the game goes into slow motion.

Not that it isn't impressive. But we do know pretty well the specs of smarphones and what they should be capable of.

But I guess it's understandable when you feel compelled to own 400 games on a single platform that you have little time for anything else, including such technicalities.

Digital Foundry has made a comparison.


TLDR: PC > Xbox One X > Playstation 4 Pro > Playstation 4 > Xbox One S > Xbox One > Switch Docked? > Android Epic > iOS > Switch Undocked.

Android:
Epic: 1420x720
Medium: 1387x675
Low: 925x450.

iOS iPhone X: 1461x675

Switch Undocked:
Max: 1280x720.
Min: 640x360.

When you are at the cellphone level, doesn't matter how expensive it's (and there is a lot of premium charged) it shows it won't be long before Switch will be in a hard place against nextgen PS and Xbox.

This video is kinda doo doo. Missing many important informations and straight up WRONG in some of them.

Switch has better LOD, Draw Distance

better models, ambient occlusion, better geometry, etc

list goes on.

Quite common for people defending Switch to forget that it have both S and W for both console and HH. Sure for a lot of people the benefits are much larger while for some others the cons are bigger... but we certainly need to remember it benefits and is hindered by its hybrid nature.

The 3ds and gameboy weren’t in a hard place against PS3 and Xbox now was it?

Good thing the switch is mobile. On top of that, it’s running a generic mobile soc with fully EXISTING upgradable parts. Unlike Nintendo previous portables with custom chips.

So in reality, Nintendo could update the switch YEARLY if they want. Tegra roadmap exist already. X2 > Xavier> Pegasus > Orin 

Are you sure you are more qualified than DF for analysis on pure graphical stuff?