I think the reason that we have the performance profiles we have for both dock and handheld boils down to two factors: battery life and parity between handheld and docked modes.

These are difficult things to balance and I don't think Nintendo has as much room for overclocking and such without compromising these two aspects as some people think. The fact that it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. We are already getting like 2h of battery life while playing Cyberpunk or MKW. That number is barely acceptable for a portable device so I think increasing the clock speeds wouldn't be acceptable for the majority of customers.

Wtf?  I said rebirth ran well and you acted like I was being silly.  I was pleased because 16 was a nightmare.  When I pointed out it ran poorly on PC and consoles this happened.  Lol, seriously man.  

There is a good number of games that run poorly on a 4090 and even worse on consoles... I'm not sure why you even called my statement out. 

Rebirth is a good port and runs well, why that statement bothered you is a mystery.  

Much like the while panel thing, you fight with odd arguments.

You are running on a false tangent here.

I said I play games that run best, on PC... On PC. - And games that run best on console, on console.

And you somehow illogically attributed to that having something specifically to do with FF16? You can do better than that. Try again.

I'm torn on the prospects of a 3rd. I loved the 1st game but the 2nd is up there with my most disappointing games of all time.

My main gripe is that it was just insultingly easy. The 1st game was by no means hard but I remember it being tricky to get through many missions with your whole team intact, and those special challenge missions were straight up challenging. 

I waltzed through the first half of sparks of hope barely having to pay attention then just stopped. 

I also wasn't a fan of the free movement approach in SoH.

For me at least, in a strategy/puzzle game there has to be a decent level of challenge or it's just an empty experience.

It's a weird one as generally Nintendo strike a good balance in terms of difficulty, even 2nd party/co-developed projects...

If they do a 3rd I hope they remember that most switch owners are adults and don't want a baby's first xcom. At least gimme a hard mode where enemies do double xp damage or something, ffs.

Yeah, it was kinda common sense to expect that they will put fans in dock that actually cool the main unit and help it clock higher than what it clocks now. Maybe they even did at one point, but I'm thinking pure accounting and profit margins weighed in  on that one and made it what it is now.

It's interesting to see footage of upcoming ports coming out of Gamescom, but with a lot of people freaking out over stuff like Elden Ring performing poorly, I feel like it needs to be kept in mind with the demos at these events are pre-release code.

These days, developers optimize their games right up to release day via day 1 patches. (And often beyond) Many of these games are not out for months yet, and we don't know how old the demo builds are.

Something like Elden Ring could (and hopefully will) be in better shape by the time it's in our hands.

If Remake is really running at 40 fps at a good resolution then there is no excuse for Elden to be 20 fps.  Hopefully there is a patch.  

And Hopefully Snake Eater's day patch helps the ps5 as well.  

I don't like day 1 patches but they are part of life now.  

Not making excuses for it, just saying it's a bit early to write it off entirely. I wouldn't be surprised if it did still perform poorly at launch given the game itself is something of a technical mess, (as per usual for From Software's games) just saying that pre-release builds aren't necessarily indicative of the final product.

If the reality of the world was we lived in say 1998 where mobile battery packs weren't common and trains/planes/airports/coffee shops/malls all didn't have plug in sources every where, I'd say fine limit it. 

But we don't live in that world any more. We live in a world built around the smartphone, as such it's simple and cheap to add additional battery life to your system and it's easy to find plug in sources even on transport these days. 

I think they should allow it to overclock legally. People are going to do it anyway, they might as well allow it in a controlled fashion. Especially with the top USB port, the system is kinda designed now to be plugged in even on the go if you want it to be. It would also deter people from seeking out hacks and overclocking the system in a way Nintendo doesn't want them to. 

The whole "it's only 90 minutes or 2 hours of battery!" stuff just isn't that much of a non-starter anymore (as evident by the fact that sales of the Switch 1 OG and Switch 2 are both through the roof). It's just simple, cheap, and easy to get a longer battery life if that's something you're really concerned with nowadays. Even in the past, the PSP could overclock itself if you plugged it in, that was the way I played my PSP a lot of the time actually. 

If you want your Switch 2 to have like 4-5 hours of play time on the go (say you somehow have a 90 minute train commute both ways or something crazy like that), it's not hard or even expensive to add that functionality. 

Maybe the 2nd fan in the dock is for overclocking, I'm not sure but I haven't noticed it ever turn on while playing currently, which leads to the question of why is it there. Maybe it's there for future performance profiles.