Keep in mind we had a member on this forum back in the day who I literally spent months arguing with who believed the WiiU was more powerful than the PS4 because of the 32 MB of eDRAM.

You just can't buy that kind of entertainment.

Asking the other way around.. how likely is it that Switch 2 will not face the issue that games are not released on the system due to its specs?
Because that is what I want Nintendo to avoid at all cost. There should not be even one instance where you have to purchase a 2nd system because a multiplatform 3rd party game skips the system. That is my wish.

540p or less native scaled to 1440p or 4k is going to look terrible on a big TV.  You seem stuck talking about how games will look on a small screen....  the switch 2 is a hybrid and needs to look good on a large TV, not just 8 inch screen.

If it helps I agree on a small screen the pixel density is goof enough where low resolution and low settings is fine.  Docked mode is the issue when comparing to the ps5.

The latest Switch 2 leak is concerning to say the least, I really hope it is bogus. I see 3 main mistakes in the leaked specs:

1. Only 8 GB of RAM. Devs are already frequently complaining that 10 GB (8 useable by devs) on Series S is not enough, so if Nintendo only has 8 GB (6 useable) it definitely feels like many 3rd parties won't want to port their games to Switch 2, just like Switch 1 before it. Imo they need 12 GB of RAM (10 useable by devs).

2. 64 GB of internal storage. Games continue to get bigger and bigger, with some games like CoD now regularly over 100 GB, and the upcoming GTA 6 likely shaping up to be 200 GB+. How in the heck will Switch 2 get ports of these games with such low internal storage? Xbox for instance already committed to putting CoD on Switch 2, but how in the heck will they manage to get a 100 GB+ game to fit on Switch 2? Physical carts only, no digital download? Solid state storage is fairly cheap now, you can get a 500 GB PCIe 3.0 SSD at retail for like $35 now, and Nintendo is buying wholesale, not retail. Why not go big on storage and embrace digital sales where the profit margin for Nintendo is much higher than on physical sales where they waste alot of money on pricey carts?

3. 120hz screen. This just seems pointless. Very few games will be capable of running over 60 fps in handheld mode (ports of older generation games and low graphics indies at most), so why spend money on a higher refresh rate screen when you can put more money into fixing the above RAM and storage problems instead?

12 GB RAM could happen. Steam Deck is obviously a lot weaker than the 9th gen consoles but has 16 GB RAM. I really don't see Nintendo using that much. Nintendo will probably use 8 or 10, but 12 like you said would be awesome. 

64 GB storage is indeed very paltry. Let's look at some file sizes.

Switch is closer to an Xbox 360 and PS3 in specs than an Xbox One and PS4, but is still clearly above those old consoles.

Uncharted 3 on PS3 is about 43.5 GB. I don't know of any Nintendo games on Switch with that high of a file size, but there are some that are 17 GB and up with updates and DLC. And of course, NBA 2K24 is 61.7 GB. With that in mind Switch having 32 GB (64 GB for OLED) of storage is still small, but not the craziest thing for a hybrid.

Now let's look at Xbox One and PS4, which Switch 2 will be more in line with. COD Modern Warfare is 175 GB+, and I'm sure some third-party games on Switch 2 might be around that. There will probably be a good number of Nintendo games that push 20 GB, some might even go above 40 GB.

128 GB seems like the minimum amount of storage for Switch 2, with 200-256 GB as more ideal. 

540p to 1080p looks fine on a smaller display, shit I have even tested this on my 77 inch Samsung QD-OLED S90C that I got for Black Friday (with kick ass second gen QD OLED panel, so don't lecture me on TV tech, that's not a can of worms you want to open up) and it's passable even as low as 540p to 1080p. I had friends over who are guys who play COD, Elden Ring, GTA, Madden NFL (ie: typical gamers) and they had no idea that they were playing Cyberpunk 2077 at only 540p to 1080p resolution. From 540p, DLSS can begin to resolve a pretty decent looking image. 

For docked mode 720p to 1440p would look fine. With 720p DLSS can definitely start to cook. 720p to 1440p on my 77 inch display looked quite good, even 720p to full 4K is fine. 

There is no freaking point to rendering natively on a system like this, if you have a PC GPU that can draw 300 watts, that's a different story, but on a Switch as a developer there is no point to native rendering. DLSS gives a good enough image that has anti-aliasing basically baked in on top of that, you'd be stupid to render natively. 

99% of people are not going to know the difference, you'd have to put them side by side and even then most people are just going to go "oh ok, so this image is a bit softer, big whoop".

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