David Jaffe is right. Tears of the Kingdom looks like a late 7th generation game, meaning it looks old.
This doesn't mean the game looks bad or doesn't take proper advantage of the Switch's hardware. In this case it means the game is clearly pushed back by its exclusive hardware platform.
Perhaps the Switch can do better graphics, but it probably can't do better graphics on an open world game with so much stuff going on.
I don't know why people are getting upset about this, though. David Jaffe is bad because he's not supporting the current thing which is to worship Tears of the Kingdom non-stop?
I believe that's only for the pixel pipes. It's not counting the vertex pipeline or the TEV unit.
Regardless, we never really counted FLOPs before using unified shader units because it doesn't really lead to comparable outcomes.
The framerate gives me a headache and detracts from the controls. It desperately needs better hardware. Really a joke to be playing a Wii U engine at 25fps in 2023 for a game that the devs put so many years of effort into.
There's always that option of emulating the game on PC hardware.
After properly purchasing a fully legal copy, of course.