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[cormack12]

The hardware isn't even good enough for their own ambitious games. We should get a decent looking xb in 2036 at this rate.

 

[Radical_3d]

The Take (Komatsu, 1980).​

 

[PeteBull]

Just a reminder to the OP and every1 else- switch is 2017 handheld, it has roughly 1/3rd of xbox one power docked, its somewhere midway from ps360 to xbox one powerwise, ofc almost all games will look extremly terrible on it, with exceptions of exclusives who reduce graphics in super smart way so its less visible how underpowered switch is by todays standards.

TLDR: No amount of console optimisation, coding to the metal and programing magic can make up for very outdated weaksauce hardware

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I want to believe that 99% of the Switch users are well aware that the 3rd party games available on the system run and look better on Xbox/PS/PC...

That said, I have just over 100 Switch games, and about 70% of them are multi-platform titles that run and look fine. You just need to spend a couple of minutes researching before buying a 3rd party game to see if you're okay with what you're getting. That’s about it.

 

[Ozriel]

With the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and other AMD SOC-based gaming handhelds out, I simply find myself not bothering to get any multiplat on the Switch anymore. They all run - without exception - much better on the Deck, the Ally or even the Ayaneo 1+.

I know this is like the beating the deadest horse ever, but Nintendo absolutely must understand that the NSW was already long in the tooth in 2019. And Nintendo looks set to repeat this same strategy. If the leaked specs are real (eight-core Cortex-A78AE processor, 10 streaming multiprocessors, 8GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage ), we are going to be looking at similarly muddy multiplat titles in less than 2 years.

Well, the Switch 2 will put out games with better visuals than the Deck, and will be much more popular.
If you’re fine with playing multiplat games on the Deck right now, you’ll be fine with playing them on the next Switch.

 

[cireza]

Almost all multiplat run like shit indeed. This has been known like forever.

 

[kubricks]

I have not purchased any ports on NSW since 10/2022 and that was the date I received my Steam deck.
NSW was the only mainsteam handheld I can play those last gen AAA games back then, once there was alternative I jumped ship immediately and never looked back.

Time has changed as the handheld market opens up. There are absolutely no reasons to buy any ports from Nintendo even if Switch-2 is more powerful... softwares are almost always cheaper elsewhere.

That said I will most likely still buy the Switch-2 when it is out, for their exclusive obviously.

Thinking back, If the OLED Switch is just 15-20% more powerful and can run their more demanding exclusive games at a stable 30fps (Age of calamity for example) as well as improve frame pacing on ports, I would have stayed within their ecosystem and happy to play downgraded ports for the sake of convinence.
They didn't, so I moved on.

 

[Ponderling]

Most 3rd party switch ports are lazy hack jobs.
The visuals Nintendo can produce from a 10 watt system is mind blowing.

 

[Kataploom]

Best looking Switch games are those natively created for it, whenever people praise ports like TW3 or Doom all I can think is that they're thinking on the other versions more than the Switch one, those ports look bad to me but that's what the console can deliver anyway