If you think the Switch 2 isn't exactly that, I don't know what to tell you. They should have added a significantly beefier CPU and some RAM with much higher bandwidth.
Yes, the Switch 2 can run Series S games, significantly downgraded and 1080p@30fps.
The Series S (which is garbage for 2025 4K gaming) has a significantly better CPU, better RAM and a better GPU. That is sad.
One plugs into the wall and draws nearly 4 times the power, one is expected to last at least two and a half hours portably on 20-22w maximum.
Are you genuinely stupid? The T239 APU in the Switch 2 isn't something you can just swap CPUs out with, it's an APU that Nvidia designed with both the Cortex CPU and Ampere GPU on-chip that comes as a single package. Nintendo could not get anything better/newer without the cost of manufacturing ballooning out of control (and Nvidia is notoriously difficult/expensive to work with). They are selling it almost at a loss. Additionally, faster RAM would do jackshit on a significantly lower power chipset, the Switch 2's T239 doesn't seem to be bandwidth starved at all.
There is nothing sad about it, the Series S is indeed poor for 4K gaming but it's a completely different animal (home console) by a completely different manufacturer (AMD) using a completely different instruction set processor (x86 vs arm).
Even if the Series S consumes 74w at gaming, it's still extremely impressive that a mobile chipset is consuming nearly 1/4 of the power while seemingly delivering 2/3-3/4s of the performance and still able to go for hours on battery.
If you think an Xbox or PlayStation handheld is going to be able to achieve much better than the Switch 2 within this year you're on crack. The Steam Deck is quite a bit behind (and arguably dated) in performance and the Rog Ally X/Z2 Extreme handhelds require much more power and heat to outperform the S2.
My opinion on the switch 2 is negative because Nintendo fell well short of what was promised:
-The joycons still drift
-The refresh rate compliance of the screen is 30fps, as in regardless of what the framerate of the game is, the screen is only fast enough to display 30 fps properly.
-The power in handheld mode is worse than devices released in 2023
-The battery life is worse than the og switch 1
-The games and the accessories are overpriced
-The device ergonomics have not improved in any meaningful way since the switch 1
-The UI has seen very little notable changes
-Game Key Cards
-Advertising hdr when it doesn't exist for portable mode. It's not even an hdr capable screen.
-It costs more than a ps5, steam deck Oled, series S, while delivering less performance than all those devices.
-It doesn't feel like a new console at all.
Why wouldn't it be negative? Other than improved visuals, objectively speaking, there are not many improvements while there are lots of problems?
It's genuinely insane how much of this is either completely false or an extremely inaccurate generalization. The handheld screen doesn't only properly show 30fps. It has ghosting issues, but to say it "only shows 30fps" is so technically illiterate you borderline sound like a troll.
The Deck OLED is $550, so what the fuck are you even talking about?
As someone who actually owns a S2 (after originally not planning on getting one at all), it feels like an immense step up over the incredibly aging S1, and the bigger joycons are much better and it does feel like a pretty sleek and substantial upgrade over the Switch 1. It feels like a much bigger upgrade than PS4 to PS5, and the BC results evidence that.
I understood some of the online frustration with the Switch 2 until I actually got one, now I'm realizing more than ever that half the people on this website have no clue what the hell they are talking about and they'd actually rather bitch about things they know literally nothing about. I've always been a PC gamer, and I have a PS5 and SeX, but after the piss-poor showing from both Sony and MS this gen I'm likely only bothering with Nintendo from now on and continuing PC gaming. They are the only ones left who actually know how to sell a console anymore (aka, with good exclusive games).