Uh, you're right that the Switch is noticeably stronger but no, the Gamepad uses the console's power to render everything, all you see on the Gamepad, game-wise, is just a video stream off the console.
Is the Switch more or less powerful than the Wii U?
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I was fearful this would be its big flaw, but thankfully it's become a success.
"The Wii U done right... 5 years too late."
Sorry, I should've clarified, obviously it's using the Wii U to send the video stream but that's all it is. It's not the game rendering twice by any stretch of the imagination, it's not cutting the CPU power in half like the poster I quoted was saying.
Well in some rare games where it renders different picture like in Star Fox it uses the power but probably not half of it even then.
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Apparently not obvious given some of the responses in this thread.
I get it that it "runs Wii U games at 1080p" when docked, although I hardly play my Switch in docked mode.
I guess the biggest thing is the amount of RAM the system has and the documentation/development tools developed around Tegra that it makes easier to develop for.
Probably not a popular opinion, but I wish the NS used one as a backup for those who wanted to keep the Wii style pointer controls....
In all seriousness i was joking. The Switch is far more powerful however, I do think the fact that the Wii U had to render the image twice from separate views (Star Fox Zero) had an impact on the graphics in certain games.
Not sure how this is seriously a question.
It sure says something about OP
I'm going with hellblade that game was favorably compared to the best of the best on the PS4. Obviously the port isn't at that IQ but it's still a great one.
^this, but yeah it's a 480p display so it doesn't eat that much rendering power and it's only for some games, and there are probably some optimization techniques involved.
Switch is more "powerful" in a lot of ways, particularly in that it uses modern architecture in a world where engines scale better than ever. Wii U was GameCube based tech taken to its end, which is why it had jittery versions of games that ran fine on even the PS3.
Did you just like miss all the enhanced Wii U -> Switch ports that Nintendo and others have been pumping out?
3DS has 2 ARMs. Switch has 4 ARMs plus an actual game called ARMS. That's a lot more arms
I really do have to wonder why they never patched XC2. Do people know if it runs in the lowest power mode in handheld and that could be causing the low end dynamic resolution numbers.
Every game should use the Yoshi predictive frame AA solution on Switch (unless it's an UE4 exclusive feature? brainchild ) considering it looked like it was 900p to me when docked to a 50" 4k HDTV and it turned out to be 576p lol...
It's not exclusive to UE4, no. There's nothing stopping other devs from doing it, though they'll obviously need to know how to implement it in order to take advantage of it.
Turns out that the inclusion of Octodad on WiiU means that the WiiU isn't that worse-off than Switch in terms of ARMs, but there certainly wasn't anything like that for 3DS. As a handheld system, the ARMs that Switch has, well, it's fuckin' ridiculous
Hellblade used pre rendered videos for its cutscenes, the game itself isn't that impressive compared to DOOM or Wolfstein running on Switch for example, it runs at 480p
However games like Skyrim or Dragons Dogma deserve credit too for being improved versions running at the highest resolution possible
Switch would be even more so if they would allow full clock speed in docked mode which is over 1.7ghz for cpu and over 900mhz for gpu. Nvidia Shield has the same SOC but it smokes it due to running and full clock speed.
Oh god.... the viral marketing of the wii against nintendo still shows their effect today. Come on people... it's much better than wii u and ps3.
Not really true with at least the GPU. There is data around that shows that the Shield's clockspeed levels down due to heat and averages at around the same level as the Switch.
Kinda like a gamepad that strays too far from its base...
The Switch is as much as twice as powerful when portable. It also has the most modern GPU out of all the current consoles. It has some bottlenecks like memory bandwidth, and clock speeds of the cpu, but it is also the easiest platform to develop for on the market, as long as you have a devkit of course.
You need to give the switch more credit I'm pretty sure it's using hot glue instead of duct tape.
Oh wow regarding all the corrections. My source of the 1 teraflop info in Switch was GameSpot. That's crazy what the Switch can do. Nonetheless, despite FP16 vs. FP32, the Switch is still more powerful than Wii U.
just compare xenoblade X and xenoblade 2.
While X is more open, it's cutting a lot of corners that 2 doesn't have to.
You can also say goodbye to cellshaded characters because that shit is expansive too.
A WiiU centric game like BotW run markedly better on Switch undocked than it does on WiiU, just imagine what sub Switch undocked Xeno2 is going to look like.
You'll be lucky if the IQ doesn't fall behind actual Game Boy.
It already runs like nightmare on portable switch 😋
X looked ok though, for a U game
