No MGSV but you have plenty of Switch games that were on PS360 and absolutely destroy those old versions, like Alien Isolation, Crysis 1-3, Skyrim, Darksiders 1, Red Faction Guerrilla, Dragons's Dogma, Burnout Paradise and so on. And you have stuff like Dying Light, which was cancelled for PS3 and 360 for technical limitations and just came out fine on the Switch.
Yeah, look at the PC with 2021 hardware blowing out the 2017 $300 tablet.
... and frankly that's why so many people have been clamoring for an update to this 2017 tablet. It's graphics were outdated when it arrived in 2017. And here we are 4 years later with no upgrade in sight. It's long overdue.
It's a nice option but saying it's making it obsolete it's a bit too much honestly.
The OLED is absolutely not a similar screen to an LCD. The Switch is absolutely fine as a portable with 2015-2017 hardware available for $200.
Sorry, I was mistaken and thought the Deck came with an OLED display. Edited my post.
switch OLED has 64GB storage. base steam Deck at $399 has...64GB storage.
I'd be fine with Prime coming to the base Switch at 900p/1080p docked and 4k on the Switch Pro or whatever. That'd be awesome, actually.
The thing is, there's no reason to believe that Nintendo's next system is going to be up to modern standards either. They have not chased that since the Gamecube. I was hopeful for a Switch Pro but at this point I'm just done expecting that from them. The Wii and Switch have been their biggest successes while their actual steps towards modern quality (Gamecube and arguably the Wii U) did nowhere near as well. I don't know what Nintendo's next gimmick will be, but it will have one. Even if they just make a Switch 2 and do the handheld thing again, that will continue to hold back the console aspect of their hardware.
I honestly just wish they'd release a full fat, truly capable $400 under-the-tv console that's at least as capable as a PS4 Pro / Xbox One X. But I know that's a pipe dream.
Nintendo loves milking tech generations post N64/PSX era where game development got a lot more expensive.
10 years in the GCN/PS2/Wii type tier.
It'll likely be 10 years in the Wii U/360/Switch range of performance.
Switch's successor which should be like a PS4/XB1 but with DLSS and a few more modern architecture features will be something they're probably content with making games on for another 10 years. Once you get to PS4 tier graphics, honestly you achieve a certain level of visual fidelity that makes just about any genre game look good so long as you have a good art staff.
Switch 2 should be able to create graphics like this, probably fairly easily at that:
For a Mario game, Kirby game, the game's are going to start to look like pre-rendered promo shots Nintendo used to use, even for games like Zelda and Xenoblade there is a pretty massive step up.
There's a reason xCloud and Stadia aren't that popular. It's neat for those who live close enough to a server, but Forza Horizon 4 was unplayable on xCloud for me (Banjo Tooie was fine, I'm assuming because the resolution/framerate/visuals were better for the compressor or something). You won't see xCloud or Stadia make handhelds obsolete until the Switch 3 or even Switch 4.
This is an interesting point. Of course, only someone from Nintendo can truly give an answer, but here and there they drop some hints.
Who knows, maybe board rules got updated lately because it feels like way more than in the past are tolerated for some reason.
Don't worry, I feel the exact same way. I'm generally against straightforward "shiny graphics" remakes anyway, and the point is completely defeated if the new graphics already look outdated. Unless this remake is a launch title for a Switch hardware revision, I feel like any straight remake of post-N64 game would look underwhelming. Not necessarily bad, but also not a substantial enough leap to seem justified.
Criticizing a company isn't "console wars". Comparing a company to another company isn't "console wars". That term is being used inappropriately more often lately, I feel. The real question is why does it bother so many people that someone said something negative about a company?
Because I love Nintendo games and I want them to run better. I want to be able to play Age of Calamity without it giving me a migraine. I want to be able to buy a Nintendo game without immediately saying "I could probably run this better on my PC though" as my Switch collects more dust. I want Nintendo to be competent enough to emulate their own games better than fan emulators from a fucking decade ago.
