As a gamer, why should I explicitly care about the hardware? If the experience is good, I don't care what is inside it. The graphics appear to be "good enough".
Not the same games but Uncharted 4 multiplayer is 1080p 60fps and silky smooth. That's not even talking about PC games - it's dirt cheap to run CSGO at 90 fps and 1440p these days.
Bad performance detracts from the experience and it also limits what Nintendo can do with the console over the next three or four years.
I (and many other people) want to play Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, etc., not silky smooth PC games.
1) rare
2) mostly resolved by the day 1 patch that Nintendo released
Uncharted 4 is only 900p 60fps in multiplayer, and 1080p 30fps in single player (on a regular PS4)
But regardless, if your going to switch up the games, Fast RMX runs at 1080p 60fps on the Switch, even in multiplayer mode.
Yeah, the Switch does not hit the performance of a PS4. But the Switch has just 1/3rd the power draw of a Slim PS4. (Roughly 30 watts average for the Switch, compared to roughly 80 watts average for the Slim PS4). It's not bad hardware at all, when you consider the power budget it's required to operate under, in order to be portable.
No one gives a shit anyway. If people cared they wouldn't ever bother with consoles.
I'd rather have their stuff than crappy pseudo-PCs.
The only reason to get a console these days, besides the switch, is for the exclusivity. With the switch you also get a handheld console in addition to exclusivities.
Can you link me to where I can buy this other portable gaming console which apparently even has a Blu-Ray player despite the small form factor?
Digital Foundry covered this extensively
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoiGxl6bnE
If you're going to pretend to make authoritative statements on the basis of "it's been discussed to death", then you should say, "Breath of the Wild, whatever its issues, is one of the best games ever made".
See how unconvincing this approach is to someone who disagrees?
It can be one of the greatest games ever made by subjective and objective measures and suffer performance issues.
The only way BotW does not have performance issues is if you consider sub-30 fps acceptable.
If you can't see one, why assume one exists just out of sight?
>The only way BotW does not have performance issues is if you consider sub-30 fps acceptable.
The popularity of the game implies that most people do.
The only condescending statement here is the one you made: "This has been discussed, analyzed, and recorded to death. Breath of the Wild has framerate issues."
Next you'll tell me humans never landed on the moon. I'm done!
If you want to provide facts, say what the framerate is, don't say that there are framerate issues. To continue my comparison, it is a fact that a certain reviewer assigned the game a certain score. Whether that is indicative of the quality is opinion, as are the reviews themselves.
Suffice it to say, gamers tend to have poor crystal balls.
My sources all tell me it is because the hardware is woefully underpowered (I don't think I can share any details), not because the software engineers were rushed (most game development is done under what you would consider "rushed" timelines, compared to the rest of the software industry as a whole).
Although FF7 began life on the SNES game, both that and an N64 version were completely scrapped before work started on the PSN version. I'd submit that starting an engine from scratch is a more straightforward task than getting partially through development on one platform, then having to port the engine and ensure it works reasonably well on both the old platform and a new one.
Regardless of whether or not FF7 is a good or bad example, I agree with the general sentiment that there are other developers that have done a better job porting games across disparate platforms.
My comment was merely to point out that having knowledge of hardware nuances isn't the same as being aggressive in optimizing for those nuances.
I also don't consider a Tegra X1 to be woefully underpowered in the Switch's form factor. Given that and the other evidence of a rushed launch, it seems more likely to me that insufficient optimization is to blame.
But I look forward to additional details, post-mortems, etc. becoming available (from you and others) as NDAS and such expire.