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by cmrdporcupine 3389 days ago
Much of the negativity is related to the fact that the launch game itself does not play well when docked.

And this seems unjustifiable given how well the same chipset does in the NVIDIA Shield, which is capable of driving 4k games just fine.
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Panoramix 3389 days ago
I was not aware of that. Which is strange since I read more than 10 reviews, surely they would have noticed? is this your experience? All I heard was that it runs smoother than in the Wii-U even though it is not optimized for the Switch.
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cmrdporcupine 3389 days ago
Many reviews have pointed out that the 720p tablet run of the game runs smoother than the docked form, which apparently has noticeable frame-rate drops.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t2uY91kyg

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aaron-lebo 3389 days ago
There's really no way that you wouldn't notice it and I've seen it mentioned in every review.
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Panoramix 3389 days ago
I guess it's the way I understood it. "Drops frames occasionally when there are a lot of elements moving on the screen" vs "plays poorly". Disappointing, sure, but hardly a deal breaker. I guess I'll wait a bit and judge on my own.
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rasz_pl 3389 days ago
but its the second kind, Zelda drops to 20fps in empty static scenes.
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nstart 3389 days ago
true. And it's bad that it is THE launch game that suffers from that. It's likely to be caused by a poor port. The original of the game I believe runs at 720p. Scaling it up to 900p (it doesn't even go up to 1080p) in docked mode is probably causing it issues rather than the device actually having problems working in docked mode. I feel pretty confident that patches and updates to both the device and games should work these out :)
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andrepd 3389 days ago
The Nvidia Shield, 4k games? Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that can only be true if the games are very undemanding, like simple 2D games...
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cmrdporcupine 3389 days ago
It outputs 4k resolution no matter what, AFAIK. But yes, the Android TV games in general are not that demanding, so it's not a huge challenge. But they look stellar.
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wernercd 3389 days ago
Output isn't the same as render... upscaling a 720 game isn't the same as rendering a 4k game.
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