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by fishtacos 911 days ago
My laptop runs Kbby Lake and Intel HD 620 and can't match the Switch's 30 fps perf. It's incredible what it can do. The 3070 that runs 220+W on my desktop is hard to replace ore minituarize.
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There is a lot of space between a 3070 and a Switch. e.g. a few (I'd guess ~5) year old iPhones/iPads are considerably more powerful than the Switch. Unfortunately, it's just not a great platform for gaming.
Also keep in mind that iPhones and iPads were a lot more expensive than the Switch.

(Of course, Nintendo still sells (nearly) the same switch for nearly the same price, but a five your old mobile device would go for a lot less nowadays.)

The cheapeast iPad is ~$330 which is about the same as the Switch.

Also the Steam Deck starts at $399.

Ehh one is a gaming machine the other a general purpose machine with a really weak GPU.