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by maccard 42 days ago
Compared to Xbox and PlayStation it’s vastly underpowered.

They’re not “shitty PC ports”, they’re ports that people tried, likely managed to one platform and then when they tried on switch 2 realised just how far behind it is.
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johnnyanmac 41 days ago
>Compared to Xbox and PlayStation it’s vastly underpowered.

Sure, the same way an IPhone 17 is vastly underpowerred compared to a PS5. I'd hope we don't need to go into details on why that's not a very useful comparison.

>They’re not “shitty PC ports”,

Garbage in, garbage out. They are called "shitty PC ports" because the port to the PC from the PS5/XBX was bad, without the specs excuse.

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Fricken 42 days ago
Yeah, but does having twice the polygons make the game twice as fun? It does not. The Switch is only behind on metrics that don't matter.
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maccard 41 days ago
No, but that's like asking does having half the polygons make it half as fun.
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9x39 42 days ago
How well do Pokopia and Mario Galaxy play on PS and Xbox?

Performance is orthogonal to the Switch aims, which are about those tightly curated Nintendo titles.

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maccard 42 days ago
> Performance is orthogonal to the Switch aims, which are about those tightly curated Nintendo titles.

I disagree. https://opencritic.com/browse/switch%202 Half of the top rated games on Switch 2 are multiplatform titles

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