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[โ€“] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switch games never at any point looked current gen. They could support some games with current gen mechanics, in a handheld form factor.

What are you talking about? One of the first games they brought out on the system was Doom 2016, a VERY good looking game at the time. The fact that a handheld could run it was mind-blowing, even at half the framerate.

Doom looked awful on the switch. It took an extremely heavy dose of adaptive resolution, with a bunch of effects rendered at 360p, and heavy motion blur just to get the game to function at 30FPS.

And it's a game that uses very careful design to run extremely well on very old PC hardware.