Why does Nintendo insist on gimmicks for their consoles? Why couldn't the Switch have just been a regular home console...

Why does Nintendo insist on gimmicks for their consoles? Why couldn't the Switch have just been a regular home console? If I want to take advantage of the "Switch"ing I have to endure a 360p resolution.

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Because they want to win agains nups4 and xbonone

Because that would be dumb as fuck.

After the gamecube failed hard they don't want to enter the graphics pissing contest and I'm fine with that.

XC2 undocked is a fucking mess and the fault is with the devs using a fucking horrible outdated engine.

Because the Switch is a handheld with a video dock.

Yes lets have another boring standard not-pc into the mix and throw creativity out of the window.

You wouldn't fucking buy it.

wait it literally runs at 360p when not docked???

But if games are what matter as is claimed, wouldn't that happen regardless of the gimmick?

I'm sorry I don't want to play console games in 2017 at 360p--mind you this is worse than the Vita's resolution, a handheld that released in 2012.

If creativity gives me 360p 30fps with drops to 15 I would rather have something uncreative.

japs like gimmicks. they made the switch for japanese people, because it was made in japan. nintendo is a japanese company

Has this been patched to run better yet?
I've been putting off playing it for that reason alone.
Also, has the Subs for the JP dub been changed yet? It's fucking retarded having characters using the wrong names.

it's actually because they want to extend the portable mode's battery life, but okay

Then go buy a PS4/Xbone if you want another console that flexes over mediocre results.

386p, but pretty much, yeah.

The Switch is the Hillary regret machine for Americans...if you want to show your support for the biggest loser you can now join the downtrodden Nintendo fans and enjoy your under powered, feature-less waggle box for just the right price to feel really fucked over.

America! Fuck Yeah!

Directly competing it too honest for what Nintendo have been capable of for a long time. They've been nothing since gimmicky distractions trying to skew the market instead of giving people what they actually want, since the Game Cube.
It's a shame Sega went third party instead of Nintendo.

Be glad you can play your handheld on your TV and still feel like you should be comparing it to an actual console faggot

yea monolith didnt care to optimize and used a shitty engine. really sad

>nups4
Buttmad faggot with inferior platform of choice detected

It's a dynamic resolution scaler.
Unfortunately, at times, it does go too far. I'd honestly prefer some slowdown over a resolution from 2002.

Why not give the option to change graphics? Consoles do that now. See the PS4 Pro.

It runs fine at 30fps 720p docked unless there's a ton of effects/enemies on screen when you'll get drops to 15fps.

Subs never change this is standard.

Sorry for being entitled. 360p in 2018 is acceptable, right.

Not at all times but yes.
They use dynamic resolution that lowers the resolution when it's under load.

Why exactly are you complaining about 360p if you are all about playing it like a home console?

>2018
argument invalid. you're not john oliver, you don't get to invoke 'current year'

>It runs fine at 30fps 720p docked
That isn't fine. At 720p it should be running at 60fps.

Many tech sites have called the Switch their favorite device of the year, hell, even their favorite console.
Obviously something clicked with reviewers. The Wii U was trashed for its low performance, but with the Switch having an even bigger gap behind the other console, they praise it this time. Because Nintendo knew it was futile to try to compete in the Power race, when Sony has a full grip on it.

It's a totally conventional, run-of-the-mil portable that happens to have the optional feature of plugging into a TV. There's no "gimmick". It even has a standard duel-stick controller and everything.

Stop speaking in memes. Your entire life is memes. You literally cannot even think. All you do is meme memes.

Why are we blaming the system and not the fact that the game is badly made? Xenoblade 1 stuck to its 480p and X stuck to its 720. This is on a system more powerful than both so it should stick to 720p

I simply only want a switch for the few exclusives that will build up in the upcoming years and then will proceed to go back to my PS4 as I have for months and months. The switch has gotten hacked so now is the time to keep one in a fucking box until I can play all the games for free

Nintendo consoles simply are not worth having as your main console. Too many generation defining games don't appear on their consoles. This has occurred since N64.

Sony consoles are worth supporting as they have long and healthy lifespans

Nintendo consoles are worth pirating and not supporting.

Because it's still a part of the product and a major part of its marketing. If using a product as intended in a certain way gives less than luster results of course I have a right to complain. It's like if you buy a set of speakers that have an option to be wireless, but when you use the wireless option the quality sounds like $5 headphones.

When you're selling a piece of plastic that would be underpowered by the standards of 10 years ago, you need shitty gimmicks to serve as a distraction

Do people really care this much? I don't mind the resolution drop honestly. On the tiny screen its hard to notice anyway unless you stop and really inspect shit. If that is the price I have to pay for a system that does what it does, at the price point it has, with the games that it has available..... I am ok with this.

>when Sony has a full grip on it.
What did you mean by this? Any, and I mean ANY manufacturer can do whatever the fuck they desire. No one has an advantage over anything. Thing is, power will not make your console sell more than the other. The One S did more for Microsoft than the One X despite the latter being the most powerful one at the moment

wtf looks like psp resolution

>When you're selling a piece of plastic that would be underpowered by the standards of 10 years ago
Give us this miracle of a handheld in 2008 then.
I'm super fucking curious.

I have the system myself and it's really obvious it's running at 360p, it looks like Xenoblade 3DS almost. Stop defending it.

Nigga, the fact that it drops to over 360p in one town in a fucking RPG that isn't vita-tier is a godsend. Seriously, why is every screenshot from Torigoth?

>Obviously something clicked with reviewers
Yeah, the understanding that their paycheck is based on keeping up the clicks and traffic. Pissing off Nintendo fanboys generates more traffic short term but in the mid term they lose more in clicks. After the whole GamerGate fiasco, internet gaming website started to become very aware of just how much power a group of angry manchildren can be when it comes to fucking around with advertisement and directing traffic away from certain sites for a limited time.

When Microsoft and Sony zig, Nintendo zoinks.

>in one town
Oh no no no.

That's nowhere near 360p

By that logic the Wii U should've been unanimously praised since it came right after Nintendo's very successful wii console. The Nintendo bonus is shitposting lingo.

>It's a totally conventional, run-of-the-mil portable that happens to have the optional feature of plugging into a TV. There's no "gimmick".
The gimmick is that this functionality is hidden behind a DRM charging dock. You cannot simply take a HDMI and connect the Switch directly to a TV.

>Stop speaking in memes. Your entire life is memes. You literally cannot even think. All you do is meme memes.
Stop being a fanboys. Your entire life is fanboy bullshit. You literally cannot even thing. All you do is defend your cherished corporation.

>The Nintendo bonus is shitposting lingo.
Read the entire post, you fucking intellectually dishonest cretin.

You see these things as gimmicks but a lot of those features become standard if they become popular
They actually state as much during the Switch January Presentation: shit like the XY buttons or portability or analog joysticks become standard once they become popular

I wager being a hybrid console is something that will be considered a standard of Nintendo systems going forward

It should.
Odyssey is 900p/60fps on the same hardware and overall looks way better visually. Zelda is 900p/30fps and does way more with physics than XC2 and still manages to look better visually.

XC2 runs on some old shitty engine that can't handle the game.

Your boogeyman doesn't make that statement false

Because none of the people shitposting about this shit are actually playing the game.

>cretin
White people have the worst insults.

Because there is no difference between Xbox piss4 and PC. They all do the same thing.

386p with the dynamic resolution: it depends on the area with the most dense ones getting as low as 386p and others hanging out around 720p

>Stop liking things I don't like!!!

Don't be such a little bitch. Obviously it isn't a big deal to some people. Myself included. The only time I have ever noticed was the first time I ever undocked it while in the plains. and It was only because I stood there and examined it. While actually playing the game I don't even notice/care.

Like I said, for what it is and what it has the system is great. If that wasn't the case it wouldn't be selling so well, or gettings such high reviews for both hardware and games. This isn't a huge government conspiracy. Take off your tinfoil hat, remove the black curtains off your windows and realize that there are other people out there who don't mind at all.

jesus, that post was hilariously leftardo-soy.,

Please resist the Switch regime harder, Comrad

It sure as heck isn't 720 my friend. Much closer to 360.

You don't have to play a game to have an opinion on it.

>Odyssey is 900p

it's 720i

>hurr why don't people agree with my opinion

>b.b.but muh whites
I won't even bother to go further

Wrong.
eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-does-xenoblade-chronicles-2-push-switch-mobile-mode-too-far
>However, everything changes when playing in handheld mode and image quality takes a nose dive. Unlike docked mode, playing on the go sees the developers deploy a dynamic resolution solution. The results range from 552p or so to 432p and even as low as 368p in some cases. There are probably other values in there as well but it's clear that this is not a game that ever comes close to reaching the native resolution of the Switch's integrated display. In fact, this is one of the lowest resolutions we've pixel counted since the PlayStation Vita era.

>While actually playing the game I don't even notice/care.
This, not to mention the framerate is extremely stable in portable mode. I can hardly care about seeing less pixels on screen when my gameplay isn't being hindered

PSP was 272p, Vita is 540p. Fucking Nintendo.

>552p

Well shit it basically is Vita-tier.

The worst part is that you might actually be seriously thinking this.

I actually never felt any need to own a PS1. It was literally just ports and JRPGs and fucking Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo. N64 had more than enough racing games, and I never liked JRPGs or Metal Gear Solid, and I just played all the arcade and PC games in actual arcades or on actual PCs.

N64 though? That shit had all the racing games and FPSes that I wanted and Miday games and Nintendo/Rare games and a bunch of other exclusives. VASTLY preferred that during the 5th gen. Never missed a PS1 AT ALL.

Why is Kratos wearing hipster glasses?

Even for shitposting, what the fuck is this easily amused garbage? More than half of these are either seen as garbage by their fanbases, past gen ports with minimal upgrades, overpriced as hell compared to PC, and same gen remasters.

>Well shit it basically is Vita-tier.
With much better graphics than your pic though. That looks like PS1 compared to XB2

Liderally blind

>This, not to mention the framerate is extremely stable in portable mode.
It's the same as docked, a silky smooth 30fps with dips to 15 when things get hectic.

Because they're talking about dynamic resolution in handheld mode.
In docked, it sits at 720p consistently and the dynamic resolution only really occurs in handheld

Admittedly, Monolith Soft haven't figured out how to optimize for the Switch like they had ten years to figure out how to do for the Gamecube's framework (which the Wii and Wii U used)

1) Because Gormott is where most of the problem is
2) Shitposters don't actually play games so they all masturbate over the same pics from the same source

>with dips to 15 when things get hectic.
I know what dips to 15 are. I played the original. This game doesn't have that

Huh, I remember reading that it hits as high as 720p in handheld mode.
Hopefully they work on the performance in patches or at least future games

Working within limitations breeds innovation and creativity. If you want an example, go look at the DS and 3ds libraries even though they were competing with superior hardware.

Well yeah it's the dynamic resolution -meme again so of course it scales down.

Point is that the max resolution is 900p.

Then just play it as a home console. What the fuck are you even crying about?

>1) Because Gormott is where most of the problem is
But it's not. I can literally go to any of the towns and post handheld screenshots to prove you wrong. Here is the Argentum Trade Guild for instance.

>sacrificing great features for useless power that will only get wasted on grafics and will never get used for gameplay
Sonygg detected

>most overpowered handheld in history
>"underpowered"

You can pick apart still images all day, when it is in motion you'll not notice

you don't have to play black ops 2 to know it's rehashed garbage

>360p 30fps with drops is "innovation and creativity"

The 3DS and DS were able to make use of the second screen. The Switch doesn't even have that. Literally the only things it has are the handheld mode which runs worse for some titles significantly and using Joycons for two players, which gives you a crappy D-pad.

Yeah, I picked the first game I could think of that was vaguely similar to XB. This is actually a PSP game remade for Vita, so it was a fucking awful example. I've got no clue what other open world RPGs are on Vita, sorry.

Are you saying a Switch with quadruple the power wouldn't make the game better to play?

Have to keep the soytendo fans down my friend.

Monolith always makes these excuses. They said a similar thing for XCX, "It's our first HD game". If Nintendo could "master" Unreal 4 shortly after the Switch's release, they could've learned to use the Switch's more updated hardware.

>you don't have to play "specific shit game that was getting a new entry every 8 months earlier in the decade" to know it's shit
And that example can easily boil down to not liking a genre like how I think sports games are shit because I don't like sports.
Sitting here bitching and moaning about resolution and shit in screenshots is an entirely different thing.

and what does being able to play portable do for gameplay? No one besides Japan plays portables. It's a wasted feature that only hindered the Switch potential power. It could've been close to Xbone power, not 10% better than a Wii u.

>It's supposed to be shitty because nintendo is playing 10D chess to trick game companies to be innovative
The level of mental gymnastics at play here belongs in a museum

the nintendo switch is successful and there's literally

NOTHING

you can do about it

Yes, actually
Silent Hill 1 created incredibly atmosphere by finding creative ways to hide its draw distance
Figuring out how to eke the most performance out of limited hardware can do a lot of good things for modern gaming. It could put an end to pointless open worlds, and force any developer who wants to put one in to optimize properly.
It can provide some limitations on how something is presented or how mechanics work, encouraging interesting workarounds
Limited hardware capability generally pushes more interesting decisions, historically

"No one in Japan plays portables" my ass. A ton of countries ditch cars for public transportation in their major cities, and that's where portable gaming flourishes.

Besides japan*

I'm not talking about its success? I'm talking about the performance of games.

My point was in this case there's yet to be an example of that, i.e., on the Switch. All I've seen thus far are limitations and hindrances.

Wait, did XCX run really poorly for some? And did Nintendo us UR4 for a game? I'm out of the loop

grr, i can bitch that nintendo of america literally came into my house and forced me to buy it. they're monsters

Because they lost the modern console war long ago. If they had released the Switch as just a console that was as powerful as the PS4/Xbox One do you honestly think it would sell. Nintendo has shown themselves to be utterly incompetent when it comes to designing an experience that's even remotely close to the functionality of Xbox Live or PS4 Plus and even those are fundamentally flawed systems. No one would be leaving their friends lists and achievements and "free" games behind to switch to Nintendo's alternative, but they'd be willing to buy something that's poised as a supplement to their main gaming console.

Now I get that you and I don't think that way, but we're faggots posting on an imageboard. Normalfags do think that way and that's the crowd Nintendo needs to make a console profitable.

go play an atari 2600 or something, god you're bad at enjoying things. there's creativity in limitations. these ps4s and xbones that can "do anything" have nothing

the fact that it's selling as fast as the Wii proves that there is a HUGE market for portables in America

this thing has the potential to be the DS all over again

if it gets "revisions" like Nintendo usually does with their portables then it could potentially outsell the PS2 due to people buying multiple versions

A bald assertion isn't an argument. I've already refuted your historical example based arguments as the Switch has no parallel. Give me something else.

Maybe I don't understand something, but how the hell is it able to run things like Skyrim and LA Noire? This looks like a PS1 game.

There is, it's called "waiting one more year after third party sales wither away." Bethseda got lucky with Doom and Skyrim due to hype. Wolfenstein will not sell more than 10k. Rockstar already forsaw this and dumped a LA noire port to say that they aren't interested in anymore potential Switch ports.

>takes a screen from the handheld mode
>blows it up to fit on a PC monitor

WOW WHY DOES THIS LOOK SO BAD?

Ah yes the 3ds was so innovative... even though to play monster hunter competently you literally had to buy a circle pad pro or get a whole "new" system with the dumbass nub. So gald you delusional nintendo fags got cucked out of MHW and no XX localization.