One thing I haven’t heard anyone mention, and I have no basis other than it seeming obvious to me, so it’s complete speculation, but...
With such huge improvements in battery life and reportedly thermals, couldn’t Nintendo theoretically create two handheld “modes”, one for extended battery life, and one for a performance boost, where the Switch could offer performance similar to docked mode? It seems the same visual fidelity could possibly be obtained, but in 720 (native display resolution) instead of 1080 (most televisions nowadays), meaning it wouldn’t need as much power as it does in docked mode. And yes, that would drop the battery life, but with the new chip maybe the battery life would still be better than the current iteration, or maybe the same, or maybe a little worse. And, while maybe not the Switch Pro, wouldn’t that be a significant performance upgrade? I don’t know about everyone else, but the graphical shortcomings in handheld are the reason I prefer to play the Switch docked. Thoughts?
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One thing I haven’t heard anyone mention, and I have no basis other than it seeming obvious to me, so it’s complete speculation, but...
With such huge improvements in battery life and reportedly thermals, couldn’t Nintendo theoretically create two handheld “modes”, one for extended battery life, and one for a performance boost, where the Switch could offer performance similar to docked mode? It seems the same visual fidelity could possibly be obtained, but in 720 (native display resolution) instead of 1080 (most televisions nowadays), meaning it wouldn’t need as much power as it does in docked mode. And yes, that would drop the battery life, but with the new chip maybe the battery life would still be better than the current iteration, or maybe the same, or maybe a little worse. And, while maybe not the Switch Pro, wouldn’t that be a significant performance upgrade? I don’t know about everyone else, but the graphical shortcomings in handheld are the reason I prefer to play the Switch docked. Thoughts?