Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
by prmoustache on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:57AM
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That would be counterproductive. Game DEVs would optimize for docked mode primarily and it would clash with the usage of the customers. Many users like the Switch for its portability. My kids only dock the switch when they want to play dance games.
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
by kenhwang on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:05AM
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They already have to optimize for docked/undocked modes separately anyway since it's rendering different resolutions using different hardware speeds depending on whether it's docked or not. There's already a mobile optimized hardware with the Switch Lite too, is it really that much of a stretch to make a dock-optimized version?
Besides, the Steam Deck has shown that even very demanding high end games designed without any consideration for mobile hardware can be sufficiently scaled down to run on mobile hardware (and mobile hardware has gotten powerful enough where the tradeoffs are tolerable).
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
by nirvdrum on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:47AM
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On the other hand, the Steam Deck goes the other way with docking. It doesn't improve quality at all.
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
by ascagnel_ on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:45AM
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People have been asking for a docked-only/screen-less version of the Switch since it was announced, but I don't think that market is big enough to sustain itself (or would be particularly happy with the result.
What I'd like to see is a much stronger CPU/GPU that gets severely undervolted/underclocked while on mobile (or the big cores in it's big.LITTLE design being way bigger), but a dock that comes with fans that force feeds air in to allow the hardware to run significantly faster when docked. Expandable SSD storage on the dock would be excellent as well.