People joke that Sony games are "generic third person open world collectathons", but you can't deny their games are visually stunning and are filled with content. I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima and it's so damn gorgeous & fun to play. Even Horizon Zero Dawn & the Uncharted series are a feast for the eyes, with HZD having copious content. Only reason I don't play the PS4's other console exclusives like Days Gone or the second Horizon is because the latter is pretentious and has Nikocado Avocado starring as Aloy, & the former is a game about zombies, a genre I'm not too fond of.

The Switch on the other hand is so underpowered that it can't even run Skyrim without looking worse than its XBOX 360 version. It can't run something on the scale or visuals as the aforementioned games, or Bloodborne, or any other Sony exclusive, and don't get me started on comparing it to the Steam Deck...

@RehnSturm256 I really don't give a fuck, Sony can choke on a dick for banning any kind of titilation in anime games.

@weanoob but any system & PC can run anime games they're practically the least strenuous type of game out there.
Yet Nintendo can't even make a Pokemon game look and run well, and something like
Fire Emblem Three Houses cut so many corners, like using STILL IMAGES stretched & bent for support cutscenes, and it generally was not a visually good looking game. I liked it for its characters & political storytelling, but its gameplay & graphics I would say felt & looked worse than the 3DS Fire Emblem games!

@RehnSturm256 @weanoob MH Rise is probably the best looking game on the switch imo.

Expecting a handheld released six years ago to compete with consoles and PCs in terms of graphics is just retarded. Graphics were never a selling point for the switch; portability was.

@galena @weanoob no, MH Rise runs jittery, and you can tell THAT’S what matters for people because everyone hopped onto PC which at least holds its frames.
The preference of portability and home console for me changed after the coof years, because I wasn’t traveling for work as much. And I had no one to play couch co op with the Switch anyway, so there goes more of its portability benefits. What’s the point of a big screen if I can’t consoom something that looks good?

@RehnSturm256 @weanoob Main appeal of it is exclusives, imo. Unless you're emulating them, in which case that's a moot point. But yeah, portability isn't a very good selling point in general for a console, if you're an adult, since there are less situations it'll be useful.

@galena @weanoob and exclusives like Pokémon and Fire Emblem are the ones worst hit by their weak hardware/lazy devs. Big titles there. Eight year old genes on the PS4 & Xbox run better than Switch 2022 games. And since Nintendo is now blatantly getting pozzed with the same sickness as the other companies, then we’re getting to the point where Nintendo really isn’t doing anything unique anymore. :awoo_sad:

@RehnSturm256 @galena @weanoob
I love that you're shitting on the Switch for being weak, when literally no one argued that it's some high performance gaming powerhouse, and this has been the status-quo at Nintendo for 3 generations now.

@alyx @galena @weanoob you kissed the point of the last part of my previous post: this has been the status quo for Nintendo, but now it’s not even putting quality work into its biggest exclusives and it’s censoring and pandering just like the other companies. What is its identity now? It’s just “oh that’s the system that censors its Jap games and has Reddit-speaking translators making games that is TWO generations behind instead of one”.

@RehnSturm256 @galena @weanoob
If you want to point out the quality of their games has fallen, sure. But there's no point complaining about hardware performance, even if it's 3 generations behind, because that's not people care about from them.
You're using your time better by pointing out Pokemon mechanics are bad or outdated, than complaining about early 2000s graphics.