Ah, that's more reasonable than simply being a matter of system bloat. They should test for battery duration while doing that.
Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months agoThe switch natively can tune the performance, which you might notice going from docked to handheld mode and seeing the quality dip.
The emulated setup is probably bypassing some of this, which would likely have a “safety” zone it never leaves to make sure the performance is always smooth, and it’s likely pretty conservative.
The Quest 3 does the same thing and using some tools, you can adjust the hidden visual settings of a game to make it look better or run faster at the cost of some more heat and battery usage. Natively, it really holds back what it will allow the software to do with the hardware.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 6 months ago
scratchee@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Yeah, the switch has an entire core locked off and everything is downclocked to improve battery life and control temperatures. No doubt this emulation gives everything more clock cycles (and perhaps an extra core?). Probably very short on battery and possibly very hot too.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Ah, yes, this makes a lot of sense and is something I had not considered. Great point.
thomas@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Is it possible that the native card reader is slower than the usb-c one ? Maybe a bus bandwidth issue ?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I would assume the cart slot is directly connected to the bus and should be faster than going through the USB port, but that’s just a wild guess since I don’t know enough about hardware.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
The card reader isn’t super fast actually, but most games for the switch don’t really on storage throughput (few heavy assets, etc).
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Yet another problem. Steam Deck let’s me decide how much performance I need and when.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I agree, but I mean… Nintendo’s primary audience are children and adults who aren’t necessarily tech savvy. Having it work is more important than squeezing out every last ounce of power for most consumers.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
That’s what default settings are for. Those who don’t care to configure them don’t need to. Those who do can.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I just think of giving some mercy to the tech support team by not having the options where someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing could fiddle with it. The way you enable developer options in Android would be nice though.
In a perfect world, we’d be able to just use the hardware however the fuck we wanted. 😞
tslnox@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I love the phrasing in the parentheses, which can be read as saying you’re either dev/power user OR a Nintendo product.