Not Quite Next-Gen
For all of its myriad innovations, there’s one thing Breath of the Wild does that many other Nintendo games before it did – comparatively for their time – just as well. It somehow manages to look visually breathtaking despite running on Nintendo hardware with specs that are appreciably worse than the competition’s. Meanwhile, Nintendo still hasn’t shown us almost anything outside of its own stable of releases that can go toe-to-toe with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games. Arms is also going with the stylistic beauty approach that helps mask the Switch’s inability to keep up with other modern consoles. Further down the road, Super Mario Odyssey looks weird but fantastic, and Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2 look like the slightly improved versions of Wii U games that they are.
While the software wizards at Nintendo do their magic to conceal Switch’s power outage, it would seem the company’s hardware team had more trouble than just trying to fit enough (affordable) power into a phablet device without compromising its battery life. In attempting that balancing act, it seems they may have overlooked a problem with how much heat the unit kicks off while docked.
