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Nearly one decade after its release, the Switch’s core design is still pretty ingenious: You can play games of all kinds, including graphically-demanding AAA titles, both on your TV as well as on the go. Of course, the console wouldn’t work well if it ran out of battery 30 minutes after playing Skyrim or Tears of the Kingdom, so Nintendo reduces the performance of many games to preserve battery life. The original Switch has a 720p display anyway, so you don’t really notice the downgrade in resolution, and any hit frame rates is justified by, well, the fact you’re playing Skyrim out of the house.
The Switch 2 carries over this design “tradition,” if you will, only more so: The upgraded hardware now supports games with higher resolution and higher frame rates, but you can only run games in 4K when connected
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