Derouiche™ Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Nintendo Switch's power is limited when coming to the portable mode, according to the highly technical Nintendo patent that popped up in the last few hours on the Internet. It seems lower resolution on tablet in comparison with the docked mode is not just a matter of the screen, but also a limit coming from the reduced power of the console in the portable mode. Lowering CPU usage will be necessary, it seems, in order to have longer battery life: "…in the portable mode, the image rendering capacity (which can also be referred to as the image generating capacity) is limited. Specifically, in the portable mode, the resolution (in other words, the number of pixels) of images generated by the main unit is lower than that in the console mode." Nintendo has yet to confirm such information coming out from the patent, and we don't truly know if it will be one day or another, but it's likely that similar details might be coming from press giving an early try to the Nintendo Switch in January 12/13's hands on. From that point on we will learn more, but honestly it's not stuff that would be coming as a surprise now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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