The Legend Of Zelda with cutting edge graphics will never happen and that’s a shame – Reader’s Feature

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A reader is frustrated that Nintendo games will never have state-of-the-art graphics and thinks a partnership with Google could be the answer.

In my long experience of playing video games I would say that it’s very obvious that Nintendo is the best developer there’s ever been and ever likely will be, considering how much experience they’ve built up over the decades. You might not like their stuff but no one can deny their quality and the level of their success.

There is a problem with Nintendo though (well, actually there’s several but let’s keep things focused) and that’s that since the GameCube era they’ve always gone for low-powered hardware and gimmicks over high-powered, cutting edge graphics. It’s a choice to distinguish themselves from their rivals and its clearly worked. I don’t even mean gimmick as a bad thing, it’s just they’ve gone for unusual controls or form factor over graphics every time since 2006.

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to imagine that the Switch 2 is going to follow the same logic. In fact, I’d be shocked if it looked very different from the current Switch. I’m sure they’ll make some changes but it’s pretty obvious that the basic Switch design is perfect as far as hybrid consoles go, especially given the versatility of the Joy-Cons.

My concern is that the Switch 2 will still be underpowered. I’m willing to bet it won’t be more powerful than the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and while that’s an improvement on the original Switch the difference this makes will be relatively small, and it still won’t be able to run new multiformat games, just as the current Switch can’t.

That’s probably what most people already assume but I wish things were different. I wish Nintendo could do its crazy console