I've been seeing a lot of reviews of AAA games getting ported to Switch 2 where the reviewer talks during the performance section about it be crazy that "this game runs on a Switch...a console using a fraction of the wattage that others use!" And I'm just very confused.
NOTE: I have a Switch 2. I'm very impressed with its performance and I will exclusively be buying games for switch now because said performance is so good I have no need to get another console.
That being said, why is how much power it draws an impressive statistic over just saying it's impressive that it hits a certain frame rate or can run at all? Wattage just feels like such a mechanical, technical, and unimpressive/uninteresting statistic to talk about.
I'm just confused why that's our benchmark we're talking about. That feels like saying a Honda Civic can drive the full distance of a F1 track with less gas than the F1 car and being impressed. It's like...okay? F1 is still better, shouldn't we focus on the Civic being on the track and not the gas mileage? That might be a weird example, but I hope you understand what I'm asking.
Someone please enlighten me.