Xenoblade pushes the Switch's mobile-based Tegra technology hard. It holds up nicely when playing docked, but is this game just too ambitious for portable play?

NE: "Today, we're taking on the difficult task of ranking every single game in the Xenoblade Chronicles series from best to least best."
For me, Xenoblade 2 and 3 and Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth are the best JRPGs or RPGs in general ever made. Yes, they even surpassed Expedition 33 in my honest opinion. Before, the Tales series was among my favorites, but I was very disappointed with their last game, Tales of Arise. Its world has become linear and not as expansive as their previous games. Fortunately, its battle gameplay is still very good. I hope that in the next Tales game, they will expand the game even more.
Hoping for a new Xenoblade game from Monolith Soft in this year's Nintendo General Direct. And it should be a Switch 2 exclusive.
The "worst" Xenoblade game is still better than 95% of games out there. Xenoblade 2 is my favorite rpg ever. All the Xenoblade games have incredible characters, soundtracks, voice acting, stories, world design and combat (save for Xenoblade 1 whose combat, while good, is not incredible).

NE: "We look at each Xenoblade Chronicles game's performance on Nintendo Switch and how each one would be impacted by a Switch 2 Edition or patch."
What makes it even sadder is that if you jailbreak your Switch 1, it actually runs those games better than the Switch 2. Since you can, on the fly, change the rendering resolution and overclock the device to handle it.
I’m currently playing Xenoblade X like that and it’s great, no FPS drops, and even in handheld mode, the game looks very clear. Though, I have to say, I’m still a bit divided on whether I like or dislike the changes they made from the Wii U version. On one hand, everything looks cleaner and the models feel more alive, but on the other hand, it looks less unique.

Monolith Soft may be hinting at a remaster of its action role-playing game, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, for the Nintendo Switch 2.
They should update these games for the switch 2 hardware, might as well as we wait for the next new xenoblade game.
So outside of a side by side comparison you would never notice a difference between the original title and the remaster?
It’s depressing how many people want to keep buying the SAME GAME on a new platform.
Even on the dock it looks like it was made in the 90's. Seriously Nintendo, make a real console.
I play it on dock mode just fine, but then again any console i play after PC gaming seshes i need to take a few minutes to adjust my eyes to the framerate first.
Its just not fair. What does DF expect? The machine got 0.5 teraflops and its going for a massive open world and not cell shaded. There arent miracles....
It runs perfectly fine in mobile mode. Played the last 12 hours of the game in mobile mode and had no problems. Lasted a good 3.5 hours before needing a recharge which isn't bad. Looked great too.
Enjoying the game, but my goodness does it look bad in portable. It even have a dynamic resolution so when things get hectic it drops so low it looks like a 16bit game. Plus then there are times it still stutters.
Even when docked the game doesn't look fantastic. Still a pretty bad draw distance, textures look about as bad as the first game on Wii... at least it doesn't look blurry and doesn't drop res so much while docked.