Semi-shitposting aside it's obviously more nuanced than that. Already mentioned it but Soul Hackers 2 is a game from the same division that developed Shin Megami Tensei 5, and it's less ambitious from both a gameplay and visual perspective and has performance issues on machines much more powerful than Switch.
Star Ocean 6 is another example of a mid tier game with performance struggles on hardware much more powerful than Switch, with the image quality on PS4/XBO arguably being worse than Xenoblade 3 on Switch. One of the key criticisms in reviews was its poor production values too.
Oh yeah. some are just strugling, be it production problems, be it budget problems. its obviously that they expected less sales from a side project thats not nintendo backed, and they obviously reused a ton of models.
SO6... i was honestly suprized that it got greenlit. But yeah, going by the trailers that game really doesnt look much better or even better then XC3. theres only so much brute force (compute power) can do.
Yet i still stand by my opinion that switch is at the point where it limits game design and world design to such a degree that its time for a sequell.
Just thinking how the devs feel when every gadget they have (laptop, tablet, phone, pc) is probably stronger then the hardware they develop for. Probably somewhat limited. (at least those that do more then indie development, especially those that wana build big worlds)
There is a reason why we still dont have Genshin Inpact, having the game on switch would make future development some form of hell when they expand the world in ways the switch cant handle.
Like I said in another thread, I am someone who probably has lower standards than the average poster here, because I don't own a PlayStation, an XBOX, or a relatively powerful PC. But I would certainly be happy if we got a graphical step forward (or maybe a leap forward) via new hardware.
Switch is my strongest gaming hardware, my Laptop has 16GB of ram, but the integrated intel iris graphics card is not stronger.
But i really feel like its time for a bump on the switch. I played the Wii u on an 1080p screen, and 720 felt okay.
switches 720-900 in most cases (rarely that it gets to 1080) feels worse now.
Games that do run at 1080 usually look crisp enough for me (smash, nier atomata), but those are rare.