Yeah you can always cut corners with the GPU if you have to, but Factorio has the large problem of making a CPU-intensive deterministic simulation run at 60 Hz.

Yeah you can always cut corners with the GPU if you have to, but Factorio has the large problem of making a CPU-intensive deterministic simulation run at 60 Hz. Thinking about it some more, there are also probably some tweaks you could use for situations with limited resources which wouldn't apply to most PCs, but would affect the Switch.