Well, looks like next gen didn't kill Switch third party support

[Pemalite]

curl-6 said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

Honestly, this feels more like 3rd party support came really late on Switch. Devs were all against Ninty until sales made them change their minds lol

Yeah I suspect they were wary early on because of Wii U, then gradually started getting in on the action as it became more and more clear there was money to be made, til we got to where we are now where even EA can't ignore the opportunity.

Pemalite said:

I would imagine that Overwatch 2 will move the tech requirements forwards a few steps over Overwatch 1 which was already a 30fps title on Switch...

Diablo 4 will be interesting to see if it gets a switch port.

My guess is no for Diablo 4, but Overwatch 2 is currently slated for the Switch. It will be more technically advanced, but Doom Eternal was more advanced than Doom 2016 yet Switch managed to keep pace through devs getting better at extracting performance from the hardware.

I mean, Blizzard have always made it's games extremely scalable, they haven't got a game out on the market which can't be played on a 14~ year old Core 2 Quad Q6600 OC and I doubt Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4 will change that... And that is a good thing for Switch owners.

It's the GPU side where things might get interesting, I would imagine some significant cutbacks to visuals for Overwatch 2 (I.E. No reflections/dynamic lighting and shadows).
Diablo 4 seems to be running more dynamic effects, how they pair that back will be interesting, but at-least Diablo 2 remake is coming to Switch anyway.