VGC: Switch 2 Was Shown At Gamescom Running Matrix Awakens UE5 Demo

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Here's my prediction assuming the rumours are true:

a) Nintendo will prioritize quietness, portability and low power over performance. I highly doubt they will put a Steam Deck or Asus Ally in your hands. I suspect the Switch 2 won't be too much bigger than the current switch which comes with it's own set of limitations. For example, it puts a limitation on how much battery you can pack in, how much cooling you can pack in, how many watts the SoC can have. The Steam Decks SoC just by itself for example uses 15 watts while the Switch including the SoC, the screen and such uses around 15 watts.

b) Switch 2s Raster performance without DLSS imo will be around base PS4 but because of architectural advancements, much faster CPU, SSD, etc, there will be many games where the visual quality will exceed what ps4 is capable of and situations where ps4/pro simply won't be able to run the game. It's kind of like how a Steam Deck can't match up against PS4 in terms of native resolution in a game like God of War but Steam Deck can do things like run Ghost Runner with Ray Tracing enabled that the PS4 is not able to. Another example is any game or engine that requires an SSD, a PS4 simply won't be able to run it not due to a limitation on the gpu but due to being forced to use a hard drive.

c) DLSS is a game changer but it won't perform miracles. At best, you will have the visual quality of a Series S but at a significantly lower Render resolution. Can DLSS upscale Switch 2 from a lower render resolution say 720p and turn out better results than a Series S upscaling from 1080p using FSR 2? We will have to see but there has been countless tests that proved that upscaling DLSS from a lower resolution certainly was able to match or exceed FSR 2 from a higher resolution in terms of image quality. Because of the nature of DLSS which is Ai upscaling trained on super computers vs FSR 2 being a more traditional upscaler and RDNA 2 lacking in Ai acceleration department, it's very unlikely that FSR will catch up to DLSS without requiring RDNA 3 exclusive hardware. With that being said, I doubt the visual quality will match up against Series S in most cases even if the upscaling ends up being superior.