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Slownenberg on 13 September 2023
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Soundwave said:

I think Switch 2 is going to have significantly better 3rd party support than Switch 1, which was already not that bad.

Developers are going to make a ton of ports to Switch 2 + Apple devices and then you still have XBox Series S ... all of these devices are going to push developers to make sure their games can scale well.

I thought that before the Apple stuff yesterday, but the Apple thing is going to help Nintendo a lot in terms of getting games IMO. You can't ignore that many potential customers, it is a customer base that dwarfs even PS5/XSX and ports between Apple devices and Switch 2 should be quite easy.

Agree on Switch 2 getting a lot more third party support. First off, there will probably be lots of PS4/XBox1 games coming to Switch 2 running as good if not better on Switch 2 than they did on those consoles. Since plenty of games, I think especially on Playstation, have been cross-gen between PS4 and PS5, that also means Switch 2 will probably be getting some PS4 ports of current gen games that just came out in the past few years.

Furthermore, Switch will probably be able to get games ported from current gen consoles just by turning down the settings and progamming in DLSS to work with minimal other changes other than maybe the most high end current gen console games. So Switch 2 should get a lot more current console ports than Switch because the main reason to not port a game from PS4/XB1 to Switch was the amount of downgrading work that was required which usually ends up with just a game that looks much worse than games that were built for the Switch.

That's a very different situation than the Switch which got a handful of current console ports (usually years after they came out on the consoles) and decade old PS360 games.

I don't know what the Apple news is but I assume it is something about Apple trying to get more non-mobile-like games on mobile?