The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[zorg1000]

HyrulianScrolls said:

zorg1000 said:

A game can be a hardware showcase while also being on a previous generation device. PS5/XSX are three years old and only have a handful of AAA titles that aren’t on PS4/XBO, many of their best looking games are cross-gen or updated ports.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of those PS5/XSX exclusives could run on PS4/XBO and they just chose to make them exclusive. For example, after seeing God of War: Ragnarok & Horizon: Forbidden West on PS4, I have a hard time believing Spider-Man 2 couldn’t also been on PS4 if they wanted it to be.

Metroid Prime 4 can absolutely be a hardware showcase for Switch 2 even with a Switch 1 version. Higher resolution, higher/more stable frame rate, faster load times, better lighting/particle effects, etc. This is basically what most PS5/XBX games offer over their PS4/XBO versions.

Literally my whole argument has been that Switch 2 is not remotely comparable to the cross gen examples you’re using. It’s going to be a way way bigger jump. It would be like trying to do cross gen titles for PS1 and PS2, there’s a reason we didn’t really see that.

Switch is basically a souped up X360 and if early reports are to be believed, Switch 2 is not much less powerful than a PS5. That’s like a 15 year jump in hardware evolution. Cross gen isn’t gonna be happening unless the devs basically make two separate games (which did used to happen occasionally back in the days of truly big hardware jumps). 

I highly doubt Switch will be almost as powerful as PS5, it may be able to run most current gen games (many of which still release on previous gen consoles) and not appear to be a massive difference to the average person but PS5 will be comfortably more powerful on a technical level.

PS5 costs $450-500, a portable that’s nearly as powerful would likely be $600 or more and Nintendo is not releasing a $600 device. The most likely scenario is that Switch 2 vs PS5 will be similar to Switch vs PS4 but thanks to diminishing returns, engines designed for scalability and techniques like DLSS, the gap might appear closer.