Hogwarts (and SFVI and FF7 Integrade for that matter) looks great on a Switch 2 ... you have to understand the Digital Foundry part of the audience is in reality like 0.00000000000000000000001% of the market. They're not even going to understand what things like DLSS artifacting is or even care, it's just going to look good to them.
To the regular gamer seeing graphics like this on a mainstream portable device is going to blow a lot of their minds, most of them don't really have experience with a Steam Deck or something like that and these results are better than a Steam Deck. To them they're just going to see something that looks like something they'd expect from a PS5 or XBox and it's going to make them say "whoa, cool".
Regarding Game Chat, I saw this mentioned on another board and I think Nintendo will eventually cut it down and allow for freed up RAM for games because simply speaking ... how many people are really going to buy that separate camera accessory? Like maybe 2 or 3% of the Switch 2 audience? They can keep the simple basic audio chat feature, but there's no real reason in the long term to keep the video portion mandatory, and audio chat requires very little overhead (whereas multiple 1080p video streams is quite a bit different, but most people simply aren't going to have the camera). The microphone is standard for the Switch 2, the camera is not, that just means only a small part of the Switch 2 userbase is ever going to try the video chat stuff.
Case in point ... of the people who pre-ordered a Switch 2 here, who bothered to also order the Camera? *crickets*. I like the option of using it, but really no one's running out to buy that accessory. For something like that to seriously take off, a camera needed to be build into the system standard, no one really wants to buy some 1990s looking web cam thing that has to be tethered to a mobile console.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 16 May 2025
