How Will be Switch 2 Performance Wise?

[SvennoJ]

HoloDust said:

Yes, mobile technology is impressive - one look at Galaxy S25, a mobile phone with GPU that performs better than Switch 2 docked, is enough to be in awe - let alone looking at high end dedicated PC gaming handhelds.

Yet, even those high end PC gaming handhelds don't compare to consoles and are order of magnitude slower than high end PCs - it's simple physics, there is no greater mystery behind it. And there will always be people that don't care about portability and just want something sitting next to TV/monitor and doing its thing as best as possible for the price point.

Portables will be on the same level as dedicated home consoles/PCs only when there is no dedicated hardware on offer to begin with and everything is streamed - then it's matter of your internet connection/subscriber plan how good your game is delivered to you, on whichever device you demand it - and that's not in (so) near future.

It's a lot easier to make something look good on a you tube video or small portable screen.

And yep it's simple physics. Just as streaming can never beat local computing for input lag, portables can never beat a bigger box that's more thermal efficient. A 15 watt device simply cannot deliver the same as a 300 watt device.

Switch 2 has 5 year newer hardware than PS5, 12 year on PS4. It should look better than PS4 at least.

How does it stack up to Quest 3 and what will Quest 4 bring in 2026?

How does DLSS from 360p/540p to 1080p/1440p look on a 83" 4K HDR OLED? (without you tube smoothing everything over)

This generation has been a slow one, most games can still run on last gen hardware. For that Switch 2 is perfectly positioned. But I doubt it will get people to abandon their boxes and stick a tablet next to the TV instead. It's comparable to PS5/Series X, not better. There's no upgrade to Switch 2, it's a compromise for portability. Just like the Switch is for PS4.

We've been here before