The gap between Switch 2 and PS5 looks smaller than Switch to Steam Deck, lol. Steam Deck really looks really poor in comparison.
Although I don't think Switch 2 is bleeding edge, it's clearly not crap hardware either. It's a good medium of price and performance I think, and probably well worth the $450. This is not a budget device but it doesn't perform like one either.
I'd say it's performance might be in some way ahead of a ROG Ally or about on par in a lot of end results, and that is a $600+ piece of kit. Raw specs only tell a part of the story, it looks like Nvidia really made a very custom chip for Nintendo and a lot of people underestimated how much of a difference system specific optimization does for performance.
Sure some ports will be worse than others, but that's nothing new. Some devs will get better results and put more effort in.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 24 May 2025
