| Soundwave said: 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. |
I think we will get a much more realistic perspective when launched when we see retail hardware which may not be quite as powerful as development Switch 2's plus the Switch 2 is on a elderly Samsung mainly 10Nm fabrication process and only a 20Wh battery. Some of the newer PC based portables are on 4Nm process and battery packs up to 90Wh. The Steam deck can only use FSR 3.1 or is it 3.2 which is rubbish upscaling so that isn't really an option for gaming on that platform. I guess you could try rendering at 360p on it and upscaling to a much higher resolution but we know it would look rubbish due to FSR not getting good until FSR 4.0 and that requires a higher level of AMD graphics hardware. However the Switch 2 is excellent hardware for gaming its just I think expectations are a little higher than reality for portable performance. As ever its very interesting to see what level of performance a console offers and how it compares to other platforms.
