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Soundwave on 08 July 2025
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curl-6 said:
numberwang said:

In this video: Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty - side by side comaprison on Nintendo Switch 2 and Asus ROG Ally X.
"In handheld mode, Cyberpunk 2077 on Nintendo Switch 2 runs mainly at the target resolution of 1080p with DLSS and 30 FPS with small drops in some locations, for the quality mode.
For Asus ROG Ally X, there is a high-quality graphics preset close in quality to the version on Nintendo Switch, without ray tracing. With a power mode of 25W, the indicators are 1080p, and 30-40 FPS. The launch is performed on Windows 11."

Considering the ROG Ally X is an $800 enthusiast device, it's impressive how close the Switch 2 gets to keeping pace here.

Honestly that's pretty much a wash, some areas the Switch 2 looks a bit better even. 

The crazy thing about it is when you really think about the size of a Switch 2, you have to really remove the Joycons, the hardware punch something that small packs is ridiculous. 

This is a terrific piece of hardware that's far smaller/slimmer than competing devices that are $800. Best Nintendo hardware day 1 since the GameCube, quite easily too. If Nintendo let it overclock it probably would slap these handhelds around even harder. 

It's clear to me too that Nintendo now has younger/newer people in their hardware division too (Genyo Takeda the former head of hardware is now retired) ... this is fantastic work from the new group. 

I'm pretty happy with the hardware we got. I do think Nintendo could have/would have released this a year earlier and COVID fucked up the software pipeline so they couldn't but all other things being equal this is still a very nice piece of kit even for 2025. I even love Mario Kart World too, the MK8 formula was getting stale for me, I love the mixed track concept of World, as a game it just feels much richer than past Mario Kart games. Lovin' it. Street Fighter 6 is a lot of fun on the go too. And unlike the GameCube this is breaking sales records too. Everything is on the up and up. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 08 July 2025