How Will be Switch 2 Performance Wise?

[Otter]

curl-6 said:

Pemalite said:

Yeah. It will take a few years.
Even Pokemon Z/A looks like garbage because it's not taking advantage of the Switch 2's hardware nuances.

... But take OLDER games like Cyberpunk which was built from the ground up to take advantage of the SSD, Deferred Rendering, RT and more... It looks great on the Switch 2, much more so than some of the up-coming exclusive titles... And that's a "downgraded" title.

Cyberpunk looks great for sure, definitely the best showcase for the system so far.

At this point, with Nintendo keeping their cards close to their chest, we've seen relatively little of what's to come; Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment is also a game that started out as a Switch 1 title (and it runs on Tecmo Koei's Katana engine which is an unoptimized mess that routinely delivered poor visuals and performance) and the only other upcoming exclusive we have seen is Splatoon Raiders, which as a spinoff looks like its repurposing a lot of material from Splatoon 3, so again likely rooted in Nintendo's last gen machine.

The next Nintendo Direct (rumored for later this month) will hopefully prove illuminating.

Slightly off topic but I do find it interesting that Nintendo allows such poor performance from their partners. Looking at Warriors, but also Echoes of Time and I would argue Pokémon too except the Pokémon Company/Game freak own the majority of that IP