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From what I've been seeing and what people are saying, the port of Madden 26 on Switch 2 is fairly dissapointing.

I think the graphics itself look fine and nearly on par with what you'd see on PS5/XSX, but the performance is where the game suffers. It seems to be targeting 40fps which is fine but slightly disappointing it couldn't get to 60, but the major issue is the random stutters and frame drops mid game, alot of people also say its a big laggy especially in the menus, that definitely needs to get patched.

This definitely feels like a lazy port job on EA's part rather than the Switch 2's fault. The Switch 2 with DLSS has GPU performance similiar to Series S, it's unacceptable to have these random stutters like this. I feel like if EA really tried they could get the game running at 60 with of course slight graphical downgrades compared the other platforms, but at the very least make it a solid 40fps.

It almost makes you want to consider having the PS4 engine of Madden on Switch 2 instead so it's at a smooth 60fps even if the graphics are worse than the 9th gen versions.

But it kinda not super surprising EA got lazy, they are notorious for not really respecting Nintendo as a legit platform. For years they re-released Fifa 18 as the next full price Fifa game only for it to only be roster updates while not getting any new features at all. And considering that this is the first Madden game on Nintendo since 2012, they'd rather not go all in towards a platform they aren't certain about so they did the bare minimum