Borderlands 4 is a PS5-XBS next gen only title, so that's a good get for the Switch 2.
I got to try Madden NFL at a friend's house and it's a lot of fun, him and his son love it, it's basically a portable version of the PS5 game for them and they're thrilled with being able to take it on the go. It does run smoother off the internal storage. They're going to buy a second Switch 2 just because of that, the son will be able to take his own version on the go when football season starts for him with back to school and the dad will be able to take one on his business trips. They also want to get ahead of any potential price increase. People really miss the forest from the trees on a lot of these things.
There will be tons of PS5 games on the Switch 2, quite possibly even Sony's own PS5 titles at some point. Indiana Jones being confirmed and Starfield basically being confirmed by Nate is going to be just the beginning.
As with any platform the quality of a port comes down to how much effort a developer is willing to put in. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade looks and runs great on the system and has the PS5-lighting too, not the PS4 version.
If Nintendo wants to ease performance restrictions and let the system clock a bit higher in the future, I think that would be great. The system is watt for watt is a little monster, what it can do with only 9-10 watts is outstanding engineering. I think you will see when the system is inevitably hacked and overclocked that it can indeed run a lot of these 30 fps with dips games at 40 fps and some dips but still above 30 type performance. We saw with Switch 1 overclocks many games easily got 10-20 fps+ bumps in performance in some cases a full 30 fps (Fortnite, FC Soccer, Zelda: BOTW, etc.) uplift, this wouldn't need to be that dramatic.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 22 August 2025
