| Chrkeller said: Switch 2 is a mid shelf product, which is what it should be. Consoles are about value, bang for the buck, etc. Edit Found one of my comments from 2023.... "Oh yeah, for sure the switch 2 will outclass the steam deck. No doubt. And for sure the switch 2 will be able to run modern games, no doubt. Just not at the fidelity and performance of the ps5. And most people won't care about the fidelity differences. So switch 2 will be fine. " |
You spent a ton of time saying Switch 2 wouldn't be beyond the base PS4 at all, then over time you gradually had to eat those predictions and modify them later on. At one point I remember you said that there's no way the Switch 2 would be able to even run Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade because Intergrade was a PS5 game and that couldn't be possible on the Switch 2 (lol) *let alone* FF7 Rebirth that we now know is confirmed (and Part III also). Pretty sure you would've gone off for ages if I said not only is Integrade going to easily run on Switch 2 but Rebirth and Part III will be on Switch 2 as well.
If I said that a couple of years ago here I'd be attacked non-stop by a group of posters and I was.
Then it became no way can the Switch 2 run a game like Ratchet & Clank on PS5, even in its launch window its running a more ambitious game in Star Wars Outlaws *with* ray tracing no less. Switch 2 could run a game like Ratchet & Clank from the PS5, likely with ease.
You and a few other posters also made a big stink over The Matrix demo running on the Switch 2 story wasting pages and pages of posts about how that couldn't be. Well that looks entirely plausible seeing the final hardware performance today.
System is more powerful than most people expected because they were hung up on "I'm a Nintendo expert because I know what the Wii and Wii U were". You didn't factor in Nintendo's leadership today is entirely different from even 10 years ago and made a lot of assumptions without looking at facts like that. I said many times the number of CUDA cores (1536) was too high for something that was supposed to be a crap/budget piece of hardware and things like DLSS and being able to program from the ground up would make massive differences and I got attacked for saying that, I was 100% correct on that.
This is first 3D mainstream video game console that can run pretty much all of the modern gen games, the PSP and Vita (past "high end" portables) could not do that. This is the first Nintendo hardware in some time that outperforms more expensive devices (like $600+ PC handhelds) in some cases ... that is all very notable and frankly I don't care if some people bet their ego against that and now want to downplay it like this is no big deal. Those are significant points.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 January 2026
