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curl-6 on 13 May 2026
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LipeJJ said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah as someone who played a lot of PS4 to Switch 1, things are night and day better now. I still enjoyed the likes of Witcher 3 or Doom 2016/Eternal on Switch, but the sacrifices could be pretty steep.

On Switch 2, it feels more like the difference between a stronger/weaker console in the same generation, like say Dreamcast vs Gamecube/Xbox, NES vs Master System, or Turbografx-16 vs SNES.

Yeah, and on a side note I think that will probably be the course for the next generation as well, especially because it'll probably be similar to this one but with Path Tracing on most of the time. So I kind of expect Switch 3 to play the same games as PS6/XBNext, and in similar fashion, just with the PT settings disabled or dialed down.

Yeah Digital Foundry actually covered this in their Q&A vid today, that Switch 2 support should hold up better over time than Switch 1 did in terms of ports remaining viable for longer, due to scalability.

Even if PS6/Helix arrive at the end of 2027, which is far from certain, the crossgen period will probably last even longer than it did this gen, with PS5 still getting games even into the 2030s, so the technical baseline should remain within porting distance for a long time.