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Switch 2 is out! How you classify?

Terribly outdated! 3 5.26%
 
Outdated 1 1.75%
 
Slightly outdated 14 24.56%
 
On point 31 54.39%
 
High tech! 7 12.28%
 
A mixed bag 1 1.75%
 
Total:57

Hogwarts Legacy does have a pretty significant difference between PS5 Pro and Switch 2 when it comes to the lighting and shadows. 

The DoF on the PS5 is also a lot cleaner too. 

The Series S version seems a lot closer to Switch 2 in these areas, yet still moderately better in terms of shadow detail/lighting. 

Quite obvious in the comparison above. Still, with Series S vs. Switch 2 I have to look a lot closer to find things like the missing shadows in the image above, whereas with PS5 Pro vs. Switch 2 (or Series S) it is immediately apparent what the differences are at a quick glance. 

Indoor scenes look so close between Series S, Switch 2, and Steam Deck imo. 

Steam Deck is a lot blurrier, but that is what you'd expect with its target resolution. The assets are probably similar. 



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The fact we are even comparing it to the Playstation 5 Pro is a good thing, especially for a handheld.




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Major thing I've noticed in XSS vs SW2 is texture detail, they are quite a bit better on XSS, with SW2 beating Deck (though I guess SW2 handheld vs Deck would be better comparison), at least in these shots.



Switch 2 looks better than PS5 Pro here, look at the ground texture. The fact that you can compare builds to a mobile console like this is ridiculous to begin with



@Soundwave You should really watch the video (as flawed as it is, but only some 20 days for DF to start releasing comparisons on actual hardware), especially from 7:00 onward for texture comparisons.



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Hogwarts (and SFVI and FF7 Integrade for that matter) looks great on a Switch 2 ... you have to understand the Digital Foundry part of the audience is in reality like 0.00000000000000000000001% of the market. They're not even going to understand what things like DLSS artifacting is or even care, it's just going to look good to them.

To the regular gamer seeing graphics like this on a mainstream portable device is going to blow a lot of their minds, most of them don't really have experience with a Steam Deck or something like that and these results are better than a Steam Deck. To them they're just going to see something that looks like something they'd expect from a PS5 or XBox and it's going to make them say "whoa, cool". 

Regarding Game Chat, I saw this mentioned on another board and I think Nintendo will eventually cut it down and allow for freed up RAM for games because simply speaking ... how many people are really going to buy that separate camera accessory? Like maybe 2 or 3% of the Switch 2 audience? They can keep the simple basic audio chat feature, but there's no real reason in the long term to keep the video portion mandatory, and audio chat requires very little overhead (whereas multiple 1080p video streams is quite a bit different, but most people simply aren't going to have the camera). The microphone is standard for the Switch 2, the camera is not, that just means only a small part of the Switch 2 userbase is ever going to try the video chat stuff. 

Case in point ... of the people who pre-ordered a Switch 2 here, who bothered to also order the Camera? *crickets*. I like the option of using it, but really no one's running out to buy that accessory. For something like that to seriously take off, a camera needed to be build into the system standard, no one really wants to buy some 1990s looking web cam thing that has to be tethered to a mobile console. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 16 May 2025

Yes, they do look great - within the limits of what that class of mobile hardware can pull off (though these are all docked performance captures, so not representative of portable performance/quality).
Going with wild statements like "looks better than PS5 Pro"...not so great.



Soundwave said:

you have to understand the Digital Foundry part of the audience is in reality like 0.00000000000000000000001% of the market.

That would be only 0.0000000000000008 people on earth.

Their audience is much bigger.



Soundwave said:

To the regular gamer seeing graphics like this on a mainstream portable device is going to blow a lot of their minds, most of them don't really have experience with a Steam Deck or something like that and these results are better than a Steam Deck. To them they're just going to see something that looks like something they'd expect from a PS5 or XBox and it's going to make them say "whoa, cool". 

Regarding Game Chat, I saw this mentioned on another board and I think Nintendo will eventually cut it down and allow for freed up RAM for games because simply speaking ... how many people are really going to buy that separate camera accessory?

But why freeing up a little bit of RAM by cutting down the Game Chat feature?

According to your logic "the regular gamer" won't see the benefits of the additional RAM.

Ignorance is bliss.



Conina said:
Soundwave said:

To the regular gamer seeing graphics like this on a mainstream portable device is going to blow a lot of their minds, most of them don't really have experience with a Steam Deck or something like that and these results are better than a Steam Deck. To them they're just going to see something that looks like something they'd expect from a PS5 or XBox and it's going to make them say "whoa, cool". 

Regarding Game Chat, I saw this mentioned on another board and I think Nintendo will eventually cut it down and allow for freed up RAM for games because simply speaking ... how many people are really going to buy that separate camera accessory?

But why freeing up a little bit of RAM by cutting down the Game Chat feature?

According to your logic "the regular gamer" won't see the benefits of the additional RAM.

Ignorance is bliss.

Because other systems have freed up RAM and CPU usage on the OS side over time. For the Switch 2 are even 1/10 people going to buy that camera? I doubt it. 

I don't think in the long run as a result they'll have to mandate the video chat function, they could keep Game Chat but some games that want the extra RAM could likely run off a much lighter version of Game Chat that is mainly based around voice chat. Which is fine. 

In other news, here's a new look at Cyberpunk 2077 on the Switch 2 with head to head comparison to the PS5.