Been playing Hogwarts Legacy on the Switch 2. Have to say, it feels like playing it on my RTX 4060 laptop in terms of visuals. 

Image quality is probably a bit worse, but when you are 3m away rather than 1m, it looks very similar. 

It does look good.

Does it behaves in that scene same as in that official video, with that nasty DLSS disocclusion artifacts?

That scene moved pretty fast so it is hard to notice without slowing down, but I think the artifacting is still there, although maybe less obvious. You also see it in other parts of the game where it is more obvious. One positive is that temporal instability is usually most pronounced in parts of the scene that are in your peripheral vision as you pan the camera. 

The more noticeable thing is there is a lot of noise and artifacting around hair in this version of the game. Quite a bit of edge-aliasing/stair-stepping, especially in motion too. Much of this is only noticeable when you are pretty close though (or if you have excellent vision I guess.) Shadows are also lower quality than you'd see on other platforms. 

I think for people who prefer a clearer, sharper image with some artifacting rather than a blurry one without it, this is a preferable implementation. I was playing on a 50 inch television about 8-10 feet away and the image looks pretty clean from that distance. Performance was also great.

When I originally played the game, I played a lot of it on a Steam Deck and this is like night and day compared to that. 

Night and day when comparing SW2 handheld vs Steam Deck?

Yes. Even in handheld mode the game looks pretty great on SW2. Basically same (or similar) graphic settings as docked mode, and the image is still very sharp on the smaller screen even with the lower resolution.  

I am fuzzy on the details since its been two years, but I think on Steam Deck I was playing all low settings 800p FSR 2 Quality 30fps or something like that. Might have reduced the resolution to get 40fps as well. In either case, the image was a lot softer than what you get in Switch 2 handheld mode. 

I can check again since my partner still has the Steam Deck with the game installed. 

Try it with FSR 3 quality and frame generation. That gives enough headroom for medium to high settings.

I played it a while with these settings:

Hogwarts Castle Switch 2 (1080p):

Hogwarts Castle Steam Deck (800p):

Griffin Flight Switch 2 (1080p):

Griffin Flight Steam Deck (800p):

Honeydukes Switch 2 (1080p):

Honeydukes Steam Deck (800p):

Greenhouse Switch 2 (1080p):

Greenhouse Steam Deck (800p):

Forbidden Forest Switch 2 (1080p):

Forbidden Forest Steam Deck (800p):

Nice Scenery Switch 2 (1080p):

Nice Scenery Steam Deck (800p):

Hogwarts Bridge Switch 2 (Youtube 1440p comparison):

Hogwarts Bridge Steam Deck (800p):

Great Hall Switch 2 (Youtube 1440p comparison):

Great Hall Steam Deck (800p):

Last edited by Conina - on 11 May 2025

Definitely will try it out. FSR3 wasn't out yet when I first played it so that is indeed a big change. 

Might compare the Z1E Rog Ally (which is my current main PC handheld), Steam Deck, and Switch 2 Handheld mode later today and share my thoughts. 

Hm, just watched latest DF direct...in Q&A section they talked a bit about DLSS on SW2...so far, they're thinking there indeed is some DLSS lite model that's less precise than standard PC models, that's used in Hogwarts, Fast Fusion and Scarlet/Violet, with CP2077 using PC alike DLSS model, but they're still uncertain and need to "talk to developers", among other things.

Tested Hogwarts Legacy on Steam Deck (non-OLED), Rog Ally (Performance - 15W and Turbo -30W), and Switch 2 (handheld and docked.) 

Chose pretty much the initial scene of the game. 

Steam Deck (Mix of Medium-High settings, XESS Ultra Quality Plus @800p) Played at 15W, averaging 33 fps (with a near-perfect 30fps lock.) 

Rog Ally Z1e 15W (Mix of medium and high settings, XESS Quality 1080p) Frame rate drops to 28fps for the 1% lows, but otherwise smooth. 

Rog Ally 30W (Same settings as 15W but Ultra Quality for the XESS setting) 

Switch 2 Handheld 

Switch 2 Docked

Looks quite good - well, except for the obvious.

That upscaling solution on SW2 completely breaks down on some edges of the lower part of the coat, just like in all the cases from that video.

Is that FOV on ROG intentionally wider than on Deck and SW2?