Honestly that's pretty much a wash, some areas the Switch 2 looks a bit better even. 

The crazy thing about it is when you really think about the size of a Switch 2, you have to really remove the Joycons, the hardware punch something that small packs is ridiculous. 

This is a terrific piece of hardware that's far smaller/slimmer than competing devices that are $800. Best Nintendo hardware day 1 since the GameCube, quite easily too. If Nintendo let it overclock it probably would slap these handhelds around even harder. 

It's clear to me too that Nintendo now has younger/newer people in their hardware division too (Genyo Takeda the former head of hardware is now retired) ... this is fantastic work from the new group. 

I'm pretty happy with the hardware we got. I do think Nintendo could have/would have released this a year earlier and COVID fucked up the software pipeline so they couldn't but all other things being equal this is still a very nice piece of kit even for 2025. I even love Mario Kart World too, the MK8 formula was getting stale for me, I love the mixed track concept of World, as a game it just feels much richer than past Mario Kart games. Lovin' it. Street Fighter 6 is a lot of fun on the go too. And unlike the GameCube this is breaking sales records too. Everything is on the up and up. 

Looks like I am sticking to my Rog Ally Z1e until a handheld with TB5/USB 4v2 releases.

Not really hard to see why the Switch 2 is doing so great with the general public.

The hardware is legit quite good and most people don't own a Steam Deck, let alone a ROG Ally, these devices are a niche inside of a niche with virtually no marketshare. Even if they did the Switch 2 does great against those devices, is significantly cheaper and more mass market friendly form factor than the Ally X. 

Enthusiasts really just live inside their own niche bubble totally removed from reality. The general perception from the public even the "gaming public" (taking like "core gamers" who don't post on video game forums or stuff like that) is very positive for the Switch 2, Nintendo got a lot right with the hardware.

When I show people things like Cyberpunk and Street Fighter VI and Mario Kart on my Switch 2, even PS5 owners, the general reception I get is "wow, that looks really good", not "what's the response time of the panel?" lol. 

I think the younger hardware designers at Nintendo did a good job of making people say "wow" while also balancing out a lot of considerations with a relatively small size of the actual base unit, relatively small battery, etc. etc. Those magnetic Joycons are also so addicting so snap in/out, I almost dislike it because I keep wanting to detach and reattach them lol. 

Got Yakuza 0 yesterday for Switch 2 and it looks absolutely amazing. I don't know about actual specs, but it looks like native 4K to me with rock solid 60 fps. On the go it looks better than the Steam version on my Legion Go, which already looked quite impressive. No HDR though, which is a little bit of a bummer. But other than that I can't wait to play more of it. I have to work right now though. =D

I'm conflicted on backwards compatibility on Switch 2.

While performance is great (as in, framerate and loading times are much improved over Switch 1), image quality in portable mode is very disappointing in games that have not recieved a Switch 2 update. In most cases, games look worse than they did on Switch 1. Games that run at 720p look just fine, although not as crisp as they did on the smaller 1:1 720p display of the Switch 1. But anything under that looks blurrier and with more aliasing. Playing games like DOOM (2016) or Bayonetta 3 in handheld mode has become an awful experience so far, specially considering that on Switch 1 they looked a bit blurry, but not nearly as bad. You would think that games that used dynamic resolution would look better due to them hitting their ceiling constantly... But no. They look quite bad.

I wish they would just make every game run its docked profile at all times on Switch 2. I don't know how feasible this would be, but since we know many games (especially old third party titles) won't get an upgrade, maybe Nintendo could just make a firmware update that fixes this.

Steam Deck vs Switch 2

Power on time: 36s vs. 12s

Battery in CP2077: 1h17m vs. 2h07m

2:48 comparison FSR vs. DLSS upscaling.

The static image doesn't show the amount of pixel crawl with FSR uspcaling. Also look at the detail for the bushes and the road in the foreground

Yeah, I'm even thinking of making a thread about this. Like, I'd love to play MHRise in 60Frames without loading the PC.

Prices have leaked for the ROG Ally XBox version and ROG Ally XBox X ...

Spanish gaming website 3DJuegos spotted what look like leaked listings for both the ROG Xbox Ally and the ROG Xbox Ally X on the Asus store for €599 and €899 respectively.

That would be like $700 and $1050 USD and no OLED.

Suddenly $450 for the performance level you get from a Switch 2 compares likely quite favorably. It's all fun and games when you're mocking up a hardwre wish list not realizing companies are not going to subsidize and lose $100-$200+ a unit going forward anymore. It's not as simple as saying "just gimme an 8 inch OLED and 16GB RAM and bump up the GPU too!!! I need mah bleeding edge!!". You end up in $700 land very quickly. 

If Nintendo/Nvidia initially aimed for a 2025 release they almost certainly could've gone full Lovelace & 16GB of LPDDR5X for a similar price (say, within +$20 to $50 of Switch 2 at most) without a loss for either company. 

Given how efficient they got the T239 to be in the end, I am not sure if we would have seen as large a leap as we'd normally expect from Ampere -> Lovelace based on the consumer desktop/laptop chips. 

So we'd probably be looking at a Rog Ally -> Rog Ally X (2024) or Steam Deck -> Steam Deck OLED sort of performance difference, with maybe most of the gains being in battery life.

The OLED screen (unless they ditched VRR) likely is a fantasy want though.