Doom: The Dark Ages is apparently also rumored as coming to Switch 2

https://gamingbolt.com/doom-the-dark-ages-will-also-launch-for-nintendo-switch-2-rumour

By far my most anticipated third party game at the moment, would be a great fit as Doom 2016 was one of the early standouts of Switch's lineup

Awesome, if true! I'm looking forward to the upcoming DOOM game!

Something has really been bothering me regarding all the speculation over Switch 2's specs. Not because I don't want it to be true, or because I don't believe the analysts know what they're talking about, but because I can't wrap my head around the argument's logic.

The original Switch was released in 2017, 4 years after the PS4 and the Xbox One, for €300. At the time, it was discussed as slightly less powerful than the Xbox One, which was slightly less powerful than the PS4.

Now, in 2025, 12 years after the PS4 and the Xbox One and 5 years after the PS5 and Xbox Series, with a larger unit, and allegedly for €400, it is supposed to be on par with the PS4 and XOne? You're telling me that the Switch is going to take 8 years to go from slightly less powerful than to on par with a 2013 console?

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for it to be slightly less powerful than either the PS5 or XSX, at least on par with the XSS? Especially with the gap between the power of home and portable consoles slowly but surely narrowing over time, I can't make sense of a future where a PS6 and a PS4-level console coexist in the market.

I don't know who said that the Switch was only slightly less powerful than the XB1.  It was at best one-third as powerful as the XB1 while docked and not much better than the 360 and PS3 in handheld mode, simply with more modern tech and more RAM than those consoles had that allowed it to punch above its weight class.  If it was at 80% of the power of the XB1 we would never have talked about impossible or miracle ports.

This is one case where Digital Foundry looks to be crying wolf.  The actual indications are that the Switch 2 will be around PS4-level in handheld mode and more like the PS4 Pro in docked mode.  This would be a full and true generational leap, and doesn't tell the full story because of the more modern tech, the games that have still been coming to the PS4, and the reports of Nintendo having an even more efficient version of DLSS that will make the gap in power with the current gen consoles less important than ever.  The Switch 2, if all the leaks and reports are to be believed, will be about 6 times as powerful as the og Switch.

Switch was a lot less powerful than the Xbox One which in turn was moderately weaker than PS4. Switch 2 docked should produce significantly better results than PS4.

Let's not forget that PS4 had just about above average specs for its time whereas PS5 had incredible specs for a $400-$500 home console. It's just not realistic to expect the Switch 2 to come as close to PS5 as Switch was to the weak-ish Xbox One.

Yeah the base Switch was quite a bit weaker than Xbox One; basically if the Xbone was a Series X than the Switch would be roughly a Series S.

As for Switch 2 being on par with the 2013 twins, it will probably end up outperforming them significantly in realworld results, just as Switch 1 outperformed PS3/260/Wii U thanks to improvements in efficiency and features in the years since.

Yeah discourse was related to it being compared to Xbox 360 and Wii U, it was never next to the Xbox One which is why most ports were thought impossible/game breaking until we got Doom and Witcher 3... Although both took a dedicated team and 6-12months.

With Switch 2 we know that for any games not CPU bound, it can comfortably be ported to the system whilst maintaining the core aesthetic. We'll see very few games that can't be ported over with a few months of optimisation. 

Yai, I got invited to the Switch 2 event in Berlin on April 27th! Hopefully I will be allowed to take some pictures. I am kinda excited, I have to admit. :)

Yeah considering that how many current gen games are still shared with PS4/XBO and ports like Jedi Survivor as Otter points out, we should see a lot of current gen games make their way to Switch 2, and they should hold up a lot better than similar ports of PS4 games to Switch.

I'm one of those folks who played games like Witcher 3 and Doom Eternal on Switch, so something like Doom The Dark Ages on Switch 2 (if indeed it comes) should be a nice step up.

Not everything will come of course, but I'm expecting better third party support than Switch 1 by virtue of publishers not being caught off guard this time and the fact that more games these days scale to lower end hardware.

Herzliche Gratulation! I'm invited for the Milano event on April 26th!