It’s getting a sequel? Huh neat.
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i just want
ONE GAME
I DON'T KNOW WHY
BOUGHT A SWITCH 2 WITH NO GAMES TO BUY
ONE GAME
I DON'T KNOW WHY
BOUGHT A SWITCH 2 WITH NO GAMES TO BUY
What getting hugged over by cheating AI or crappy connection on Mario Kart for a couple months isn’t enough for $ 400?
It's $450 actually. $500 for the Mario Kart bundle.
I mean I'm still hoping on getting one soon since I mean...well it's my birthday this month I'm allowed to splurge on something.
Plus like there is the whole thing of 'some Switch 1 games run better on Switch 2'.
Surprised Nintendo didn't advertise this but I guess they didn't want people to make incorrect assumptions or something.
For the record I'm not talking about like the Switch 2 upgrade editions or the games with Switch 2 patches but like...lots of games that struggled to hit their target framerate on the Switch 1 or they had like slowdown or they'd often drop to a lower resolution (if they had a dynamic resolution) basically run at a locked whatever their target FPS was when on the Switch 2. Of course, you ain't gonna get beyond that without a patch so like if a game targeted 720p30 on the Switch 1 but mostly ran at IDK 540p20 on that hardware, on the Switch 2 it's just gonna be 720p30, you ain't gonna magically get 1080p60 or 4K60 out of it y'know?
But that's still good y'know? Like I got Princess Peach Showtime physical - haven't even played it because I heard the performance on the Switch is pretty bad. Read that it runs at a locked 30 fps on the Switch 2 so I'm gonna play it on that instead.
(And that's why, joking aside, I don't really care if the only big exclusive for the Switch 2 right now is Mario Kart World, there are a lot of damn games I wanted on Switch that I skipped out on due to poor performance that hey, if they run good on the Switch 2, I'll grab them)
I mean I'm still hoping on getting one soon since I mean...well it's my birthday this month I'm allowed to splurge on something.
Plus like there is the whole thing of 'some Switch 1 games run better on Switch 2'.
Surprised Nintendo didn't advertise this but I guess they didn't want people to make incorrect assumptions or something.
For the record I'm not talking about like the Switch 2 upgrade editions or the games with Switch 2 patches but like...lots of games that struggled to hit their target framerate on the Switch 1 or they had like slowdown or they'd often drop to a lower resolution (if they had a dynamic resolution) basically run at a locked whatever their target FPS was when on the Switch 2. Of course, you ain't gonna get beyond that without a patch so like if a game targeted 720p30 on the Switch 1 but mostly ran at IDK 540p20 on that hardware, on the Switch 2 it's just gonna be 720p30, you ain't gonna magically get 1080p60 or 4K60 out of it y'know?
But that's still good y'know? Like I got Princess Peach Showtime physical - haven't even played it because I heard the performance on the Switch is pretty bad. Read that it runs at a locked 30 fps on the Switch 2 so I'm gonna play it on that instead.
(And that's why, joking aside, I don't really care if the only big exclusive for the Switch 2 right now is Mario Kart World, there are a lot of damn games I wanted on Switch that I skipped out on due to poor performance that hey, if they run good on the Switch 2, I'll grab them)
Yeah, I posted a video from Modern Vintage Gamer over in the “proper” Nintendo thread, but it basically boils down to this:
Games that were memory bandwidth or GPU bound are broadly running better on the Switch 2. Among the games cited are Borderlands 3 (though, it does have some graphics glitches) and Bayonetta 3, both of which run a stable 60 fps. Witcher 3 and Doom 16, which targeted 30 fps, would see drops when the action got too intense. Those games are running stably at 30. Batman Arkham Knight (and in particular, it’s disastrously choppy-maybe-20fps-vehicle segments) is running a stable 30.
But again, this does not impact resolution: most Switch games use dynamic resolution and if a game is only running a base of 540p…it’s still running 540p. But a smooth and stable fps can make games FAR more playable.
On the flip side, games that were CPU restricted (mostly, simulators or open world stuff, Dragonquest Builders 2 was cited), aren’t seeing nearly as much improvement. The NSW2 processor isn’t as much an improvement as the GPU, so CPU bound games aren’t seeing the same kind of uplift. That said, the improvements on the GPU side DO help. The video showed DQB2 running the mid-teens on the original, but on the NSW2, the game was up into the low/mid-twenties. I think a couple of the big games to be impacted will be Civ6 and Cities Skylines, both tend to be CPU bound as well.
I saw over a dozen NSW2 consoles at Walmart on launch day, around lunch time (no bundles). Without the bundle (and its discounted Mario Kart)…I just couldn’t justify the purchase at the moment. There is, frankly, nothing on the Switch I can’t play elsewhere, and my “big game” is Metroid…which is still releasing in the nebulous future, but also available on the NSW1. If I see the bundle, I’ll pick it up. Nintendo first party stuff rarely see discounts and usually after several years, and with no digital discount, the bundle offers a meaningful value. The system on its own? Not yet.
Games that were memory bandwidth or GPU bound are broadly running better on the Switch 2. Among the games cited are Borderlands 3 (though, it does have some graphics glitches) and Bayonetta 3, both of which run a stable 60 fps. Witcher 3 and Doom 16, which targeted 30 fps, would see drops when the action got too intense. Those games are running stably at 30. Batman Arkham Knight (and in particular, it’s disastrously choppy-maybe-20fps-vehicle segments) is running a stable 30.
But again, this does not impact resolution: most Switch games use dynamic resolution and if a game is only running a base of 540p…it’s still running 540p. But a smooth and stable fps can make games FAR more playable.
On the flip side, games that were CPU restricted (mostly, simulators or open world stuff, Dragonquest Builders 2 was cited), aren’t seeing nearly as much improvement. The NSW2 processor isn’t as much an improvement as the GPU, so CPU bound games aren’t seeing the same kind of uplift. That said, the improvements on the GPU side DO help. The video showed DQB2 running the mid-teens on the original, but on the NSW2, the game was up into the low/mid-twenties. I think a couple of the big games to be impacted will be Civ6 and Cities Skylines, both tend to be CPU bound as well.
I saw over a dozen NSW2 consoles at Walmart on launch day, around lunch time (no bundles). Without the bundle (and its discounted Mario Kart)…I just couldn’t justify the purchase at the moment. There is, frankly, nothing on the Switch I can’t play elsewhere, and my “big game” is Metroid…which is still releasing in the nebulous future, but also available on the NSW1. If I see the bundle, I’ll pick it up. Nintendo first party stuff rarely see discounts and usually after several years, and with no digital discount, the bundle offers a meaningful value. The system on its own? Not yet.
The benefit of not using hardware-based backwards compatibility tbh.
Apart from Mario Kart, the only thing they’re currently offering that I care about is experiencing the Baka Mitai meme in real time on a Nintendo console. I’m probably gonna wait until the Legends Pokemon game to buy one.
Also ETA to our country is like July-August anyway.
Also ETA to our country is like July-August anyway.