Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

@canaryfarmer With the huge games lately, even 512 doesn't feel like enough room to breath... I feel like by the wnd of this generation I'll wish I had 4TB

2TB is the max the system is capable of reading, similar to NS1. Given 2TB cards weren't large enough to even hold all my NS1 games, I suspect I'll need x3 of them to swap between by the end of the generation. One main card with choice picks, then one for additional games A-M and another for N-Z.

But that's ok. I like the security of having my games downloaded.

I played Bayonetta 3 yesterday via BC and it's great. I've now become accustomed to NS2 graphics so I could notice the rough edges, but thanks to the extra power it did look noticeably better than NS1, especially in handheld mode.

Also playing some Trials Rising- one of the best video games ever made. The franchise was created and developed by Red Lynx, who was bought by Ubisoft and developed the Switch 2 port of Star Wars Outlaws.

On Switch it stuttered and couldn't hold 30, and had low resolution due to dynamic res for performance reasons. Now it's locked 720p 30fps, which may sound low by Switch 2 standards but it's much better than it was previously, at 480p-540p handheld and stuttering down to 20-25fps.

It's actually the only handheld version of the game (won't run at all on Steamdeck) and now it runs fantastic. And I'm BETTER at the game using the right analog vs analog triggers. It's compatible with the NSO+ GameCube controller analog triggers, but I managed to beat every single Easy, Normal, Hard and Extreme track with a gold medal, twice over (two separate save files) using the right analog. I could never do that with the shoulder triggers.

Time will tell. The Nintendo website says 2TB max right now but the actual micro sd express card standard theoretically allows for larger sizes than 2TB, unlike the previous standard. I'm hoping those larger cards will both exist and be supported by Switch 2 later in the generation.

@JaxonH @FishyS
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure of how hard the boundary between SDXC (2TB) and SDUC (128TB) actually is. With previous capacity changes of SD cards it was simple because the revision had a file system change alongside it (FAT16 -> FAT32 -> exFAT). But SDUC doesn't bring a new file system, it doesn't need to, exFAT technically supports multiple Petabytes

It may well be that some devices which claim to only support SDXC with a, by definition, 2TB limit actually do allow higher capacity cards. And it's more just a case of certifying that level of support was seen as unnecessary given such cards aren't really a thing yet.... and certainly not in the form of microSD Express cards

@skywake @FishyS
Maybe.

But if so, there's still the question of whether it's actually technically feasible, and not prohibitively expensive, and they determine there to be adequate demand. Beyond the question of whether the reader could actually support them.

Basically, I'm not holding my breath.

It's time to call out the recent trend of insisting every game must be 60 fps.

Almost every assessment of Divinity Original Sin 2, which on Switch 2 runs at 60 fps docked and 30 fps in handheld, complains about how "they wish it were 60 in handheld" and "what a shame it is".

And in my mind I think wait a second... hold up. Not so fast. Let's think about this logically. This is a game with character and camera movement slower than a jar molasses in January. Which means the perceived fluidity at 30 frames will actually be smoother than say, a game like DOOM at 60 frames. And nobody thinks the fluidity of DOOM in 60 frames is "unfortunate". So why exactly are so many espousing this opinion?

From what I can surmise, it's group think. People just don't examine issues critically for themselves anymore. Instead, they adopt opinions, whichever are mainstream and commonly parroted, then like a blanket apply it to everything without any consideration for whether it's actually justified.

I'm not saying 60 isn't better. I'm not saying I wouldn't prefer it. But what I am saying is that it's about as unnecessary in a game like Divinity Original Sin 2 as 120 frames are for Metroid Prime 4. Is it nice? Absolutely. Is it really gonna make the experience feel that much smoother? No.

Thoughts? Am I right here or am I just being ignorant?