Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

@Matt_Barber
Idk man, almost all those games released on PS4, which is about as powerful as a Steamdeck. I can crush all their games with my 2080 ti, which is several years outdated at this point.

Because of diminishing returns, the difference in visuals between low-medium settings and high-ultra are fairly negligible. And even then you don't need some super high end rig to run their games at high settings.

@JaxonH, you raise a lot of valid points. I can definitely see why someone would go for convenience and not having to have shelves full of physical media.

I still prefer physical media though, and I have a reason for it. The more time goes on, the less I trust tech companies to not mess with my stuff without my permission. I prefer to actually own as much of my media as possible. And because of that, I prefer to buy physical, even though for video games I was exclusively digital from 2023-2024, back when I was less paranoid about some things.

When I buy a digital Nintendo game, it is kinda just stuck in the Nintendo ecosystem. And sometimes the Nintendo ecosystem just gets randomly changed for no reason. And now that I've connected my console to the internet, and since I have refused to download the most recent update, any game I play, I have to press "start software" two different times, once for the initial warning, and second for the "data won't be saved to the cloud unless you update" warning. It's the same for any of my physical games too. Freaking pain. All of this is because I set up my Switch's internet and created a Nintendo Account so I could buy digital Nintendo games, but I refuse to update because of my slowly growing update paranoia (you can read more about that in my post in the Nintendo Switch Thread).

I'm not saying that anyone who buys digital or GKC is a bad person though. It's their money, they can spend it how they want to. Heck, I myself still buy a digital game here and there (If I manage to get my hands on a Switch 2 next year, I'll probably be getting Pokémon Gen 10 digitally because the inevitable DLC won't be on the cartridge). But I overall prefer physical simply because of my update paranoia and also slowly growing digital paranoia in general. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just throwing my hat into the ring.

@JaxonH I'm talking about the PS5 games, in case it wasn't clear. Ports of PS4 games would be a lot more feasible, but they still tend to end up a little bit more demanding and the supply of new ones dried up a few years back.

As for the 2080 Ti, that might be an older card by PC standards but it's still way more powerful than what the Switch 2 has. That's more in line with a 1050 Ti, which is only a little bit more powerful than the Steam Deck.

That's still pretty good for a handheld, of course, but I'd think that we've got to be realistic about what's possible when porting games designed with a significantly more powerful home console in mind.

Sony did, of course, put one high profile game on the Switch 1 in the case of Lego Horizon Adventures, but that's a particularly undemanding outlier. If we ever see anything on Switch 2, I'd be expecting that end of the catalogue, although the extra power of the Switch 2 ought to broaden the window a little.

@Matt_Barber
Don't get me wrong. I was never claiming any of their games would come to Switch 2 (not that I think they couldn't- every game ported to Steam so far could run on a NS2 with proper optimization, I just know they won't).

My comment was strictly addressing the claim that a high end PC was required.