New Videos Show How Fantasy Life i Has Been Beefed Up On Switch 2

I wonder how long it will be before Switch 2 games get eShop sales? I say this because it could actually be cheaper to buy the S1 version and then the upgrade at that price.

I am definitely going to pick up fantasy life i once I get a switch 2

If you don’t get excited by the new features what’s the point of buying it?

@Medic_alert
It's not 9 seconds.

@Medic_alert those 9 seconds stack up over your playthrough of the game so of course it's a big deal.

That's like saying "why people care about Animal Crossing loading times, it's only 30-60 seconds on Switch 1" while literally every transition in that game had a load screen, so in total you were waiting like 5+ minutes of loading in a single session of the game.

@Medic_alert yes, we are excited about 9 seconds, friends in multiplayer will not have to wait for me after every loading screen.

Better graphic is also welcome.

I thought maybe I was just crazy, but I might actually prefer lower resolutions sometimes. In this case, it lets the various environmental elements blend together more smoothly and makes it a bit less obvious how rigid a lot of the 3D models are. I'd rather devs put graphical power towards making their models and textures more detailed rather than letting me see their rough edges more clearly.

I still choose PS5 version for Fantasy Life I because the game itself is already have 60 fps by default while for Switch 2 version, you must get the Switch 1 version with identical / same price with other console version then you have to pay again for a few dollars just for getting 60 fps. Also, still no physical release of Switch 2 version so I have strong reason to get PS5 version instead.
In my opinion, my choice of PS5 version is right choice as I don't need to spend another money just for fps upgrade & optimization.

The real questions is how it compares to the ps5 version.

This game is becoming quickly on top of my wishlist. I'll play it after I'm done with Cyberpunk 2077 and Zelda TOTK on Switch 2

@Yydeckard Exactly. Doesn't make sense at all.

@Gorlock Have people really become that impatient?

Hey, don't look at me. I love pixelated graphics and I'm used to waiting for my games to load. I was raised on C64 and cassette tapes!

@Gorlock
yeah it kind of reminds me of when i played FFXIV on ps5 after being on ps4 for most of my time and the faster load times from the SSD really helped when replaying boss fights with friends for specific drops.

as @Solid_Python mentioned load times can definitely stack up, its kind of like why a big part of why chrono trigger on psone was considered a bad port, sure the load times were only a few seconds but when you were getting them for every battle and even opening the menu it became super annoying especially compared to playing the original on SNES (similar with FFV and VI on psone and those had some pretty frequent random battles)

I'll get this version at some point. I missed out on the original and everyone seems to love this game.

Noice. I held off buying it on Xbox so I could play it on Switch 2. Glad it'll run better on the new system.

@Anti-Matter can't take it mobile though 😜

I wanted to buy this physically. But. It seems very hard to come by. Noone sells it in Sweden at least. Is it the same everywhere else too?

"stronger visuals"

we appraise nintendo games now like "Consumer Reports" testing this year's Toyota Camry.

@Medic_alert I have a 4000 Euro worth gaming rig, if you must know. That doesn’t mean I cannot enjoy gaming on Switch. Or that I cannot appreciate graphical updates coming with Switch 2.

@Medic_alert Your whole argument is strange. The Switch 2 bolsters great visuals, this is coming from someone with a 4080 PC. I bought this game on the Switch and will upgrade on the Switch 2 because I love playing games away from my desk I spend a full day working at. You are undercutting a massive win for why most people would actually prefer the Switch version, and your counter for people getting excited over added features is "well it costs a lot to buy storage".

Yes. It costs a lot. We know. We're still excited for the game and the upgrade. What is the point of your argument? Do you just dislike people getting excited for something? Really seems like that's the real problem here.

@Ladasta physical is available only in Japan

I picked this one up on a whim since its not my normal type of game. Im loving it, so much to do and no pressure to keep moving forward.

I have my switch 2 coming next week and will get the $3 update because...well, its $3. Thats cheaper than the price of a 20oz bottle of soda in my area so not really much to think about. (I bought horse armor for oblivion on x360 when it came out for more)

Also, at my age, time is the most valuable resource I have. So saving small amounts of time over dozens of hours of play amounts to a real tangible savings. Even 30 minutes of total time saved by loading would equate to a huge benefit and savings for me. I also like the cleaner look, though on a portable its not as important.

@Yydeckard I am not overly impressed with these minimal changes myself. But I am still buying a switch 2, mainly because if I want to play the new zelda/mario etc. then I will need one.

@Yydeckard Exactly right. Hit it on the head.

@Medic_alert I think if someone were only buying Fantasy Life then yeah you'd have a point about the price/ return on investment. But like, no one is buying a Switch 2 to do that (cue barrage of Fantasy Life stans on this site telling me I'm wrong). It's a new console. It's gonna have other new exclusive games coming out.

@Medic_alert It's been 25 years since the last time anyone bought a Nintendo console because of how well third party games run on it compared to the competition. If someone's buying Fantasy Life i on Switch (like me), it's for the convenience of having the game alongside the new Mario Kart, 3D Mario, Zelda, and whatever other Nintendo games we get blessed with this generation lol.

That's pretty cool, like others said here 9 seconds isn't huge but when you're playing a game like this for hundreds of hours that's going to add up pretty fast, also I feel reducing the loading times by anything is awesome for maintaining immersion in the game.

It's cool to think though, switch one used SD cards and emmc type storage, subpar to the slowest type of mechanic HDD, switch 2 is landing somewhere between SSD and nvme in terms of storage speed. Will make a lot of games a lot more enjoyable.

Also 2.50 cost for the upgrade, amazing stuff, puts places like Sega to shame.

@Medic_alert If you're comparing it to a PC then yes it is limited. For a 10W piece of hardware you can hold in your hands it's actually incredible, and there is nothing out there that can offer a similar visual fidelity on a low power level like that.

You're entitled to not be excited, what excites you and I about hardware is different, as it would be for any person.

I am on the complete opposite spectrum of you, I see a massive investment for my time and money and a huge promise that third parties are here day one and so are first party games we all love and enjoy.

Sorry if my initial comment sounded obtuse, this site's community is just becoming a bit of a parody where every news article, no matter how positive, has to have negative comments that most times are unrelated completely to the article.

I understand the need to express that you are underwhelmed and all, but have we not had enough of that at this stage? I keep my visits to this site very limited because it's all becoming quite draining. Eventually I will stop completely, that's one less fan for the website essentially all thanks to the community.

Just want to add, the reason the PS5 is underwhelming is because of the lack of meaningful first party experiences. I get that you may have been right about the console when it released, but trust me when I say Nintendo will have the first party support in droves. I don't need to prove it, just look at the schedule for this year. Again, if nothing excites you in the line up that's okay because that's an opinion, but undeniably this is a stronger line-up than even the Switch had in the first 6 months.

@Medic_alert The difference between the S1 and S2 version is $2.59, lol. That's worth doubling the frame rate and resolution, in my opinion.

I kinda feel like you're gonna say "yeah, but you have to buy a $450 piece of hardware to use the S2 version." In which case, my guy, nobody's buying a Switch 2 just to play the Switch 2 version of Fantasy Life lol. They're buying it for Mario Kart right now, and holdouts will probably buy it when Animal Crossing, Splatoon, or Zelda drops. The fact that Switch 1 games run ANY better on it is just a nice bonus.

@Medic_alert Doubling the frame rate and resolution isn't "new console generation nice"?! I dunno what to tell ya man, I just hope you enjoy gaming on whatever you prefer. Have a good one!

@KociolekDoSyta omg I felt like the last person ever who knows what C64 and growing up with that lol. Had so much fun as a kid on my old C64.

The comparison Pic zoomed in on the axe guy makes it look like the difference between a handheld and home console. Which is good.

The $300 Switch was a great little portable console w/ TV out but the $450 Switch 2 does seem more like the idea of a home console you can play on the go. Which does explain the higher price. I think even Series S is about $400 now after the latest round of MS price hikes, and I think that has a max resolution of 1080p. So Switch 2 has that beat.

Which gets to why I think at $450 Nintendo could make a cheaper home console version w/o a battery, screen or Mouse Con and compete at the low end. For those of us like myself who never undock their consoles. They already have a cheaper region locked Switch 2 in Japan so it shows they're willing to sell for less. They'll give us a cheaper Switch 2 Lite for people who don't own a TV, seems only fair people who don't leave their TV get to save some money as well.

Switch 2 may still be a tablet, but it's a tablet powered for home gaming. (Based on resolution output for all the gamers who own 4k tvs.)

@KociolekDoSyta C64? Luxury. I was raised on the VIC 20 with a cassette drive!

This is not a joke, I might add. Still have that VIC 20 in storage!

i've seen some steam footage and it is ROUGH. they went way overboard with motion blur or something that just makes the whole game look uncanny. and i can't tell if that's an issue with the tiny bit of switch 2 footage they've deigned to show us. would've been nice to show us crafting and combat gameplay so we could get a better idea

@Medic_alert I havn't seen anything about Cyberpunk in this thread, but maybe I just scrolled past it. I'll have to go back and look.

I wouldn't expect a port of Fantasy Life to best display the gap in console capability. We've got plenty of other games that do do that. Nor would I expect it to give S1 owners FOMO. But for the people buying the S2 for games like Kart World or portable Kunitsu-Gami, having a much better running version of Fantasy Life is a bonus. It's just icing on the cake. And it's fun to be excited about icing.

You said "stark differences", lol!

@Medic_alert
It's quite more than 8 or 9 seconds. 🤷‍♂️

@BloodWolfe Oh don't worry, there are thousands of us! Rememebr how they didn't load sometimes and we had to repeat the whole process? We just.. don't really care nowadays because of that, even tho we should sometimes. About a bit worse graphics as well. We just let it slide, this and some other things. We were jus raised in different times and this will stick to us for the rest of our lives. I just hate two things: unfinished games (constantly needing patches even upon release) and hardware that can't function without an update (because software is unfinished, because other things), it feels like it's just not mine. Imagine C64 being released back in the days when it's unfinished and it needs something like Final III cartridge to even function. People are just getting used to different things as time goes by.

@dskatter Points a finger at you Hey, at least you didn't have ZX Spectrum! I think that I have to run away now before people who had Sepctrum will show up...

@Solid_Python that would explain that 😅

@JohnnyMind Same here, says it shipped from overseas like 4 or 5 days ago, so it might be pretty close. I picked it up when it was $50, but it looks like the next day they raised it to $60, so even with that I got a decent deal.

@Bahamut_GR True, and Xbox version as well.

@rjejr I believe the Series S is at 2K res, not 1080p.

@KociolekDoSyta Oh I remember all of that "fun stuff" lol, and ya it's helped us to be prepared for current days, but ya unfinished games drive me nuts. Companies shouldn't be allowed to get away with that, and because of that I no longer pre-order games except for the odd ones like TotK and stuff like that.

As for ZX Spectrum you mentioned to @dskatter, I never had that one though lol. Intellivision, Atari 2600, C64, Amiga, etc but not ZX or the VIC-20 that dskatter mentioned. I knew of them, didn't actually have them though.

Game looks terrible on the vanilla unit, luckily there's a patch so you can play 720p handheld with some overclocking and it looks amazing on my OLED. Sure, this doubles the frame rate, but it's not like this is a 60fps mandatory title.
Nevertheless, another great showing of the power difference.

have not picked it up from what i seen it does not run well on switch 1 compared to the ps5 version.

@johnedwin Truly a shocking revelation.

Haha, always appreciate NintendoLife reviews! Looking forward to it when you're ready to publish it.

@Ramouz 2k vs 1080p, in case you weren't joking. 😁

2k = 2048x1080
1080p = 1920x1080

That's basically the same thing.🤷‍♂️

The Series S does have games that run at 1440, which some people call 2K, but it's not, b/c 1080p is 2k.

1920x1080 2K, 16:9
2560x1440 1440, 16:9
2880x1620 3K, 16,9
3440x1440 21:9 ultrawide
3840x2160. 4K, 16:9

People on the internet being wrong and calling 1440 2k aside, the Series S does have games at 1440, and upscale a couple of games even to 4k, which does put it around the same place as Switch 2, making Switch 2 equivalent to a home console in my head. Even if it's a 4 year old weak home console, but it's still thus gen for a couple of more years at least.

@rjejr That's not correct about 2k nor 1080p based on the research I just did. 2k is not 1080p at all (when referring to consoles, monitors, and such, not cinema). But, let's just say it's 1440p compatible, as you said, which is pretty much 2k. 2560 wide.

My laptop, on the other hand, has a 2560 x 1600 18" display.

If the Switch 2 is almost equal to a Series S, I suppose it's okay since it's Nintendo, and yeah it is delayed by 5 years. They really should have went for something stronger when docked though. It was easy to make. My laptop does it (RTX 4080). Lots of machines do it.

But Nintendo is once again only thinking about their own exclusive games and I wish game companies would call them out. That's why they kept saying that the Switch 1 was okay (no it was never okay, not even at launch). It's only okay for their low res games that look like they're from 2010 and some from 2004 (Pokemon).

@BloodWolfe This is exactly what I'm saying all the time. More money being spent on development, we pay the higher cost and yet we get games that aren't properly tested. Some of them you can't even finish after day 1 patch. This really shouldn't be allowed. I stopped pre-ordering as well... no more faith in anyone.

@Ramouz "2k is not 1080p at all (when referring to consoles, monitors, and such, not cinema)"

2 + 2 = 5. I read it in a book once. Must be true.

Sunk already over 30 yours into this came. It is great.

However It takes noticeable ideas from Zelda and AnimalCrossing, which is not bad at all as it leaves most of the bad things out.

I love it.

I’m not seeing the huge difference maybe I’m missing something lol 😆

I've been waiting years to play a Nintendo handheld with proper clarity in handheld mode, so this is yet another great example of the difference in experience we'll be getting with the Switch 2!

This is actually HUGE for cutting down on accumulated loading time when farming a specific cave in Ginormosia by cleaning it out, going in and out of this door to refresh the cave, and cleaning it out again.

@Medic_alert
Yes, I forgot: The game is loading only once and then never ever after. Silly me. 🤦‍♂️

@TeeJay
ah yes!
while i havent played FL2 (yet!) i do know the alure of saving time loading when farming for something, after all not only do those seconds add up but they are also precious seconds which could have been used for more farming!

A video for this type of game in this generation shouldn't even be needed...