PSA: Skyrim's 'Anniversary Edition' Bundle Is Currently 60% Off, Includes Free Switch 2 Upgrade (Europe)

*free downgrade

Never played Skyrim before. Is it worth getting on here with the new latency patch?

Bethesda made it too easy to resist, unfortunately.

Not sure everyone can deduce this from the article, but if you do own the Switch 1 version but not anniversary that’s the cheapest upgrade path.

However, when I tried to buy anniversary yesterday it was still 19.99 Euro or such - I have another currency - on my Switch 2! (There was a link to the anniversary + Switch 2 upgrade from the game’s start up screen)

To get the cheaper price, I had to boot up the game on my Switch 1 instead, where the link took me to the cheaper 9.99. After that, the Switch 2 upgrade was a free download on my Switch 2. Maybe helpful for someone else.

Not worth it yet. Maybe when they properly fix all the issues on Switch 2...

I did buy the anniversary upgrade yesterday to upgrade to the S2-version.
They already hotfixed the input latency (by probably disabling vsync) within a week. That probably means they'll do some more fixes early next year. I'm not too worried.

@StarCollector if this is your ONLY platform, or if you prefer mobile over TV then maybe for this price. It’s just not necessarily the best way to play it, but you’ll get the majority of the experience at its current state.

I am one of the few people that has never properly played Skyrim.

I played Oblivion back in the day, and loved it, but the jankiness of the Skyrim combat always put me off.

Maybe as my tastes have now matured I should give it another go.

If a friend has a physical, borrow that, buy anniversary upgrade, then get the Switch 2 edition. Return cartridge to friend and you can play without the cartridge, as it’s a separate app

Basically with it the way it works now, you can get it for £8.99

@JohnnyMind

The framerate is probably GPU limited, with a dynamic resolution system which aims for framerates just above 30 fps.

Based on this assumption, Bethesda could introduce a performance mode for mobile play, with tweaked graphics settings (minimum resolution, LOD, shadows) and a target framerate of 60 FPS. Most of the time, the framerate should be above 40 fps, and VRR should work quite well.

Or they invest even more effort and implement low framerate compensation, as Ubi did for AC Shadows, to enable VRR for framerates down to 20 fps.

We are talking about Bethesda though.

@Omedru It crashes a lot on S2 in my experience, with a fresh save and all, so honestly they still haven’t done their job here