Glasso

it's not "speculation on my part"

Blas 1 2019
https://steamdb.info/app/1129120/info/
Blas 2 2023
https://steamdb.info/app/2114740/
Ragebound 2025
https://steamdb.info/app/3714190/info/

@SabreLevant I've presented the facts as they are, without speculation.

it's not as if Blasphemous 1 or the much more recent 2 can be described as a different game from a technical point of view in any material way to Ragebound from development team to development platform to style of game or gameplay.

Also Blasphemous 2 was released by the same developer in August 2023 - 60 fps on Switch 1. Also developed in Unity...

mate - I've made the glaringly obvious points. it's a piss poor job. This is a long-standing development shop with long experience in the engine that was used in both and the games are very similar in nature. these are absolute facts. and a mild cpu boost brings it up to 60 on the ancient Switch 1.

you're speculating about team composition and how they coded it etc - complete absence of any facts.

@SabreLevant but that's literally all THAT IS required to make a difference. the simple Switch 1 mod that does nothing beyond removing the 30 fps lock and applying a mild cpu boost (below even what Nintendo applies at times) proves that the Switch 2 being locked to 30 fps is absolutely nonsensical in the extreme. and indeed that the Switch 1 version as released is also is a disgrace. The same developer released Blasphemous at 60 fps on the Nintendo Switch 1, 6 years ago, also developed on the Unity platform (which is the biggest driver in the development results by far) !

@SabreLevant it's not even remotely anywhere near the limits of far the device can be OC'd on CPU - very mild by Switch OC stds- and as said CPU only. it's a pretty poor look for them on Switch 1 and absolutely ridiculous in terms of Switch 2. the cpu speed is even well below what Nintendo runs it at at times in its own software.

@SabreLevant

get off your high horse mate, they developed a very very similar game 6 years ago ffs!

they made a balls of the optimisation of this on switch. just by increasing the cpu clock speed alone and not even touching the gpu (and not even all that dramatically) this can be made run at 60 fps on switch 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIdZI-HX1Q

@SabreLevant sure but the same developer had Blasphemous running at 60fps on Switch 1 nearly 6 years ago and it's not exactly dissimilar in art so it's not as if that team are inexperienced on 2d on Switch....

@SirLink not a remake or a remaster

@RiasGremory they said the Switch 2 is very similar to a PS4 in handheld mode (with DLSS) and they were correct.

@ShonenJump121 basically not really relevant because Witcher 3 wasn't developed or optimized for switch 2 whereas cyberpunk was. for example textures are not going to be native resolution for handheld even if dynamic resolution is not going to be employed anymore due to the more powerful silicon.

so storage is more than 2 X more expensive than for the older cards. hooray.

didn't the last update on Switch 1 make it worse...?
version 3.7 was good then 4.04 make performance go to pot

The PS4 came out in 2013.

@Lizuka for FPS, many RPG and strategy games the mouse will 100% be the way to play

@mr12calvin @Zarraya GTX 1050 Ti while docked, GTX 750 Ti (sub steam deck) while in handheld is what I've also seen to use pc gpu comparisons.

https://www.pcguide.com/news/simulated-switch-2-gpu-benchmarks-make-it-look-like-a-gtx-1050-ti-with-rtx-features/

@rockodoodle no reason with the faster media, more ram and compute that it should run better without specific optimization.

@Zarraya I suppose you could say Nintendo has maintained its stance... Switch (2017) a little more powerful than the 2005 Xbox 360. Switch 2 (2025) a little more powerful than the 2013 PS4.

Well the Switch 2 is generally considered to be roughly on par with the PlayStation 4 (released in 2013) in terms of performance and visual quality. While the Switch 2 offers advantages like a more modern architecture and features like DLSS, its performance is still comparable to the PS4 in many ways.

@Dazman because Palworld was a game that millions wanted to buy and play. that's their biggest "crime" here!

@dew12333 lol retrospective patents filed many years after the fact. pull the other one. "Gliding on animals" ffs. Go jump in a lake on this one Nintendo.

Too bad the Nintendo Switch version is censored.
The steam version is not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastDefenseAcademy/comments/1kaygxu/looks_like_this_cg_is_altered_in_the_switch/

if the sales go over 10 million they gonna sue!

@jump can't easily return games tho right for obvious reasons...?

They could have technically done all this on the Switch OG but held it back to try to sell the next console.
The WII games running emulated on the Chinese Nvidia Shield prove that...

Steam Deck fans are not underestimating how much more games are going to cost on the Nintendo Switch!

@Stwert
economy of scale
a proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production.

pricing has nothing to do with economies of scale and economies of scale does not apply to software development.

@Stwert you're not really getting it. as software development gets bigger and more complex it achieves diseconomies
https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/*****-hunting-economies-of-scale-in-building-software/

@Stwert The software development business is not about economies of scale. Manufacturing is. In fact, software development is subject to diseconomies of scale - there are many articles and papers written about about it. What is happening here is a pricing decision. not economies of scale.

Fast RMX looked great and ran great but..... wasn't actually all that much fun to play.....

Gravity Circuit
Filmechanism
Iron Crytpicle

As if Pokemon didn't copy Dragon Quest characters back in the day. Everyone knows that Palworld's biggest "crime" is that millions of people liked it and bought it.
https://preview.redd.it/pok%C3%A9mon-was-in-the-same-boat-many-years-ago-with-dragon-v0-ag13h0dd95fc1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7c6cc8cd1e1de6c35563655b5d57297636516701

in fairness, Devolver Digital are known for a certain mark of quality so may be worth a look.

will not be coming out before Switch 2 at this stage - hoping for some Switch 2 sales.

@Smithicus it's not a metroidvania at all. A side-scrolling Hotline Miami is the most accurate description really.

@JohnnyMind first one was also bland. plenty of far better metroidvanias on Switch.

And Nintendo will "experience" that Mario Kart World won't sell even half what Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did on OG Switch.....

A brilliant game.

Nintendo really are gougers. I can definitely see the "upgrade pack" for Switch 1 games on Switch 2 being a much higher price than most people expect also when a lot of of it will just be upscaling and increased cpu + gpu that comes with the console.

Well it was a hit because the vast majority (like 85 to 90%) of the 9 million sales came from outside Japan so whatever they said most of the money came from overseas.

The third movie will actually be a remaster of the first one in keeping with Nintendo's normal release strategy.

password level select in 2025.... pass

This title surely has one if not the greatest redemption arcs in game development history. (along with Cyberpunk 2077)

why can't the first one make it to Switch then.....?

For the price / value ratio, nothing touches it really tbh.

The original game was good fun and made a splash at the time. But the follow up was a disaster.

Iron Crytpicle is very replayable.

New handheld supposedly coming out
-> "Nah, I barely even use my Switch out of the dock. Handheld market is actually tiny."

New dedicated home tv console is coming out
-> "I can't remember the last time I played a game on my TV"

🤣

@ButterySmooth30FPS MGS2 and MGS3 in this collection are based on the 2012 HD remasters, not the original games.

A big pity tho that even marquee first-party games like BoTW suffered 20 fps segments at times.