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@kal_el_07241 To be fair, Ubisoft also did the Star Wars Outlaws port which has been absolutely showered with praise as one of the best ports on the system.

I don't particularly like Ubisoft, but they do seem to genuinely be bringing their A game for Switch 2.

@foursider Love this call-out, thank you for the heads up!

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I think that's somewhat addressed in the following paragraph when Alanah mentions dashing the tonal expectations. But yeah, I agree. It sets him up as cool and tough and then it all hits the fan and you realize he's just a kid.

@MamaSymphonia It's using FSR1. DLSS can struggle with super fast paced and effects heavy games like this.

For 900p it still looks decently sharp. It's definitely not as clear as the S2 versions of BoTW and ToTK but it's holding up well on my 55 inch 4k TV.

They just announced that the Deluxe EX cards will retroactively apply to older packs. So that's that problem fixed.

There is something really refreshing about Hamaguchi's willingness to talk more about the actual development process. I feel like so many other interviews with Japanese developers, when asked about visuals/performance, often give a canned, "we worked our hardest so the fans can enjoy it." It's neat to get this insight on the importance of parity in character design and lighting and how that informed all of the other decision-making with this port.

@Vyacheslav333 Different version of the same engine. And Skyrim is a less intensive game, it's four years old and was designed around the Xbox 360.

It's like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Except this square peg has a bunch of little bits sticking out that have been really poorly attached to it that are otherwise integral to how it works. And trying to adjust any of them will cause the whole thing to break.

@Vyacheslav333 Dying Light wasn't built on a nearly 25 year old engine held together with spit and duct tape.

@Vyacheslav333 Bethesda could barely get a functional release on the PS4. A Switch 1 port was never gonna happen.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I didn't think I'd like mouse mode, but I've really been digging it for Cyberpunk.

@Suketoudara We did, but the fact that it needs to be a patch at all is disappointing. This isn't a game pushing out what the console is capable of and the fact that it's such a mediocre showing performance-wise is a bad look on Atlus' part.

This certainly does seem more on the scale of the free updates that Echoes of Wisdom and Mario Odyssey received, rather than the Tears/Breath Of The Wild scale upgrades.

@FragRed The work they did on the ARK rebuild for the original Switch (not the original release, but the one a year or two back) was actually pretty solid.

@SillyG The problem is that actual carts are even more expensive. And not every developer is like CDPR and able to eat that cost. So in that regard, yes, key-cards do offer smaller publishers the ability to release physical(ish) titles.

@AmplifyMJ Footage released by Ubisoft weeks before release looked poor. Can't blame people for reporting on what the company that made the game is releasing.

I'm thrilled it turned out well. But Ubisoft held footage of the release code extremely close to the vest.

@The-Chosen-one If developers are diligent about their work there are some places in some games where the Switch 2 can outshine the Series S. But the Series S is without a doubt the stronger system overall.

@theberrage All difficulty is manufactured. The game is intended to be challenging.

@Flashlink99 I screamed in rage. And then went back and resolutely trounced them again. It was objectively funny.

@hYdeks That would still require a read/write card as opposed to the current read only cards that the Switch uses, no? And they'd need to be available in the sizes large enough for modern games, which has shown to be a problem.

At the end of the day we're still running into size and cost issues.

@MTMike87 I imagine it's a Column A Column B situation. For the smaller games like Bravely Default and Ivalice, the S2 cards are too expensive to justify, and for games like 7 Remake the cards are too small and too slow. So the existing physical cards sit in an awkward place where the only companies that can use them are ones like PlayTonic who are taking the risk in order to actively seek out community engagement and goodwill, or Marvelous who have such a distinct, dedicated, and niche fan base that they can basically print the exact number of copies they need to stay afloat.

@HammerGalladeBro Just want to throw out that the generally accepted pronoun use for someone of undetermined gender is usually , "them," rather than, "it."

@rvcolem1 Even Bastion was incredible for when it released. Seriously, the community was losing their minds over it back in the day. It's just that it hasn't aged as well as Transistor and Pyre have.

I'm glad for the option to run at a higher resolution with the quality mode, and 1080/60 is fine in terms of performance. But the visuals on display do make me think they could have been much more ambitious with those numbers.

@progx If we hadn't heard from multiple developers who have confirmed they've had difficulty getting dev kits you might be on to something there.

@TheExile285 I would guess that the difficulty is Nintendo themselves are just being weirdly selective about who they want to give them to. With the upgrades revealed in the recent Direct it seems like Nintendo is trying to use each upgrade as a sort of showcase rather than flooding the market. Lollipop Chainsaw hits their quota for, "weird cult classic," that they can now say is available.

They did something very similar in the early days of the Switch as well.

@abbyhitter It adds a short side campaign. Internet says about five more hours of story in two chapters.

@anoyonmus I'm just saying that the way you phrased your previous comment can be read to imply it's running at 4k and 120 fps at the same time in docked.

@anoyonmus Just want to note here it's not doing 4K AND 120fps at the same time. On S2 you have the choice of either 4k/60 or 1080/120 for docked.

@Olliemar28 Is performance without the cap any better, even if it's not locked at 60?

@rjejr Devs hosted an AMA on Reddit a few days ago. They'd like to release an S2 update, but they're still in line to get their hands on dev kits.

@Max_the_German There's no news of any cartridge. It'll probably stay digital until Fangamer does their thing with it. I'd imagine, knowing what we do about Team Cherry, it'll likely be one Switch version that has Switch 2 data available.

Just got through the intro. It's definitely much smoother than the original on Switch. I don't love the low resolution textures on the ground throughout the planet, but the resolution itself is fine enough that the image is still readable. The voice acting is super anime cheesy.

@ImpromptuR They're very clearly making a joke about Digimon and the way evolution works. The writing here has always had a jokey tone to it.

@trcsf They mentioned in the video you wouldn't be able to see the difference. Because YouTube doesn't support 120fps video.

@Solid_Python Because paying people for the things they make is cool?

@HugoGED I am so angry at you for making me realize KI Uprising is thirteen years old.

Lot of complaining here. Even if we don't have all the details on dates and things for Nintendo's rest of the year we know what the games are. We don't need a first party direct to get a release date for Metroid Prime.

Third party is a much bigger mystery and also is just going to be much more interesting in terms of who's supporting the system and what they're bringing.

@Sambuc Given that the digital release is still coming this year, the holdup is clearly on the manufacturing end. And given Sega's big push at launch for key cards and no upgrades, something must have changed if they're opting for a full physical release that's several months late for what would otherwise be their big holiday title.

We'll likely never know the whole story, but "responding to backlash," is a pretty reasonable assumption.

@Sambuc Manufacturing for the physical versions likely only started very recently, and likely in response to online backlash to key-cards.

@johnedwin Speak for yourself. I would be happy to have a shooter to mess around with.

Give me I-Ninja.

@Pirate1 Same, I hope a quick comment on S2 performance becomes standard in reviews going forward.

@0ohHeWrong @ear_wig Blame here lies on First Press Games.

@Not_Soos Sushi Striker was also a 20 something hour long voice acted single player game. Pretty different scenario here.

@SillyG How many Nintendo published titles were you expecting in the first couple weeks of release?

I do think compilation releases of the digital titles would be neat. A double pack with The Stretchers and Good Job would go hard. But I imagine it would also be a huge pain in the butt right wise.

@Solid_Python They did something similar with Persona 5. It's 720p in handheld and docked.

At this point I'll take equal docked and slightly worse handheld to get an actual cartridge.

@Zealv2 No reason they would? More explicit games have been on Nintendo consoles.

It's nice as a cool down after a long day. There's something pleasant about just goofing off and driving aimlessly while enjoying the soundtrack.