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@larausjarod That’s how it works! You just get the free upgrade option in the store and your S2 downloads the specific S2 assets. You still need the cart inserted in the S2 to play, of course.

@Pak-Man If they did a full Legends/Tron Bonne compilation, I would be so intensely happy.

sighs in lack of Mega Man Legends

It’s good to see Capcom giving us these collections of classic games!

@Anti-Matter We’ll all find out. I imported the PS5 disc and the Switch 2 game card and HOPING there’ll be no issue. That’ll be up to how Level 5 did things.

@DarkTron I’m tired of people whining about free things that make existing things better. Especially from people who (like me) almost certainly have zero knowledge about what it takes to make these upgrades happen. And especially when 48 hours ago none of us even knew this upgrade EXISTED.

Also, if you think me calling out someone for making a silly statement is “brigading” then you must be new to the internet.

@brandonbwii Very fair! I don’t disagree.

@PikaPhantom It’s very possible. Hopefully they’ll add it in later.

I just love it when people complain about a solid upgrade and say “that’s stupid” when 30 fps portable is the ONLY downside of the upgrade. Higher res, better performance docked, improved load times…

@Vyacheslav333 Do you honestly think Larian (edit: Or whoever is responsible for the port) wouldn’t have done 60fps in portable if they could have at that moment? Maybe a future patch might implement VRR for portable and aim for higher, but it feels like 60fps for this may have been a target they couldn’t hit now.

Good grief. People are never happy, especially with free upgrades.

@cylemmulo Second paragraph of the article tells you all you need to know.

Well, the Switch version is no longer on my radar to purchase, then.

I’d have taken a delay over this stupidity.

Anyone defending this crap port: “Leave the multi-million dollar corporation alone!!!”

Aspyr is pretty much synonymous with horrible ports and broken promises at this point anyway. I expect nothing from them.

@Glasso If you genuinely don’t see the difference between this cheap shoddy port and Skyward Sword, there’s nothing anyone can say to ever convince you otherwise.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Paranormasight, Octopath 1 (at first), Daemon X Machina, Golf Story, Shin Megami Tensei V (at first), Triangle Strategy (at first), quite a few VNs including Fate/Stay Night and Fate/hollow ataraxia…

That’s just from my own personal library after a quick skim. All console exclusive to Switch, at least at first.

@purple_shyguy My worry level is zero. Every platform has games that are horribly optimized. All we have to do is just vote with our wallets and not reward them with a purchase. They’ll learn or go away, and the good ones will stay.

I can’t believe Capcom has the brass balls to keep selling cloud versions of those games.

@MitchK Don’t hurt yourself getting off that soapbox.

@aresius This is the way. Reward the developers who do a good job, and vote with your wallet. Cyberpunk 2077 runs well on S2, better than I ever thought it could. PS5/Series X runs better, but it’s hard to take those with you!

It seems like some devs can make the Switch 2 hardware sing (Star Wars Outlaws, Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky) and some (Skyrim, this lackluster port) …can’t.

So freaking lazy.

@Ploppy If you have a PS5 to try out that demo, the Switch 2 version basically as good as the PS5 version.

I say this owning both systems and having tried the PS5 demo and also as an owner of the S2 version.

Definitely worth the $5 early upgrade cost. Stupid backlog is keeping me from giving it the attention it deserves, though.

A friend of mine had the NES Jaws when I was growing up, but never wanted to play it.

I hate that this is from LRG.

@JohnnyMind “Leave the multi-million dollar corporation alone!”

I kid!

That said, the game is over a decade old, started out on the PS3/360 and has gotten more releases than almost any non-Nintendo game ever other than Grand Theft Auto V.

This is a sloppy port and needs far more work.

@daycamp The difference is night and day. You can find many comparison videos showing just how improved it is.

@Glasso glances at Star Wars Outlaws, Cyberpunk, No Man’s Sky, Red Dead Redemption and other good S2 ports that have been made

Yeah, no. It’s the devs who are dropping the ball, sorry.

…how is it not 60fps? At this point there is zero excuse.

@DreadfulDragon This article isn’t about Veilguard. Prime 4 is actually a GOOD game.

I shoot Myles in the face at every opportunity and the desert open world is boring, but other than that and the chattering humans this game is excellent. Solid 7 if not higher. It would be 8 if I could turn off Myles’ “HEY HAVE YOU CHECKED PLACED YOUVE ALREADY BEEN!?!!?!?!?” annoyances.

I had quite a few of these on mobile, and this was a no-brainer as an instant purchase. Glad to see these games preserved in a modern format!

@yoshi3 It is a Switch 1 and 2 title. Free S2 upgrade.

Gosh, this sure is the kind of thing that…I dunno…should be included in the ACTUAL GAME CASE, eh?

Well, on the bright side now any future Arkham games can’t be worse than that Suicide Squad game.

…right? Please?

Hardware wise, my display got a couple of scratches within a week and I still don’t know how. Screen protector bought and applied shortly thereafter.

Other than that, it’s in perfect shape and it’s actually been getting more play than my PS5. That in and of itself is a major accomplishment.

Will definitely be picking this up when it gets released in the US! I love me some oddball games.

Got the deluxe edition this weekend in anticipation, tried the S2 upgrade tonight and it looks damn good. It’s not true 4k but 1440p at 60fps docked is MORE than enough for me on the S2! Well worth the $5.

@JRM9 Tell me you don’t understand how huge an update this is from the Switch version without telling me you don’t understand how huge an update this is from the Switch version.

And for free. Someone’s always got to complain about free improvements.

Knew I should have picked this and Automata up on the last sale, even if it was incompatible at the time.

@AJWolfTill It’s more the whole game-that-was-made-for-PS5/S/X part that shocks me. The fact they got this and Outlaws running on the S2 (and that I actually prefer playing it on there, weirdly) is the part that blows my mind.

I hope more companies can do full ports like this as well.

I do look forward to seeing what DF has to say on this one.

Say what you will about Shadows itself (and boy, do I have things to say but won’t) the fact that Ubisoft is squeezing two PS5/S/X games into the Switch 2 with so few compromises is impressive.

Who had “Ubisoft is one of the best Switch 2 developers” on their bingo card? I definitely did not!

Make sure you check Walmart, Best Buy and Target for digital purchases as well! I got Splatoon 3 for $29.99 digitally.

…well, this is a thing that exists.

That’s enough internet for me today, and it’s only 8 am here.

snags PS4 and Switch copies for dirt cheap after putting it off for a while

Just picked up a S1 copy for dirt cheap due to this announcement.

I hope they release a final Switch/PS card/disc version of this with the Namco dlc present. I have the Atari 50 Expanded Edition for PS on disc, and while I’ll absolutely be buying this dlc shortly, I would LOVE to have it all for posterity.

…the number of hours I spent playing Pac-Man on my 2600 back in the day…

@Warioware It is. They’ve done their best but English Kiryu is such a horrible mis-cast that I feel sorry for the other VAs who AREN’T mis-cast since I’ll never hear their work again in a Yakuza/LAD game again with Kiryu in it.

@Solid_Python That would be very disappointing if true. Let’s hope it isn’t the case with the PS5 release!

@Orpheus79V I figured S2 would have no problem hitting 60fps so I take NOTHING for granted anymore!

It will be so nice playing the eventual enhanced Y6 at 60fps someday!

Will sadly skip this and K1 on S2 for now, but definitely picking up the PS5 releases! Will grab when they go on sale in the future. Saddens me that it can’t hit 60fps on S2. Hopefully the PS5 version has no such limitation, which I’ll be getting on disc next month!

I am a bit of a Yakuza fan.

Looks like the joy-con 2s also got updated.

Unless I was a slug and didn’t update them on a previous system update!

@tonyp1987 Oh, that sucks! Thankfully I held onto my OLED Switch for my bedroom. I have Symphonia on PS so that one isn’t a personal worry but it’s bad for those who have it for Switch only!

The only two games I care about are South Park The Fractured But Whole (own but can’t play, also own on PS) and Nier Automata (don’t own yet, but own on PS and XBox).

Other than that, all my games work and I’m very satisfied with how the S2 has handled my library.

@OldGamer999 The whole purpose of a console is to have a standard performance goal. All of said consoles should be identical as far as real-world performance.

The Switch changes that and requires it to switch (heh) ON THE FLY and go from docked to portable with no perceptible change of performance to the user. That's harder than you might think. Adding a third mode is probably not something they'd like to do.

That said? I am definitely NOT opposed to a more powerful Switch. Heck, I use my S2 in docked mode 99% of the time, I'd very much like a true "console" version of the Switch 2 that would be cheaper and just be a little box on my TV to play games from.

Sadly my dream will not be realized anytime soon, nor will yours. But one can still dream! And I know you're not attacking Nintendo, no worries! We can argue and dispute but at the end of the day we're all Nintendorks here.

@Untempered-Link Agreed. I don't care for recent Ubisoft titles, but the fact they DO run on the S2 is nothing short of impressive. I downloaded the Outlaws demo and was blown away by how well it ran. It doesn't even look like 30fps to my eyes, which is pretty high praise. Say what you will about Ubisoft (and hoo boy, do I have a lot to say!) they did an EXCELLENT job with that port and I expect Shadows to reach the same level if not higher.

@jojobar Its a deep shame. That said, as much as I detest them, I'll happily snag a GKC if it is VERY discounted. And as much as it irks me, I'll also get the FF7 Intergrade release as well since I DO understand the reasoning on that one. I might HATE it, but I UNDERSTAND it.

@OldGamer999 So game designers would have to make three versions of their game in one instead of two: docked, portable, and superultrawowawesomedocked.

I’m sure the devs would love that.

@OldGamer999 At that price, you might as well get a PS5 Pro instead.

Remember, this is a PORTABLE, and younger folks play these things.

Nintendo isn’t going to aim for the younger crowd with a $1000 handheld console. Not to mention the dock you think would happen would likely be multiple hundreds of dollars by itself.

@Vyacheslav333 It is a laptop computer. It is in no way a handheld gaming device. It’s a multipurpose machine for lots of uses. Unless there’s some kind of language barrier here, you’re making absurd statements.