Wccftech has had the opportunity to chat with both Alex Heise, Director of Business Development at Virtuos North America, and Eoin O’ Grady, Technical Director at Black Shamrock to discuss working on the Nintendo Switch 2 and the system’s capabilities. The talk soon turned to the Nintendo Switch 2’s power and Eoin O’ Grady informed the site that he believes that any game that runs at 60fps on the Xbox Series S should in theory be able to be ported to the Nintendo Switch 2. Virtous has achieved many notable ports in recent times including Dark Souls Remastered, Hogwarts Legacy, and most recently The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
In terms of raw console performance, do you agree that the Switch 2 is closer to the Xbox Series S than it is to the PlayStation 4, making it easier for developers to port their current-gen games to the hardware?
Eoin: GPU-wise, the Switch 2 performs slightly below the Series S; this difference is more noticeable in handheld mode. However, the Series S does not support technologies like DLSS, which the Switch 2 does. This makes the GPU capabilities of the two consoles comparable overall.
CPU-wise, there is a clearer distinction between the two consoles. The Switch 2 is closer to the PlayStation (PS) 4 in this respect, having a CPU just a bit more powerful than the PS4’s. Since most games tend to be more GPU-bound than CPU-bound when well optimized, the impact of this difference largely depends on the specific game and its target frame rate. Any game shipping at 60 FPS on the Series S should easily port to the Switch 2. Likewise, a 30 FPS Series S game that’s GPU-bound should also port well. Games with complex physics, animations, or other CPU-intensive elements might incur additional challenges in reaching 30 or 60 FPS or require extra optimization during porting.
They should be busy with remakes
It’s been quiet on Third party lately, hope we get some good announcements soon
There are some rumors going around that the dev kit for Switch 2 is kinda rare right now so only select few devs can develop for it.
It was very similar at the start of Switch’s life. The only third party games coming to it felt carefully selected by Nintendo to be games to give the right first impression of the console. At the E3 Direct of that year, which was a few months after the Switch launched, it felt like the floodgates started to open. I’m sure we will start to see that for Switch 2 soon.
And you are aware that delivering a kit this late, seeing it after a console release, is shooting yourself in the foot? That’s why I don’t believe it; I think rather that they have no support, or they are just being cautious and prefer to focus on the base Switch..
It’s really not, however.
Nintendo is prioritizing titles that couldn’t run on the original Switch. Street Fighter 6, Cyberpunk 2077, the new 007 game, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Elden Ring, etc (not counting rumors like Stellar Blade, Metaphor ReFantazio, etc) are examples. Which is a good thing to do considering there needs to be clear the Switch 2 is a new console.
Plus it’s not like there is a drought of titles. Most Switch titles run in Switch 2 already, some run even better than in the OG. So, even if there aren’t many devkits around, people DO have things to play in their consoles. I said it before: if someone doesn’t care about jailbreak/mods, the only reason to not buy a NS2 is the pricing. I, for one, don’t see any benefit of buying the NS1 now since I don’t care about modding it or playing Super Mario World or Retroarch for the nth time.
I’d say: let, at the very least, DK Bananza come out, so we won’t spend part of the limited time in a Direct talking about a game which was extensively talked already.
I’m predicting some good announcements soon. From Square, probably release data for Remake, maybe even Rebirth coming out as well. From Bandai, some late port (like always) like Sparking Zero, Rebirth of Souls or, more unlikely but not impossible, Tekken 8. From Capcom, maybe something Monster Hunter related or Resident Evil related. From Atlus, either P3R or Metaphor (just maybe confirmation that P4R will come). From Microsoft, Doom: The Dark Ages and some unexpected title.
The performance of Switch 2 is definitely better than expectation. DLSS is a game changer.
But can I file my taxes on the switch 2???? DIDNT THINK SO smh
Ports are cool but new games taking longer to come out compared to 4 generations ago. That’s with all 3 consoles not just Switch 2.
And, next generation, new games will take even longer to come out. It’s the price to pay for 4K, ultrarealistic graphics, ray-tracing and whatever you think of. It’s an industry problem, which wants to “play with power” but didn’t prepare themselves for that.
Well, this was obvious a long time ago. The XSS was always known to be a laughable option that Xbox never should have produced because it’s holding back their own games. It’s like supporting cross-gen gaming during a new console launch; intelligent people simply don’t do it!
Buying a current gen Xbox was always a dumb idea though since they went 3rd party before they came out and everything is playable on better hardware elsewhere.
Cyberpunk 2077. Your argument is invalid.