Epic Games has announced that the latest version of Unreal Engine which is Version 5.8 is now available and it promises some improvements to Nintendo Switch 2 video game development. Unreal Engine 5.8 introduces a new Lumen Lite mode for in-game global illumination. This allows Nintendo Switch 2 games to utilise this lower performance lighting mode and simultaneously run a game at 60fps.
Lumen dynamic global illumination now offers a Lumen Lite mode, which is designed to preserve much of the visual impact at a significantly lower GPU cost by using irradiance fields with probe occlusion. Twice as fast as Lumen High Quality, it means that games that rely on global illumination for artistic purposes can run on Nintendo Switch 2 at 60 fps. It’s also supported on PC.
I mean.. if it looks decent enough even at low settings and does run at 60, that’s good news for low end hardware devices at least.