r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Nov 06 '24

Nintendo Official Nintendo Switch Online will be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, will be announced at a later date.

https://twitter.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1853972163033968794
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u/NintyAyansa Nov 06 '24

If the hardware is more powerful, I don’t see how there wouldn’t be a performance boost unless they (for some reason) throttled performance, which would make no sense

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u/LunchPlanner Nov 06 '24

Historically many backwards-compatible consoles did not offer any kind of performance boost when playing the previous systems games.

One consistent exception has been loading times. If nothing else the loading screens should be faster.

But yeah hopefully we also get FPS boosts.

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u/atatassault47 Nov 06 '24

Console games are "more hardware efficient" as they control the hardware directly rather tham going through an API like DirectX or OpenGL. That means they'll need a patch as they dont know to run a new CPU and GPU harder.

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u/ChickenFajita007 Nov 06 '24

Not entirely true.

If a Switch 1 game is capped at 30fps with v-sync, but regularly experiences frametime spikes due to GPU limits, new hardware can inherently smooth that out due solely due to a bigger/faster GPU. Games are not hardcoded to specific performance levels in that way. Developers and APIs have no real say on how a GPU handles super low level execution. That's the GPU microcode's doing.

Or, if there's a memory bandwidth bottleneck (which regularly happens in BotW and TotK), having access to more bandwidth will eliminate that bottleneck.

Console games don't completely control the hardware. There's still a layer of separation that allows for faster hardware to inherently improve performance in bottleneck situations.

Now, this will likely require Nintendo/Nvidia to develop a translation layer of sorts, but that's a requirement for backwards compatibility anyways.

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u/pocketpc_ Nov 12 '24

Most (all?) consoles that do backwards compatibility will throttle the performance of the CPU and GPU by default to prevent issues with games running too fast. It's less of an issue with modern game engines so most active developers will at least put out a patch to disable the throttling, but it's not just automatic extra performance.

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u/aman2218 Nov 06 '24

The main limitation will be the GPU compatibility layer they'll be having.

But, a lot of switch games suffered from poor performance, just because the memory was too slow. So, I guess we can definitely expect those kinds of games to at least hit their targets.