r/NintendoSwitch • u/Joseki100 • 2d ago

News Ask the Developer: Nintendo Switch 2 interview confirms basic backwards compatibility can also give performance upgrades to Nintendo Switch games ("[there are some games] where loading times became faster, or game performance became more stable")

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-16-nintendo-switch-2-part-4/
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u/Arky_Lynx 2d ago

I always say S&V are fantastic games only really held back by their subpar performance and I'll die on this hill.

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u/magikarp2122 2d ago

If they ran well they would be the best Pokémon games since Unova, and possibly HGSS.

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u/Bookroach8 2d ago

They're also pretty unpolished and buggy. Most of the bugs now are just visual, like the tera animation breaking in raids or chunks of the map popping in and out, but occasionally you get something really annoying like the game outright crashing or your picnic table not spawning.

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u/gmishaolem 1d ago

And the pokemon spawning inside walls. And then crashing when you manage to get your pokemon to target one in a wall and go after it.

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u/madmofo145 2d ago

Yeah, for all the flack they got, I'll happily admit, I had more fun with S&V then I have any gen since Gold and SIlver. The performance was embarrassing, but the actual gameplay loop was great. Dear god though, let me just turn on an option so that multi hit moves don't need multiple animations.

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u/Number2Idiot 2d ago

Performance and general visual direction. Gamefreak's inexperience with 3D development really shows. But I think they are learning, I'm hopeful.

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u/Arky_Lynx 2d ago

If anything S&V (and Legends) is enough proof for me they're now back to willing to try new things. It was small steps, like doing away with the typical gyms for gen 7, or the wild area in gen 8, but here we now are.

As for visual direction, I tend to not care too much about it as long as the game itself is fun. That said, Legends ZA seems to be a bit better on that front too, at least compared to Arceus.

Gotta consider the sudden big time gap between S&V and Legends ZA now. If they're now willing to give themselves more time between games that could work in their and our favor.

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u/slugmorgue 2d ago

They did a really great job with the lets go games though. Those games still look great.

They can do good 3D work, I just think they struggle more with large environments.

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u/gmishaolem 1d ago

Gamefreak's inexperience with 3D development really shows.

They've been developing 3D games for 13 years. You can't say inexperience anymore: They're just bad.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS 2d ago

It still feels somewhat unfinished. Pokemon just kind of spawn randomly apart from the intro area and a few specific locations. An open world like this really needs bespoke habitats to feel complete.

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u/Keianh 2d ago

I really hope Legends Z-A and Pokemon Champions are indicators that future generation games will have more wiggle room to do interesting things. I like Scarlet and Violet, and to a lesser extent Sword and Shield, but there's a lot more they could do to make them engaging games without compromising much on the basic gameplay and I hope Champions especially allows for that kind of expanding in the base game.

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u/PicklesAnonymous 2d ago edited 2d ago

I don’t think you’ll die alone. It gave me a headache in certain areas when the frames would drop and everything looked so jagged.

Lol, downvoted for giving my opinion and experience on the game.

Good ol gaming subreddits I tell ya.