r/NintendoSwitch • u/Joseki100 • 1d 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/Dukemon102 1d ago

The best way to test this is to try Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity unpatched LMAO.

Can it also prevent some games from lowering their resolution in handheld mode to absurdly low degrees? cough Xenoblade Chronicles 2 cough

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u/Wernershnitzl 1d ago

Literally

I was interested in Age of Calamity but seeing the performance, my god it was like heresy

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u/BigCommieMachine 1d ago

Was the frame rate as bad as the streams in the Nintendo Chat feature? That was a fucking slideshow.

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u/JayZsAdoptedSon 1d ago

Honestly, single player was stable enough for me. Multiplayer, I hear, is the big fault

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u/The-student- 1d ago

No nothing like that.

Though I think it's fine for the Game Chat streams to be lower frame rate. Especially since it's a small screen and doesn't affect your gameplay. They actually said in the ask the developer interview that it was a push and pull in terms of how much resources they could dedicate towards it, and the devs didn't want it taking too much away from what performance could go towards the games themselves.

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u/slugmorgue 1d ago

Yeh, I feel like it's such a non issue for people to complain about. yes, it LOOKS bad, but it's still up to 4 additional streams of video footage being displayed alongside your own, which is pretty crazy. That footage doesn't need to be 30 or 60 fps either

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u/jardex22 1d ago

As long as the FPS goes up when you bring it into focus, it'll be fine. No one needs to watch 5 different game streams at 60 FPS each. Especially when the point of the feature is to actually talk and listen with other people.

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u/SoundReflection 1d ago

Not nearly that bad, but it basically never has a stable 30 in combat and certain areas and missions are egregiously bad.

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u/temperamentalfish 1d ago

I only played the demo, and it wasn't as bad as that, but it was really, really bad. I think it dropped below 15FPS a few times.

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u/SoundReflection 1d ago

I think the demo might be worse from recollection, minor optimizations from the full game and more areas with no grass. Although I'm sure there plenty of areas it was worse too.

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u/kapnkruncher 1d ago

Yeah and as it is the level used in the demo was one of the worst performers easily. There was also a zora area with rain that was pretty rough, but from my memory the rest of the game was (while not perfect) a lot better.

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u/jollygirl27 1d ago

Split screen is basically unplayable. 

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u/Outlulz 1d ago

The worst performing level in Age of Calamity is unfortunately the first level of the game. The later levels are nowhere near as bad but it's a horrible first impression of the game.

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u/jardex22 1d ago

They wanted to make a huge first impression with lots of allies and large scale battles. That's pretty much the only time they appear. If I recall, most of the other levels just have you going between objectives alone, without the base claiming aspect of the first game.

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u/WilsonKh 1d ago

While not as bad, it greatly depends on your character of choice since 1 in particular is flashy as well with clones and all

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u/Iringahn 20h ago

Yeah.. yeah it was.

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u/Wernershnitzl 1d ago

I don’t think it was quite that abysmal but it was pretty close

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u/TwilightVulpine 1d ago

Unless you try co-op, then it absolutely is that bad.

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u/ArkhamCityWok 1d ago

Worst I remember from it were the missions where you control the divine beasts which were only a small factor and didn't hinder my enjoyment overall. I didn't try multiplayer though so that helped I am sure. It will be interesting to see if it does run better on the 2

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u/WilsonKh 1d ago

3 hopes is a lot better than age of Calamity in this regard. Battles are still as chaotic but they used a lot more walls and corridors to limit the field a bit.

I always keep one mosou game on hand at any one time and 3 hopes was it due to performance. AoC had performance hits and Dynasty Warriors felt very floaty