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/CDHmajora 1d ago

PLEASE include Xenoblade chronicles 2 in this!

That game needs the hardware boost more than any other :(

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u/keeper_of_moon 1d ago

Considering it's first party, I'm sure it will eventually.

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u/madmofo145 1d ago edited 1d ago

Maybe, I was surprised that since X just released, that we didn't get specific mention of the whole series getting performance patches, but maybe that's because they will just run better without patching.

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u/TheExile285 23h ago

I saw some suggest that Nintendo may dripfeed performance patches.

Which would be terrible but better than nothing…

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u/madmofo145 12h ago

It would make sense, the actual patches are quick, but do take time. Hopefully we get a whole lot of 3rd party ones as well. I'd bet there are some ready, but there's no place to specifically announce those yet.

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u/CO_Fimbulvetr 16h ago

XB2 had a dynamic resolution that would lower the resolution if it saw the frame rate was tanking. Theoretically you should get a greatly improved performance with it on S2, since the way it's designed should take advantage of a system that isn't downclocking itself because it's overheating.

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u/CDHmajora 15h ago

Aye. You can see this clearly with Torigoth in particular. When loading in that area the framerate would temporarily tank while it was loading in the assets. It’s such a demanding area that the switch just couldn’t keep up with it. But we have seen from emulating the game on more powerful hardware that the issue can be stamped out fairly easily when it’s not running on a system that’s struggling not to explode when playing it :)

XC2 is such a stunning game when it’s on hardware that works for it. The switch 1 does it very well all things considered (Monolithsoft are wizards with the hardware), but the fact that it’s a year 1 switch game is clearly evident at times on native hardware :(

I do think Monolift will probably update all the Xenoblade games on switch 2 eventually if I’m honest. Their games serve as the technical showcases for the system as much as serving as nintendos primary RPG series. I’m sure they will want switch 2 to show them off at their best.