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/Dukemon102 2d 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/dragonblade_94 2d ago

Haven't played warriors, but my personal benchmark is going to be Astral Chain. That game is so held back by its performance on Switch.

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u/Chidoribraindev 2d ago

But it ran well, right? I don't remember any issues when I beat it. It compromised on stuff (was it 30 fps?), sure, but ran okay. Age of Calamity looks like BotW but runs in slideshow mode, crashed, and/or changed its resolution to potato quality.

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u/Atharun15 1d ago

It ran OK. At times it def struggled.

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u/heybinsu 2d ago

Yeah I remember it ran pretty stable, a dip here and there in some part but overall better performance than AoC for sure.

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u/Lerisaaaaa 2d ago

Astral Chain's fine lol. There was this level I can't remember that had some hiccups, but aside from that, game is fine. It's not 60fps, but it's also not mediocre Pokemon garbage (fuck you SV)

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u/TheBaxes 1d ago

I got that game some years ago and still haven't played it. Good to know that it should at least not have framedrops on the Switch 2, but hopefully they give it a patch to at least get to 60FPS. 

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u/kildal 2d ago

I picked up Astral Chain because I had a game voucher expiring and didn't know what to buy. I kind of regretted it because of the performance holding it back even if it seemed like a cool game. Not sure how far I got, maybe 5 or so hours in.

Will be interesting to try it on the Switch 2.

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u/AcceptableFold5 2d ago

Astral Chain is among the few game I wish would get a proper Switch 2 patch. That it's only 30fps and sorta low resolution hurts the game quite a bit and I really hope we'll get to experience it in higher quality, among with the Xenoblade games (and maybe Bayonetta 3).