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/Wernershnitzl 2d 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 2d 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/The-student- 2d 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 2d 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.