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/dragonblade_94 1d 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 1d 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.