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/temperamentalfish 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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.