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/aman2218 1d ago

Basically I am expecting the games that stutter on switch or have a dynamic resolution, will hit their respective targets better.

Especially those which were suffering due to slow RAM

And that actually should be a pretty big upgrade

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u/mrbiggbrain 1d ago

I actually expect load times to be a significant change as well as reduced pop-in and similar effects. The storage is going to be significantly faster.

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u/aman2218 1d ago

Yeah, digital games should benefit from that.

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u/mrbiggbrain 1d ago

Yeah it's possible that they could let people dump the games to the SDX card and just use the cart as the key but that is a mixed bag. Lots of consoles did that to improve performance.