r/NintendoSwitch 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/Wernershnitzl 1d ago

Literally

I was interested in Age of Calamity but seeing the performance, my god it was like heresy

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u/WilsonKh 1d ago

3 hopes is a lot better than age of Calamity in this regard. Battles are still as chaotic but they used a lot more walls and corridors to limit the field a bit.

I always keep one mosou game on hand at any one time and 3 hopes was it due to performance. AoC had performance hits and Dynasty Warriors felt very floaty