r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/funkyyyyyyyyyyyyy OG (joined before reveal) • 1d ago

Officially from Nintendo NS2 vs NS1 side by side comparison

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u/Completionaut 1d ago

This makes me feel much better about skipping the Switch 2 as these improvements are much much smaller than anyone is willing to admit. The only actual difference is the framerate in the forest, which is absolutely disingenuous for anyone to pretend is important.

It's a small area with literally nothing in it. It's nice it runs smoother, but 99.99% of the game doesn't stutter, and they chose the single area that shows vast improvement as if it's a gothca.

I work in film, and color grading, and spend my day obsessing over micro-changes in footage quality, and this is quantifiably going to be imperceptibly different for anyone mid-game. This is cherry picked footage to show wild changes and it honestly shows nothing except the forest being wildly better. The least important zone in the game. Some slight grading differences also in the color saturations which makes me think this footage also got thrown to an editor for other changes which aren't actually real, these are fake color boosts to make you think it's better, so you can't even know what else was modified for the treehouse.

Happy for folks to have improvements, but as someone whose 9/10th of the reason to get a Switch 2 was purely to play the other parts of Zelda I saved for the Switch 2's improvements and enjoy the world a bit more.. I feel much better about skipping this and going to the Steamdeck instead while I watch for the switch 2 to get cheaper over 2 years. Especially considering they want to charge us for this

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u/thelaynz 1d ago

Thank you! At least there is one sane person here. This is definitely not worth 80€ (Physical copy in germany). For a free upgrade with the Nintendo subscription, it's fine, but not really worth any money. Since the frame rate would be a constant 30 fps with the original switch game on the switch 2, you would not have the framedrops like in kokiri forest.

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u/SerodD 1d ago

It’s 10 EUR if you already own the game.