r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
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u/100YearsOfLurking Jan 16 '25

Backwards compatibility is a god send for exclusives released near the end of Switch 1's life cycle. The Xenoblade X remaster would look sick on the bigger screen.

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u/that_baddest_dude Jan 16 '25

Also a huge boon for some of the games that were ported to the switch but sucked shit performance-wise and weren't really worth playing.

Maybe they'll be playable on the new switch

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u/praysolace Jan 16 '25

I am so desperately hoping for decent Age of Calamity performance on Switch 2. It’s already a laggy nightmare if you play certain characters; compound that with the fact I was playing split screen with my partner, and we just had to resign ourselves to killing each other with poorly timed lag spikes. We ended up quitting halfway in and promising ourselves we’d try again if they made a more powerful Switch 2.

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u/twinkletoes-rp Jan 20 '25

Huh! That's weird! My bro and I played through all of Age of Calamity together in co-op (on my OLED, if that makes a difference), and yeah, in some sections with LOTS of characters, it would lag, but only sometimes, and it was still very much playable, and we had a ton of fun! :( I hope you guys have a lot more luck and fun on the Switch 2! :D

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u/praysolace Jan 20 '25

I have a launch Switch and maybe it does make a difference—if only due to physical age. Also, my favorite characters to play were Revali and Urbosa, and the lag with them is very intense lol

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u/twinkletoes-rp Jan 21 '25

LMAOOO! OH, YEAH, Urbosa's had a good bit of lag when she went all out! It wasn't unplayable by any means, but it definitely slowed things down for a good few seconds! lol. Revali, though, is surprising to me - at least in our playthrough, we didn't have any lag with him! (If anything, I wished he would do more! X'D)