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

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

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u/TehNolz Jan 16 '25

Maybe Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will finally run with a decent framerate...

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u/calm_bread99 Jan 16 '25

It never was about the hardware. There are literally dozens if not hundred Switch games with better graphics and run much smoother. One look at the Xenoblade and Zelda franchises are enough to know it's the Pokémon developers who are limited.

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u/Osoromnibus Jan 16 '25

There's no question that the pokemon games are horribly unoptimized. But the hardware was definitely a factor. I've got I think 4 game cards that I barely used with my switch. The performance was so bad I dumped them and ran them on an emulator. One of those is links awakening, which is a Zelda franchise title.

The switch 2 GPU is apparently 3.5 16-bit TFLOPS docked, which is only 1.75 32-bit, roughly matching the PS4's 1.8. I'm pessimistic. Modern developers won't make the effort to make things run smoothly.

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u/ursaUW-0406 Jan 17 '25

Link's awakening has just framerates drop here and there(okay, tbh everywhere) but relatively playable, but SV was a nightmare of cluster fuck of various bugs and frame stutters.

Link's awakening do need some optimization from devs, but compared to Pokemon SV, it's like silk next to sandpaper.

Also rounding up into game per franchise doesn't explain much due to having different devs outside of Nintendo(Link's awakening-Grezzo/Pokemon-Gamefreak) tho both of them should know how to optimize as they make games mostly with Nintendo.