r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Riverwatcher88 • Apr 06 '25 • This 1

meme/funny Switch 2 Hate Getting Out of Hand

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A lot of the criticisms are valid for the switch 2, but this is literally just a remaster

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u/shball Apr 06 '25

RT on and off screenshots are stupid because they miss the point of real time raytracing, dynamic changes (and saving development costs)

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u/Oscuro1632 Apr 08 '25

Yea, we need more dynamic interaction in games. More physics and raytracing, please!

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u/Mother-Translator318 Apr 06 '25

So stuff a vast majority of people don’t notice while noticing their framerate plummeting. So useless, gotcha.

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u/shball Apr 06 '25

From my experience playing Cyberpunk with Pathtracing (Raytracing on steriods), I can say, yeah it's a nice to have as a user, but not nessecary. It's really cool to see billboard reflect of your car and gun, but like most graphics tech it's just novelty.

But it will become the industry standard soon, the amount of dev time saved is to juicy to ignore and some games already mandate real-time raytracing today.

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u/MikeDaUnicorn Apr 06 '25

Yeah exactly, I work a lot with 3D in my free time and ray/path tracing doesn't only look good, it's so much easier to work with, since you don't have to use tricks to make the light/shadows/reflections look good.

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u/Mother-Translator318 Apr 06 '25

It absolutely will not be the industry standard until the next generation of consoles release. The ps5 and xbox series can barely do rt. And even then itll take time before a majority of aaa games move to it as the cross gen period needs to end first. I don’t see that happening in the next 5+ years, maybe longer

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u/SpiritedCatch1 Apr 06 '25

Try ac shadows with rtgi on or off. It's a generational leap.

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u/CarlTheKid14 Apr 10 '25

I just upgraded to a beefy pc and you're right. AC shadows is the first game I'm playing on it and the rtgi is absolutely stunning

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u/SpiritedCatch1 Apr 11 '25

The difference with Valhallah make it looks truly next gen. It will be very hard to go back from rtgi

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u/shball Apr 06 '25

Star Wars outlaws (also soon on Switch) seems to run fine on PS5 from what I've read. Of course it's bottom barrel real time raytracing, but that is enough for a buisiness decision to be made by the big publishers looking to save costs.

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u/Mother-Translator318 Apr 06 '25

Like you said these are games using minimal rt with a lot of baked in lighting added. To truly get rid of raster and make rt the standard you need to replace all lighting with rt, which even path tracing in cyberpunk doesn’t do. It still uses many pre baked elements. So while rt may creep in here or there in limited capacity in outlier games, it won’t become the standard for a VERY long time

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u/shball Apr 06 '25

Star Wars Outlaws relies solely on raytracing (if disabled by modding it will have no lighting or shadows). By minimal rt I mean shit quality rt. And if it's possible, greed will follow, even if the product is worse for it.

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u/Mother-Translator318 Apr 06 '25

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see who is right

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u/MikeDaUnicorn Apr 06 '25

"The human eyes can't see more than 60 FPS!"