Nintendo Switch 2 Thread

[Daft Hand]

I hear all this talk of people clamoring for a Switch 2, but why?  I've never felt the need for more power on the console.  Given the kinds of things Nintendo tends to publish it feels perfectly fine to me.  I'm not looking to play super high res shit on it, that's what the PC is for.

It's because the other two consoles (and a lot of PCs) are significantly higher specced than Switch, and that makes it harder for developers to port multiplatform games like Hogwarts to it, because they basically have to make one version for PS5/XBX/PC and another scaled-down version for Switch. This wasn't an issue when PS4 was the target platform for most 3rd party games, because doing a PS4->Switch port is usually not difficult, but the more the new consoles become the standard the more expensive and time consuming it's going to be to make special low-spec ports of new games just for one console.

There was a similar situation with Wii back in the 2000s, most devs would make an HD version of their games for PS3/360 and a different SD version for PS2/Wii, since they were similarly specced consoles. Once PS2 went out to pasture in 2010, 3rd party support for Wii dried up fast.