I didn't play FE but there were definite stutter issues on Kirby. Go through the first parade float level again and watch as they pop in and start driving at you from the back. Might get down to single digits for distant objects. Also happened with non-important items like kicked cans in a few places.
For me, SMTV was the biggest offender. It's the only game I have on Switch that I'd rather play on something else. I don't think stable 30 FPS should be much of an ask at this point and I found the way that menus lag to be incredibly irritating. More an indictment of Atlus than the Switch since they could have cut back on graphical fidelity but it still has made me desire beefier hardware for the Switch. The main thing that would interest me in a Switch 2 would be a significant leap in hardware. The chip mentioned in the leak from yesterday was reported to be slightly inferior to the PS4 equivalent, which would be more than enough for me.
Actually yeah, forgot about that one, and ugh the load times on some of the ports I've played...
Switch 2 being more powerful isn't going to fix Pokemon and Sonic having incompetent dev teams.
If I recall correctly, IS was not heavily involved with 3 house's development. They merely pitched the concept, were advised on gameplay systems to ensure it felt like Fire Emblem, and did some writing (namely the church route). The bulk of development was done by Koei-Tecmo. The presumed story is that IS worked on Engage and KT made 3H, but due to delays and covid stuff alongside 3 hopes coming up Engage had actually been finished for at least a year (datamined files like the opening video have dates as old as 2021 iirc) but was delayed for marketing purposes to avoid something like 3Houses > Engage > 3Hopes which would be an awkward release order. This is also the presumed reason why Engage's DLC is being released so fast because it was effectively done a long time ago.
Hell, the original Breath of the Wild struggled to run on the Switch in places, despite being a straight port of the Wii U version. The console was already behind when it launched, and the power issues will only become more pronounced as time goes on. I have to agree with Shokio when he says that the Nintendo Switch feels like the first console that even Nintendo themselves are limited by.
The Steam Deck's limitations are no where near as bad as the Switch's. The Steam Deck is an actually pretty capable piece of hardware, when you get right down to it. The Switch doesn't really match it.
I do not recall SMTV being particularly bad on the Switch either although I've played around its release in 2021, so it's been a while.
The point was that neither the Switch and Steam Deck are good options for someone who prioritize framerate and/or graphic quality above else, as the form factor will force to make concessions either way. And I say that the Switch is still a capable machine as it's one step below the PS4, like a mini portable version of it.
The Switch is definitely at least two steps behind the other last gen consoles. Its just that games are so scalable now that if they hit midspec PCs they can hit Switch too.
The switch is like half an Xbone, but apparently the architecture and api are very dev friendly, which makes making these impossible ports easier.
They also aren't as universally great as people say they are. Don't get me wrong, I was glad I got to play Witcher 3 on anything but man those minute+ load-times suuuuuucked. And on occasion the game would shit the bed graphically, if you were doing something like going full out on a horse for long distances.
I know the 5 year hardware cycle was beaten into people for decades straight but the modern market is a whole new animal and with the world being in a precarious state its wiser to stick with the product thats already proven itself. There's nothing stopping the switch from beating the gameboy's nine year life span when it revitalized the company, to say nothing of it consistently having exclusives that sell dozens of millions.
Gameboy only lasted that long if you don't count Color as a seperate system, which it totally was. Or take into account that it was supposed to be subsumed by VB and had to be given a second wind when that failed.
Both the ps3 and ps4 had 7 years life cycles tho
Original Game Boy was in 1989, Color was nine years later in 1998.
There is not a chance in hell Virtual Boy was ever intended to outright replace the Game Boy.
Did you play it in handheld mostly? Most of the people I've talked to who didn't see much wrong with it were people who owned Lites or exclusively used the Switch portably. The performance issues were largely based on resolution as a lot of it went away when I turned the display down to 720p.
I just want to play my Virtual Console library on the Switch, I refuse to pay for some gay ass subscription service to access games I already own
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yeah I've played it exclusively in portable mode back then. I have gotten a large 32" pc screen (and use it as a TV) a few months ago to play more often in docked mode.
