Archangel3371 said:

I’ll probably still get third party games on either Xbox Series X and/or PlayStation 5. Those versions will still look and run better and I want those achievements/trophies. The portability aspect isn’t strong enough for me to change that. I mostly played my Switch in docked mode and will probably do the same with the Switch 2.

gamingeek said:

Does no one else watch tv and game on a portable at the same time?


Does no one else spend a lot of time on the toilet?


Does no one else like to play games lying in bed?


Am I the only one surrounded by family most of the time?

When I play a game, that's all I focus on, so no.

I only spend couple minutes on the toilet, so no need for reading material or gaming.

I never play games in bed. I have a comfy recliner sitting in front of a big TV.

I only share my TV with my dog. Thankfully, she doesn't know how to use the remote.

Ravenprose said:

Yeah, I'm more likely to buy a game for whatever platform I own that's the most powerful. Not only for graphics but for improved performance too.

DLSS gives you that performance. The videos I've seen on a cheap laptop are as high as over 170 fps. We're not talking 30fps for most games.

Some games are way over 170.

Archangel3371 said:

I’m usually only in the toilet for 5 minutes at the most. Just do my thing and get out. Not even enough time to flip through a flyer of ads.

Ravenprose said:

When I play a game, that's all I focus on, so no.

I only spend couple minutes on the toilet, so no need for reading material or gaming.

I never play games in bed. I have a comfy recliner sitting in front of a big TV.

I only share my TV with my dog. Thankfully, she doesn't know how to use the remote.

gamingeek said:

Don't know how you guys get the hours in playing some of these big time sink games? I wouldn't have time to sink hundreds of hours into Animal Crossing, Asphalt 9, Xenoblade or Snowrunner if I wasn't second screening.

I also have a big tv and recliner, but lying in bed is way nicer at night.  

I hate laying down unless I'm asleep. I also try to avoid large games since I will never finish them.

Given how long Switch has lasted I don't see a problem for long term support. It's not just about the latest games, there's tons of games they could port over from the ps4 and Xb1 and the billion new indie games that are still coming out.

I hear DLSS has to supported on a per game basis though I hear there is a way to "force" it.

I've seen enough videos that show how it works in the real world with real games including Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, Black Myth Wukong, Forza and more.

It works and works well, it increases performance and it will be an important tool when making switch 2 games. Even DF had Death Stranding on a "bandwidth starved, super low spec laptop" at 4k at 26 to 31 fps with 4gb RAM, using DLSS. They also used hardware raytracing in Control and it worked well.

Most of the DLSS workload goes on the tensor cores, it's the frametime cost that is the problem, but that's usually measured in milliseconds. And you can do things to reduce that frame time cost, like rendering at a higher resolution to reduce it.

DLSS 4 is much improved so you won't see as many artefacts or ghosting and people have already tested it on 2050 level gpus, which is the lowest baseline expectation hardware. And Switch 2 may be more in line with 30 series cards.

You can watch the Spiderman 2 video I linked, at 360p using DLSS 4 to have it at 1080p, it's a very clean image and runs well. Switch could even use 540p and upscale to 1080p.

PC users are rendering at 720p and using DLSS for 4k output. I dislike using the word upscale when talking about DLSS as its so much more and best in class.

Developers are saying Switch 2 is very capable, journalists are saying big publishers are considering it for their "most ambitious AAA projects"

When you hear Starfield, Indiana Jones and the New Fable might be coming, it really doesn't leave any doubt, that it's not a switch 1 hobo port situation.

This is part of the reason I find it weird when people are cold on playing on a hybrid version. Take your favourite game, make it playable on your portable so you can boot it up in seconds, play it anywhere (plane, train, relatives house, office toilet) then you can put it in the dock and continue playing on the tv in your preferred way?

I played Halo 1, 2, 3, 4 and reach on a home console. It will blow my mind to own and have those 5 games and ODST in one collection playable on a handheld with instant loading and gyro controls. And still be able to flip to tv in a second too.

DF are very pro-DLSS, they'll hype it no matter what.  The spiderman video you linked is using the new DLSS4 transformer model, not sure if Nintendo could still incorporate this in Switch2.  Or if they'd care enough to put in the work.

Reports state that Switch2 is equivalent to Series S, but that will be with the use of Nvidea's wizardry, and Series S is the weakest current gen console by far.

I'm not saying the Switch2 won't benefit from having access to Nvidea's machine learning algorithms, just that it'd be wise to keep expectations in check.  You seem to be adding up every single positive morsel of news and setting yourself up for disappointment.

And of course publishers are considering to bring as much games to it.  Switch sold 150 million units.  Publishers will be expecting Switch2 to do the same.  Then they'll be disappointed that sales targets weren't met.  It's the way of the publisher.

As for Indiana Jones, this is what DF had to say about it:

Xbox Series S is even more of a challenging platform, and one where we've seen RT features dropped on many releases. Here though, RTGI is a requirement, so Machine Games needed to take a different approach to ensure a good visual outcome. Internal resolutions are still relatively high, at around 1080p, but the game relies on variable rate shading (VRS), like Doom Eternal did on Xbox. This technique attempts to reduce quality in areas not of visual interest, which drives up performance but can sometimes manifest like video encoding artefacts. The issue isn't serious on Series X, but on Series S the combination with the lower resolution and TAA can produe a smeary mess that doesn't hold up well on a large display - though probably would be fine enough on a smaller handheld screen.

Quite the coincidence they'd say such a thing, no?