Thread 715152772

Why are devs still skipping switch 2 for major AAA releases

because the hardware is 2 gens old, it's already a pain in the ass having the series S hold everything back.

>>715152772 (OP)
Why do you want to play major AAA releases on a budget tablet?

>>715152772 (OP)
They aren't. It will just take time to add it into the pipeline.

Most devs don't even have dev kits yet. Never mind the 6+ months it takes to port a game over to an ARM system

>>715152772 (OP)

Because they crave the taste of Dorito Dick too much

>>715152772 (OP)
Why wouldn't they? It's shit and everyone is on PC.

>>715152772 (OP)
Them being scared of leaks and not giving third party devs the dev kit will always be a retarded move. Especially with how easy the chinese factories leaked the device anyway. Now we have to wait for any sort of patch

modern AAA devs take like 6 years to make a game

>>715152772 (OP)
My guess is "can't run them decently" and/or "tendies dont care about third parties".

>>715152979
Switch 2 has been proven to be more powerful than Series S

why would nintendo want your "devs"

>>715152772 (OP)
Because they didn't know if Switch 2 was going to be successful or not, now that it's sold 7 million units already, third parties are noticing

>>715157362
The steam deck 2 will outsell it

It's already hitting the low 20s in some parts of cyberpunk, a 5 year old game. Almost every new big third party is UE5 and most of them are going to be out of the question with that level of performance.

>>715157472
not a problem if you dock it

>>715157327
No it isn't.

>>715157465
Switch 2 will outsell PS5, Steam Deck, and Xbox Series X/S combined

>>715152772 (OP)
Devs don't care about consoles anymore, they've all been moving to PC. GDC had over 80% of devs say they were making games for PC while only 8% wanted to do anything with the S2.

>>715157472
>low 20s
It drops into the teens.

>>715157327
proven where and by who?

>>715152772 (OP)
They’re not
They just got no dev kits to do so, you’ll see that change in the next six months to a year

>>715157472
>Nintendo fans now: Just replay the switch 1 games in glorious 60 fps or stable 30 fps, we don’t need new games anytime soon
>Nintendo fans 1 year from now: Who cares if it dips to below 25 fps? It’s barely noticeable

>>715157545
but switch2 main selling point is the handheld mode, that kind of destroys the whole point of the console if you have to dock it

>>715157545
It still dips into the low 20s docked. It dips into the teens in handheld mode.

>Even thinking of buying 3rd party on Nintendo
>Even thinking of buying 3rd party on Switch 2 knowing your ONLY option is to be a good goy and get a pure digital version of a game - no physical at all

Good goys.

>>715152979
>Half Of All Steam Users Won't Be Able To Play Borderlands 4
https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-4-minimum-requirements-half-steam-users-cant-play/
>https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
>AI Overview
>The vast majority of Steam users still game at 1080p resolution, with 4K gaming representing a small fraction of the user base. While 4K screens are increasingly available, most PC gamers opt for lower resolutions due to hardware limitations and cost

Ah yes, the Switch 2 power level discussions on 4chan. Home of third worlders (South Americans, Southeast Asian, East Europe, India) who are on GTX 970s and 15 year old Intel CPUs to play pirated games that run on 30 different bootstrappers CMD keyloggers in the background.

1) Nintendo consumers only buy their tablet for Nintendo bing bing wahoos, they don't exit their walled garden
2) Garbage hardware
3) Needing to deal with Nintendo's shitty dev kit practices

>>715158791
>they won't be able to play borderlands 4 because...
>the minimum specs (which are usually entirely spitballed) listed a 7 year old 8 core processor
What retard wrote this shit? Of course it'll run on less than that, hexacores like the 9600x and 12400 absolutely run rings around the 2700x. Even ancient shit like the 5600 and 10th gen Intel CPUs outperform a 2700x

Not surprised a tech illiterate tendie falling for clickbait.

why the fuck would anyone want to play borderlands 4 lmfao

I only buy bing bing wahoo and maybe a few indie games on it desu

>>715152772 (OP)
All of the money is in Steam. Third parties are leaving Sony behind too

>>715152772 (OP)
How hard is it to port a game to switch? It seems like PC/Xbox/PS5 would be much easier. Nintendo needs to throw around more money to buy ports.

>>715158409
proof?

>>715152772 (OP)
Nobody is buying third party games on Switch 2. It turns out that 2 hours of playing last gen games isn't very practical or appealing.

>>715162162
They dont have any.

>>715152772 (OP)
Third parties are stuck between a rock and a hard place, either they support Nintendo a monolith they haven't supported for decades where they have no fanbase and no relevance and end up helping it grow while failing to grow themselves on that platform or they stay away from it desperately trying to prop up any and all alternatives avoiding the inevitable collapse of the lucrative console market. Truth is Nintendo has already won, the advantages of PC aren't worth it for most consumers who just buy a prebuilt to install Steam, power is one advantage but by Switch 3 that won't even matter, Switch will have a lower cost point, portability and ease of use, and you will still have access to your Switch 1 library.

>>715152772 (OP)
>xhe buys a shitch
>wants to play 3rd party
retard

No ones buying gta6 on switch 2 or pc

>>715162398
>already talking up switch3
switch2 failed.

Because devs would have to actually optimize their games instead of just throwing everything at ue5 and letting the engine do the heavy lifting getting 30fps with drops out of their asses

>>715163938
Nintendo themselves can’t even get their games to hit 60 fps let alone a stable 30

the switch 2 was capped to 40fps docked with tendie execs breathing down their necks
it's not getting better

>>715164268
this gotta be the dumbest board on 4chan

>>715157840
Even that’s not much of a reassurance given the news story about how pretty much all 3rd-party games were underperforming and/or outright bombing on the switch. Even when the switch 2 only had one big game people would rather pay $10 for better graphics on BotW than play 3rd party. Combined with weaker hardware and having to do all that work to optimize, at that point why even bother with a switch 2 port?