Switch 2 looking pretty cool! Some nice game surprises and maybe finally we can put 30fps games behind us? The price is a bit much but I never buy consoles at launch unless they got a new Zelda game, so I can wait a bit for it. Probably going back to physical purchases cause I really regret going completely digital for Switch 1.

@Ossi Switch 1 is still the same price today as it was at launch eight years ago. It's been on various sales throughout the years, but definitely wouldn't anticipate any official price drops on the Switch 2.

@schlep Yea I'm not expecting a price drop in the near future. I just mean I can wait for a bigger game that I want to make it worth getting. I'm in Canada too and the prices are more inflated here :(

@Ossi It seems to be a rule that no matter how much extra power gaming hardware has, it will inevitably be pushed to 30 fps to look nicer in marketing screenshots.

Framegen is only going to make this hilariously worse.

@gourd For sure, it's quite depressing. But I think if stuff like frame gen continues to make games look worse there's going to be push back. We already see a lot of that for last gen games that don't use it.

But yea, it's sad how our hardware is getting better but our software runs/looks worse. I'll remain optimistic for now since I think indie devs are going to be leading the charge for a while anyways. And most of them don't do that kind of stuff.

@Ossi @gourd Just have a look at Monster Hunter Wilds to see Frame-Gen can be an exploit for devs to optimize games even less. On Switch this should generally be less of a problem since you target known Hardware. But we will see how things pan out for the switch. I had some really impressive Ports. And than it had the Pokemon Games

@stefan @Ossi Pokémon games and game engine performance have never really been a thing, I imagine in part due to the absolutely absurd release schedule of the games.

@gourd @Ossi true true, but the step into 3D made this problem very apparent. But hey its the biggest Franchise on earth it will sell anyway

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@stefan @gourd Pokemon games make me too sad now. My love for them is firmly parked at Black/White. I hope to someday drive again 😭

@Ossi @gourd I mostly set my sights on older games and Rom Hacks/Fan Games by now. Modded 3DS ftw