The Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled for release on June 5th, but the console is already disappointing some. Even though gamers haven't yet had the chance to test the new machine with a controller in hand, they're speculating and criticizing its performance. Recent leaks paint a picture of a console with components that would allow it to reach the power of a PS4, a generation and a half below the current standards imposed by Sony and Microsoft. But all of this is actually of little importance, and here's why.
Specifications that are scary... wrongly
We learned via leakers that the Switch 2 will feature an Nvidia Tegra T239 processor integrating an octa-core ARM Cortex-A78C CPU and a GPU based on the Ampere architecture with 1536 CUDA cores. So many highly technical terms to mean that the console will be compatible with DLSS, ray-traycing, and 4K output up to 60 fps in living room mode.
These are technologies that have been widely used by competing consoles for several years now, and no innovation has been added to the picture. "Worse still," some of the Switch 2's capabilities don't align with those of the PS5 or Xbox Series, which are nevertheless sold at almost the same price. What a good portion of casual gamers forget is that components don't explain everything. Indeed, software optimization is the key to good performance, and that of the Nintendo Switch 2 is particularly well thought out.
The console notably takes advantage of Nvidia's DLSS to improve the visual quality of games without overly stressing its graphics processor, and by using artificial intelligence instead. This is a technology that offers better performance, greater fluidity and controlled consumption, while maintaining good image quality, even on demanding games. This is partly what will allow Cyberpunk 2077 or even Elden Ring to run on the machine.
Already a guarantee of quality
If we talk purely from a practical point of view, the players concerned by high performance on Switch 2 are few in number. Even with more competent specifications than those of the current Switch, the choice to exploit them rests on the shoulders of the developers and what they do with them.Warner Bros. Games, for example, recently released a gameplay video comparing the current versions of the game Hogwarts Legacy and the enhanced version on Switch 2. This trailer reassures us about the use of the different technologies and components of the Switch 2.
Hogwarts Legacy is a game notoriously not very good graphically on the Nintendo console. However, we can see here a significantly improved version, smoother, more powerful, with less latency and loading times, all with much more beautiful and immersive settings. So there is no reason to panic for the moment, as long as we do not compare the Switch 2 with the incomparable.
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