Wccftech has had the chance to talk with each Alex Heise, Director of Enterprise Growth at Virtuos North America, and Eoin O’ Grady, Technical Director at Black Shamrock to debate engaged on the Nintendo Swap 2 and the system’s capabilities. The speak quickly turned to the Nintendo Swap 2’s energy and Eoin O’ Grady knowledgeable the positioning that he believes that any recreation that runs at 60fps on the Xbox Collection S ought to in concept have the ability to be ported to the Nintendo Swap 2. Virtous has achieved many notable ports in latest instances together with Darkish Souls Remastered, Hogwarts Legacy, and most not too long ago The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
When it comes to uncooked console efficiency, do you agree that the Swap 2 is nearer to the Xbox Collection S than it’s to the PlayStation 4, making it simpler for builders to port their current-gen video games to the {hardware}?
Eoin: GPU-wise, the Swap 2 performs barely beneath the Collection S; this distinction is extra noticeable in handheld mode. Nevertheless, the Collection S doesn’t assist applied sciences like DLSS, which the Swap 2 does. This makes the GPU capabilities of the 2 consoles comparable general.
CPU-wise, there’s a clearer distinction between the 2 consoles. The Swap 2 is nearer to the PlayStation (PS) 4 on this respect, having a CPU only a bit extra highly effective than the PS4’s. Since most video games are typically extra GPU-bound than CPU-bound when properly optimized, the impression of this distinction largely relies on the particular recreation and its goal body fee. Any recreation delivery at 60 FPS on the Collection S ought to simply port to the Swap 2. Likewise, a 30 FPS Collection S recreation that’s GPU-bound also needs to port properly. Video games with advanced physics, animations, or different CPU-intensive parts may incur further challenges in reaching 30 or 60 FPS or require further optimization throughout porting.