Not at all, at this point, Third Party Switch 2 ports are basically selling the same or better than Xbox Series ports… by next year Switch 2 ports are going to sell better on Switch 2 platforms due to a bigger install base 100%. The third parties games doesn't sell well on Nintendo platforms is long gone.
So a PS3/360 game was a bridge too far but a native PS4/One game like Witcher 3 can get ported? Dude c'mon.
Comparing Switch 2 sales to a struggling Xbox? Beating a dead horse doesn't mean you're making a profit. If a heavy AAA game like Cyberpunk is scraping a single-digit split compared to PC and PS5, the Switch 2 isn't saving anyone's budget. The math hasn't changed.
Switch 1 and 2 are apples and oranges when it comes to ease of third-party porting. There are potentially billions to be made there and given the relative proximity to Series S and performance, it's hard to imagine Take2 will leave that on the table.
Thats another topic… But is a fact that the Switch 2 is going to take the Xbox Series position when it comes to third party sales. So, after the PS5… The Switch 2 is going to be or it's at this moment the second most important platform for third parties.
Crazy prediction... I think that Rockstar is going to Shadow drop RDR2 for Switch 2 this year... And probably close to November.
Even if it ends up being a 600p LOD abortion, I just can't see the Switch 2 and Series S being that similar in terms of pixel pushing without getting a serious effort from Take2. Imagine lifetime sales of GTA VI on Switch 2 following Nintendo's discount philosophy. Attach rate would go crazy. With all these devs out of work, I'm thinking they pull it off around the time of the PC and GTAO launch.
Nate the Hate still insists it's coming.
Nah. RDR2 will coincide with the "enhanced edition" on PS5/Xbox/PC as well.
100% is going to have better IQ than the Series S version, no matter if the input resolution is lower…
But for something like Grand Theft Auto x Nintendo, Nvidia is gonna send their guys to figure it out I think. Too much at stake.the game is designed around raytraying, lower input res means lower RT quality. if they cut the internal res from say 900p on Series S to something like 540p on Switch 2 Docked mode, you'll see extremely grainy lighting (Star Wars already struggled with this at 720p internal).
then handheld mode would need to drop this probably to something like 360p
which is already insane on a PS5 and Series X... and super insane on a Series S.
It depends how integral the ray tracing is. Knowing they had to get it on Series S, I bet they're saved the heavy RT for next gen anyways. We still don't know how big the downgrade on PS5/XS is yet either. I think Rockstar games are usually pretty lean for what they are. I think GTA VI on Switch 2 would be less miraculous than GTA V on PS3there's no secret sauce anymore, there's nothing to figure out.
those days are long gone.
all you can do on Switch 2 is lower the settings, lower the resolution, cut the framerate in half, and then use DLSS to improve the image quality.
there's not much more in the cards.
if they wanted to make a good looking Switch 2 port of GTA6, they'd need to replace their RT GI with maybe a coarser probe based solution, and turn off RT reflections fully, only use SSR and dynamic cubemaps (or best case only the dynamic cubemaps tbh)
but the next issue after that is the game size, which seems to come in at 200GB
on Switch 2, that is a HYPER INSANE size.
so they'd probably have to downsize it as too. lower texture resolution dramatically, reduced audio quality, maybe if any of the lighting is baked they'd have to reduce the quality of that as well.
Why wouldn't it? It seems like easy money at this point, and the original seemed to sell well on the Switch.
From leaker Nash Weedle who's been right A LOT
Translated:
LEAK EXPRESS: I can CONFIRM that work is being done on a port of GTA VI for SWITCH 2
I hadn't spoken much about it, I had to be prudent until now, plus I can comment that:
-The game's delay is not due to this version
-It seems it won't arrive at launch
don't they all run at 30 fps?
we do not know that for the pro yet
That is not an answer to the question. We are talking ROI here.
RDR2 runs at 30fps and 720p on the switch 1
Then GTA VI should run at 30fps and 720 on Switch 2 without bigger problems. Or maybe 1080p with DLSS used.
Yes and it runs at 1080p and 60fps on Switch 2.
