Some, yeah, but for how long? The issue facing Nintendo is that storage and RAM prices are way up. Looking at a game like Cyberpunk 2077, you can probably get most of it on a 64GB card, especially if they reduced the textures some. But 64GB cards aren’t cheap, so they have to eat that cost if they want to price it competitively. And let’s not forget, using that example, they had to do extra work with that game to port it to ARM64. I’m sure us Mac users aren’t making up the costs. I mean, I already own the game on Steam, so I damn sure wasn’t going to pay full price to buy it on the Mac App Store, not when Steam works on macOS and the native ARM64 build is right there. (The Mac App Store is pretty shit anyway.) But even then, I have an M2 MacBook Air and an M2 Pro Mac mini, and it runs like shit on both computers. I mean it runs okay, but there’s no traffic, pedestrian or car. So that’s where they’re cutting it. I get the full experience on my Xbox, so I’m not playing it on the Mac.
Same thing on Switch. The game goes on sale pretty cheap often enough, but then to play it on Switch 2, you have to pay nearly full price. Not a bad deal if you never owned it before, but I gotta wonder how a Switch 2 benches against M2/M2 Pro. This site doesn’t fill me with a lot of confidence for the Switch 2: https://gadgetversus.com/graphics-card/nintendo-switch-2-gpu-vs-apple-m2-pro-gpu-19-core/
I’m not sure how much is actually known about the Switch 2, since I doubt it’ll just run GeekBench. But it sounds like, from the way that site has it, the M2 Pro in my Mac mini is 2-4 times better. So, seeing how the game runs on the M2 Pro… I gotta wonder just how much they cut from the Switch 2 version to make it look as good as it does… and I wanna know why base/Pro Macs can’t just run that version. I suspect a lot of games are gimped for the Switch 2. That may include Fallout 4, but Fallout 4 runs nearly perfectly on my M2 base MacBook Air. There’s a couple things you have to fiddle with, like disabling gore (the flying eyeballs thing). But the game runs great. So the Switch 2 version will probably be fine.
Some, yeah, but for how long? The issue facing Nintendo is that storage and RAM prices are way up. Looking at a game like Cyberpunk 2077, you can probably get most of it on a 64GB card, especially if they reduced the textures some. But 64GB cards aren’t cheap, so they have to eat that cost if they want to price it competitively. And let’s not forget, using that example, they had to do extra work with that game to port it to ARM64. I’m sure us Mac users aren’t making up the costs. I mean, I already own the game on Steam, so I damn sure wasn’t going to pay full price to buy it on the Mac App Store, not when Steam works on macOS and the native ARM64 build is right there. (The Mac App Store is pretty shit anyway.) But even then, I have an M2 MacBook Air and an M2 Pro Mac mini, and it runs like shit on both computers. I mean it runs okay, but there’s no traffic, pedestrian or car. So that’s where they’re cutting it. I get the full experience on my Xbox, so I’m not playing it on the Mac.
Same thing on Switch. The game goes on sale pretty cheap often enough, but then to play it on Switch 2, you have to pay nearly full price. Not a bad deal if you never owned it before, but I gotta wonder how a Switch 2 benches against M2/M2 Pro. This site doesn’t fill me with a lot of confidence for the Switch 2: https://gadgetversus.com/graphics-card/nintendo-switch-2-gpu-vs-apple-m2-pro-gpu-19-core/
I’m not sure how much is actually known about the Switch 2, since I doubt it’ll just run GeekBench. But it sounds like, from the way that site has it, the M2 Pro in my Mac mini is 2-4 times better. So, seeing how the game runs on the M2 Pro… I gotta wonder just how much they cut from the Switch 2 version to make it look as good as it does… and I wanna know why base/Pro Macs can’t just run that version. I suspect a lot of games are gimped for the Switch 2. That may include Fallout 4, but Fallout 4 runs nearly perfectly on my M2 base MacBook Air. There’s a couple things you have to fiddle with, like disabling gore (the flying eyeballs thing). But the game runs great. So the Switch 2 version will probably be fine.