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News that Atlus’s RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio will support 60fps on the Switch 2 became a hot topic on 5ch’s console/industry (“Geha”) board. Thread posters pointed to Persona 3 Reload, which was locked to 30fps in handheld mode, as a reason to doubt this was really achievable. A review introduced later in the thread then took over the discussion, reporting that the 60fps mode is far from stable and the resolution looks blurry.
What people said
The whole Shin Megami Tensei V to V Vengeance situation was garbage too.
But this one actually pulls off 60fps?
Depends on what was causing the 30fps in the first place.
If the PS4 was capped at 30 because of the hard drive, hitting 60 on Switch 2 wouldn't be that hard.
P3R only has a 60fps mode in docked play — handheld is forced to 30fps no matter what.
Same deal here: handheld mode is locked to 30fps.
And if it's 30fps on Switch 2, that's because the assets and visual settings are built to PS5 spec.
The PS4 version is a super stripped-down build with a really narrow draw distance too.
I asked an AI whether an HDD could cause 30fps and it said it could be a factor.
AI basically just tells you whatever you want to hear.
So anyone citing it as a source is an idiot — the type who falls for scams.
Some open-world games end up at 30fps because they're constantly streaming data in the background,
but Metaphor isn't open world.
We don't actually know how Atlus builds their engine, so there's no telling.
After all, even something like P3R — a game you play through in tiny, cramped maps — still ran at 30fps on Switch 2.
Unlike P3R and Metaphor, sure, they'd have to drop PS4 support, but graphics at that level should run fine… (it's honestly below Pokémon-tier at this point)
There's no way they wouldn't release it.
They already got Persona 5 running on the original Switch, so this should be a breeze.
Unlike action games, RPGs are way easier to port to begin with, I'd think.
Atlus just doesn't have the manpower.
There goes the reverse jinx again (someone whose predictions always backfire).
You said the exact same thing about Metaphor, didn't you?
Glad to see you're so sore about it.
30fps is eye-searing, but watching it boomerang back on them like this is hilarious.
What leaked was a PC build.
Rockstar says the PS5 version runs at 120fps.
30fps is a Switch 2 exclusive.
60fps doesn't hold steady at all,
and the resolution's a blurry mess.
Review video:
https://youtu.be/vovhNqX9BVI?si=48upSSbaIUPJSoDf
No, they're talking about how weak the Switch 2 hardware itself is.
Third parties are just collateral damage caught up in it.
Caught up in it how?
Third parties chose to develop for it themselves, that makes no sense.
Ah, is this about that Capcom comment calling PS5 a 'barrier'?
Calling that 'collateral damage' — you're the one looking down on third parties here.
Ah, sorry,
I meant Re: #84,
not Re: #85.
Come back and complain once an actual third party says something like that themselves.
Background and Key Points
Metaphor: ReFantazio is the 2024 fantasy RPG from Atlus’s “Studio Zero,” staffed largely by the Persona team and built on the same engine lineage as Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5. It originally shipped on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, and PC; a Switch 2 port was announced afterward, arriving on hardware that launched in Japan in June 2025 and has been pitched partly as a landing spot for PS5-generation third-party games that the original Switch could never run. The thread comes from 5ch’s “Geha” board, the long-running console-war forum where hardware partisanship runs deep, discussing a report that this port would support 60fps.
The split was over whether that claim could be trusted at all. Posters debated why the PS4 version was capped at 30fps in the first place — hard-drive bottleneck versus asset streaming versus simply being built to PS5-spec visuals — with one citing an AI chatbot’s answer, which others mocked as worthless as a source. That skepticism was validated when a review surfaced mid-thread showing the Switch 2’s 60fps mode is unstable and its resolution noticeably soft, deflating the “good news” framing in the original headline.
What outside readers may miss is the precedent driving the skepticism: Persona 3 Reload’s Switch 2 port only hits 60fps docked and is locked to 30fps in handheld mode, so “supports 60fps” likely means the same split here rather than a true portable 60fps experience — a distinction the headline elides. The GTA6 tangent in the thread is also a red herring: the 30fps figure being debated there came from a leaked PC build, not Rockstar’s stated PS5 target.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Console/Industry, a.k.a. “Geha”) thread “[Good News] Switch 2 Version of Metaphor Hits 60fps LOLOLOLOLOLOL.”
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