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The story
A thread on 5ch’s “Hardware & Industry” (console war) board took off over how Switch 2 versions of games are being treated. It started with a post arguing that the question has shifted from “will it come to Switch 2?” to “when will the Switch 2 version come out?” — with Monster Hunter Wilds’ Switch 2 port becoming the focus of discussion. Reports that the game’s file size has been drastically cut split opinion: some called it a fair trade-off for prioritizing frame rate, while others saw it as a de facto downgrade the platform was being shortchanged with. The debate also pulled in comparisons of total title counts against PS5, Xbox, and PC, spiraling into an argument over which platform comes out on top.
What people said
Now it's all about "When's the Switch 2 version dropping?"
The fact that you'd even bring that up tells everyone you're a Switch fanboy ("buta"/pig, a common slur for Nintendo diehards)
Only creepy Asian otaku play that stuff anyway
Consoles in general are pointless, if you ask me
Ah, the classic "if PlayStation's losing, drag every console down with it" move.
If you were never even a PlayStation fan to begin with, why bother caring about consoles at all?
Don't need a PS5 or an Xbox, but Switch 2 — yeah, that one's a keeper
At this point, pretty much the only games that can't come to Switch 2 are the ones with absolutely massive file sizes.
Realistically, everyone already knows 8K support on PS5 or Xbox doesn't actually matter, so there's no differentiation left that casual users genuinely care about.
The Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds had its file size slashed like crazy — it's basically confirmed to be a garbage downgrade port lol
If the file size is smaller, isn't that actually a good thing?
No, it's bad — it means the Switch 2 version of Wilds ends up a garbage downgrade
Guess "Switchtsu" only has 231GB of storage 😭 (a mocking nickname for the Switch 2)
Don't need any of that
PS5 games that are themselves downgrades of the PC version sell just fine — doesn't seem like "downgrade" matters much to actual users
This. There's zero reason to go out of your way to play third-party multiplatform titles on low-spec hardware like Switch 2 lol
Shitbox (Xbox) — lame
"Suichi" (Switch, spelled with a mocking kanji pun) — downgrade
"Premium," really? They're pushing it as cheaper than Switch 2 and that's the angle?
Someone's running low on vocabulary
#1 — PS5
Garbage — Xbox
Garbage — PC
Trash — Switch 2
Yeah, no contest for "this week's sad-news console"
Posting little "summaries" like that isn't going to change where this is heading
Looking at reality, Switch 2 keeps getting left out, and the multiplatform titles it does get are nothing but miserable downgrades lol
Left out that much, was it? Total title count is about 13,500 for Switch versus roughly 7,000 for PS5 — way more games come out on Switch and never make it to PlayStation. Can you actually read the numbers?
Let's start by accepting that reality
"Left out that much"? So what does that make PS5 with an even lower title count? Starved for games?
Most of the new titles announced at Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase snubbed Switch 2 entirely
We're talking total release counts here, so it only counts if you win on the cumulative numbers lol. "We won because of one event!!" — that's exactly the kind of thing where I have to say, look at reality
If we're talking total release counts, Switch 2 can't beat PC even standing on its head
Looking at reality, how many games are actually out on Steam versus Switch?
Nobody's carrying around a big, heavy "Switchtsu" lol
Money isn't unlimited, you know.
Being a budget PC alternative is PS5's whole reason to exist — right now it costs maybe a third of what a PC delivering the same quality would.
A little while back that gap had narrowed to about half,
but now it's widened out again.
✕ If a PC user wants portability, get a Switch
◯ If a PC user wants portability, get a gaming UMPC with save-data sync
A normal user would just pick PC. Switch 2's install base and market size are trash compared to PC anyway
That's not a "normal user"
Why not a normal user? Third-party multiplatform titles sell mainly on PC, and the Switch 2 versions bomb miserably. Did you not see what happened with Elden Ring?
A normal person isn't dropping 250,000 yen (~$1,700) on a PC just to play games.
They already think 60,000 yen is expensive.
For most people, gaming is just one way to kill time,
and a game console is a toy —
and for a toy, the price ceiling is probably somewhere in the 30,000-yen range.
Because it loses to smartphones on both market size and install base
If cutting file size stabilizes the frame rate, that just means Capcom prioritized gameplay over visual quality~
If you're going to call that a downgrade, consoles have performance modes too and everyone picks those anyway
No, file size is mostly textures. Cutting that much means the Switch 2 version ends up a miserably downgraded mess
Right, that's exactly the point — they cut that to prioritize frame rate~
If you want quality, isn't that what a mid-to-high-end PC is for~?
"Prioritized" or not, there's no way Switch 2's weak hardware can reliably hit 60fps
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Arguments like this rarely boil down to a simple performance comparison, since they get tangled up with the Switch 2’s dual identity as both a home console and a handheld. It’s worth noting that the “Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds’ file size” and the title-count comparisons cited in the thread are figures based on 5ch users’ hearsay and impressions, not official numbers from the manufacturers. Whether a smaller file size means lower texture quality or simply optimization that prioritizes frame rate varies title by title, and this thread split over exactly that interpretation. The same fault lines that have run through past hardware debates — exclusive versus multiplatform, performance versus portability — underpin this one too, and the arrival of Switch 2 seems to be gradually shifting where the emphasis falls.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware & Industry / console war) thread “The Switch 2 Era Where Every Game Eventually Comes Out.”
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