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The story
It has come to light that the Switch 2 version of “Lies of P” will feature three display modes: Quality, Balanced, and Performance. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board, discussion continued around comparisons with PS5 performance and console pricing.
What people said
Honestly, Switch 2 is good enough at this point
Seriously, who even needs that piece of junk called PS5
For real? Looking forward to the sales numbers then
What was that about the trash console pulling a scam by selling the disc drive separately to make itself look cheap?
If you add a disc drive and a monitor to a PS5 it's over ¥100,000
Throw in a PS Portal too and it's like ¥130,000?
Never played the original though
Wait, isn't this just a "key card" (a download-voucher cartridge, not the full game data)?
They're really putting effort in
Don't trash-talk the PS5 Pro — it costs over ¥100,000 and still barely hits 60fps
At that rate they'll probably just skip a Switch 2 version entirely
Feel like people were saying the same thing last year
But in reality more and more ports keep coming out
That's what they say, and yet they keep coming out anyway
Huh?
Weren't games that can't hit 60fps supposed to be "defective"?
Then you'd better compare PS5's graphics at 60fps too, lol
Over 99% of PS5 games run at 60fps or higher
Out of 7,000 titles, only about 10 run at 30fps
Even on the poorly-selling Pro it's mostly variable framerate
There's hardly any locked 60fps
Even on the poorly-selling Pro it's mostly variable framerate
There's hardly any locked 60fps
There's always a certain number of people like that online, so I'm used to it
Do you feel like you've won just by replying after some time passed?
Once devs get more used to Switch 2, PS5's really going to be in trouble
The moment it's a cross-gen port, it's not using one bit of the PS5's real power
Stellar Blade was originally a PS5 exclusive
It was only ported to other platforms later, and development was optimized for PS5
It was originally in development as a PS4/Xbox One title though, wasn't it
NBA 2K27 ⇒ 60fps
Madden NFL 27 ⇒ 60fps
Metaphor (Metaphor: ReFantazio) ⇒ 60fps
No way Metaphor hits that
It was already choppy in the trailer
And even P3R (Persona 3 Reload) runs at 30fps
Background and Key Points
Lies of P (Round8 Studio, an Obsidian/PSY Neowiz subsidiary) originally launched in 2023 on PS5, Xbox, and PC; a Switch 2 port with selectable Quality/Balanced/Performance modes now puts it alongside a growing wave of ninth-generation ports (NBA 2K, Madden, Persona/Metaphor-family titles) coming to Nintendo’s new hardware. The Switch 2 launched in June 2025 at ¥49,980, well under a PS5’s roughly ¥79,980 (or ¥119,980 for the Pro), a price gap posters repeatedly used to argue that a “cheaper” Switch 2 running comparable framerates is a bigger win than raw power comparisons suggest — especially once you factor in Sony selling the PS5 disc drive as a separate add-on.
The thread’s real fault line wasn’t whether Switch 2 can port PS5 games at all — everyone agrees it can — but whether “PS5 quality-mode graphics at Switch 2’s best settings” is actually comparable to “PS5 performance-mode at 60fps,” and by extension whether 30fps ports should be waved off as broken while PS5 hardware itself (including the Pro) is quietly excused for unstable or variable framerates. That argument stalled because nobody offered per-title benchmark data, only competing anecdotes about which platform “usually” hits 60.
What the thread misses is that both consoles ship the same basic tradeoff: dynamic resolution and variable frame-pacing are common design choices on any console aiming for 60fps in a demanding engine, not a defect unique to one platform. It’s also worth noting a “key card” (like the one for this Switch 2 release) is a download license on a cartridge, not the full game data — a distinction some Switch buyers still aren’t aware of at purchase time.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread “[Great News] Switch 2 Version of “Lies of P” Appears to Have Three Modes: Quality, Balanced, and Performance.”
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