Switch 2 Fans Can’t Stand Seeing Nintendo’s New Console Compared to the 12-Year-Old PS4 1

Switch 2 fans are becoming increasingly irate with Digital Foundry, as the tech experts continue to compare Nintendo’s new console to the PS4.

We’ve talked about how PlayStation has become a measuring stick for the incoming system, but fans are getting more and more agitated with the frequent references to Sony’s 12-year-old machine.

Late last week, the team pointed out that many of the third-party games running on Switch 2 so far performed similarly to their PS4 counterparts, and it used examples like Elden Ring and Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut to argue its case.

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Adding balance, it stressed how impressive all of this is in a handheld format, and also added that Nintendo’s new unit has many modern features that weren’t present on the PS4, like DLSS and ray-tracing.

But in a new hands-on with Cyberpunk 2077, the team has once again attracted criticism for comparing CD Projekt RED’s sprawling sci-fi RPG to the ill-fated PS4 version.

“According to Digital Foundry, the performance of older generation consoles improves with each passing year,” one viewer sarcastically said.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how much the PS5’s performance will have improved by the time the Switch 3 is released.”

Another added: “Switch 2 coverage has been very poor so far! What we’re seeing on screen and what they’re saying does not match at all. When you put Switch 2 games side-by-side with the PS4 version, it's very clear the Switch 2 version looks considerably better. Nothing has showed this is PS4 class hardware.”

Responding to the backlash on forum ResetEra, Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia said he’s “genuinely shocked people are somehow upset with the comparison to the PS4”.

He continued: “We are talking about a max 30-ish watt Ampere GPU on an outdated and more power-hungry process. It cannot be Series S level, let alone PS5 level in a good number of categories.

“Even if Ampere is a more forward-looking architecture than RDNA 1.5/2 of the PS5, there are just hard wattage limits in play that are very important to its performance in spite of a nice feature set.”

Of course, Digital Foundry itself admits this is still early days, and there’s much more testing to be done. In the case of its Cyberpunk 2077 coverage, it points out that the demo includes areas from the Phantom Liberty expansion, which of course never released on the PS4.

But it seems like the comparisons to Sony’s last-gen console aren’t going to go away, and we suspect fan frustration is only going to continue to bubble until the system is out.

[source youtube.com, via resetera.com]