{"id":23568,"date":"2025-04-16T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23568\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:14:10","slug":"switch-2-fans-cant-stand-seeing-nintendos-new-console-compared-to-the-12-year-old-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23568\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Fans Can\u2019t Stand Seeing Nintendo\u2019s New Console Compared to the 12-Year-Old PS4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Switch<\/a><\/p>\n

Switch 2 fans are becoming increasingly irate with Digital Foundry<\/a>, as the tech experts continue to compare Nintendo\u2019s new console to the PS4.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve talked about how PlayStation has become a measuring stick<\/a> for the incoming system, but fans are getting more and more agitated with the frequent references to Sony\u2019s 12-year-old machine.<\/p>\n

Late last week, the team pointed out<\/a> 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<\/a> and Yakuza 0: Director\u2019s Cut<\/a> to argue its case.<\/p>\n

Adding balance, it stressed how impressive all of this is in a handheld format, and also added that Nintendo\u2019s new unit has many modern features that weren\u2019t present on the PS4, like DLSS and ray-tracing.<\/p>\n

But in a new hands-on with Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>, the team has once again attracted criticism<\/a> for comparing CD Projekt RED\u2019s sprawling sci-fi RPG to the ill-fated PS4 version.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Digital Foundry, the performance of older generation consoles improves with each passing year,\u201d one viewer sarcastically said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing how much the PS5\u2019s performance will have improved by the time the Switch 3 is released.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another added: \u201cSwitch 2 coverage has been very poor so far! What we\u2019re seeing on screen and what they\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the backlash on forum ResetEra<\/a>, Digital Foundry\u2019s Alex Battaglia said he\u2019s \u201cgenuinely shocked people are somehow upset with the comparison to the PS4\u201d.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Digital Foundry itself admits this is still early days, and there\u2019s 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<\/a> expansion, which of course never released on the PS4.<\/p>\n

But it seems like the comparisons to Sony\u2019s last-gen console aren\u2019t going to go away, and we suspect fan frustration is only going to continue to bubble until the system is out.<\/p>\n

[source youtube.com<\/a>, via resetera.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switch 2 fans are becoming increasingly irate with Digital Foundry, as the tech experts continue to compare Nintendo\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,128,270,59,341,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-23568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-ps4","12":"tag-sony","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114345231228292324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}