The hardware capabilities of the Nintendo Switch successor, the Switch 2, are attracting third-party studios with ambitious AAA projects, based on a new report.
In a new video on his YouTube channel, content creator Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe (also known as Brazil on social media) discussed the hardware capabilities of the Nintendo Switch 2 in relation to potential support from third-party studios. He mentioned hearing that upcoming console is powerful enough that basically every third-party publiher is considering supporting it with its most ambitious AAA titles.
According to the content creator, the situation with third-party support on the Nintendo Switch 2 is very different from what has happened in the past, where some publishers would only support Nintendo platforms with ports of older games or more recent ones that wouldn’t be technically ambitious.
Brazil further mentioned that, based on his conversations with industry sources, publishers like Ubisoft, EA, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, Microsoft are considering the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware as powerful enough to handle all of their most ambitious titles. The upcoming console will apparently be a part of the long-term strategy of the aforementioned publishers, as it will remain a platform that is viable for their future titles. However, he cautioned that there will come to a point when the Nintendo switch 2 will not be able to run the most demanding games out there. Something like GTA 6 will likely not be able to run on the console due to the CPU-heavy nature of the game.
Similar sentiments were recently shared by content creator eXtas1s, who mentioned that Microsoft is bringing a Call of Duty game, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to the Nintendo Switch 2, Furthermore, he believes that Bethesda will port Fallout 4 and Starfield to Nintendo’s upcoming console. As for Bandai Namco Entertainment, he claimed that the publisher is betting big on the Nintendo Switch 2, with both Tekken 8 and Elden Ring set to arrive on the platform.
