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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9407920" data-attributes="member: 18">Vastly so.[USER=6803643]@Marandahir[/USER]&nbsp; Re: Switch 2, if the rumoured specs are correct, it's unlikely BG3 would easily run on it, but might be possible to downgrade enough to get going. The Switch 2 is pretty powerful compared to the Switch, it's about as powerful as a PS4 when handheld, but here's the thing - BG3 isn't on PS4 or PS4 Pro, and only runs okay on PS5, which is more than twice as powerful as PS4 Pro (let alone a PS4).Because the Switch 2 market will probably grow pretty rapidly and be pretty large and relatively evergreen (like the Switch), I wouldn't completely rule out Larian farming out a conversion to a third-party company who might be able to cut it down enough to basically run at like 20 FPS.You can easily fool yourself into believing this if you look at hobby coders messing around with ultra-well-understood codebases for games people obsessively port to other hardware (which is all the ones you listed), and are very practiced at making run, but it's not being realistic. There is no possibility of BG3 appearing on the current Switch in any form that people would actually buy, rather than hobby gamers would find amusing. Switch 2, like I said, a third party conversion company might do it, if Larian wants.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9407920, member: 18"] Vastly so. [USER=6803643]@Marandahir[/USER] Re: Switch 2, if the rumoured specs are correct, it's unlikely BG3 would easily run on it, but might be possible to downgrade enough to get going. The Switch 2 is pretty powerful compared to the Switch, it's about as powerful as a PS4 when handheld, but here's the thing - BG3 isn't on PS4 or PS4 Pro, and only runs okay on PS5, which is more than twice as powerful as PS4 Pro (let alone a PS4). Because the Switch 2 market will probably grow pretty rapidly and be pretty large and relatively evergreen (like the Switch), I wouldn't completely rule out Larian farming out a conversion to a third-party company who might be able to cut it down enough to basically run at like 20 FPS. You can easily fool yourself into believing this if you look at hobby coders messing around with ultra-well-understood codebases for games people obsessively port to other hardware (which is all the ones you listed), and are very practiced at making run, but it's not being realistic. There is no possibility of BG3 appearing on the current Switch in any form that people would actually buy, rather than hobby gamers would find amusing. Switch 2, like I said, a third party conversion company might do it, if Larian wants. [/QUOTE]

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