Proper usage of the NVIDIA DLSS upscaler can make the Nintendo Switch 2 punch well above its weight in terms of image quality and even surpass the Xbox Series S, as highlighted by the excellent work CAPCOM has done with its Street Fighter 6 port.
The tech experts at Digital Foundry recently took a good look at the port of the latest entry in the series which debuted on PC and consoles two years back, highlighting how NVIDIA DLSS does a great job upscaling the image to 1080p in docked mode from the low base resolution of 540p. Though there are some issues like visible aliasing and flicker when characters reveal the background, the end results are considered better in terms of sharpness and image stability than those produced by CAPCOM’s in-house upscaler used in the Xbox Series S version, which renders at native 1080 but doesn’t handle image noise well. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game also beats the Xbox Series S release in terms of texture quality, despite the minor 1 GB differences in available RAM in favor of the Nintendo system. In other cases, however, the Nintendo Switch 2 version is closer to the PlayStation 4 release with no screen space reflections in Fighting Ground matches, missing depth of field, background NPC counts restricted to the standard setting, and non-interactive physics-based particles. In handheld mode, with a lower 360p base resolution upscaled to 720p and additional graphics cutbacks to keep the 60 FPS target, the game is even closer to the PlayStation 4 version, which is still rather impressive, for a handheld.
Though obviously more powerful than its predecessor, the Nintendo Switch 2 is proving with some of its launch titles and upgrades to original Switch games what it is capable of achieving. The Splatoon 3 upgrade is particularly impressive, as it increases resolution by five to six times in certain scenarios while keeping the framerate to a steady 60 FPS, making playing the third entry in the series on the system the way to go to enjoy it at its very best.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is now available worldwide. You can learn more about the system by checking out Chris’s review.
