DF Direct Special: Nintendo Switch 2 - Year One - The Digital Foundry Verdict
From Digital Foundry Direct Weekly by Digital Foundry
June 6, 2026 · 51 min
About this episode
The episode reviews the first year of the Nintendo Switch 2, assessing its performance and features.
At the time of publication, it has been one year and one day since Nintendo launched the Switch 2 console - so, as is DF tradition, it's time to look back over the last year and assess the system's track record so far. Strong back compat, impressive first and third party support, actual ray tracing and game-changing DLSS results - has Nintendo managed to put a foot wrong at all? 00:00 Overview 01:10 Is Switch 2 a generational leap over Switch 1? 11:40 What are the worst and best Switch 2 ports? 21:46 Has Nintendo extracted the most from Switch 2 in their own games? 27:34 Have we accepted Switch 2’s hardware flaws? 33:27 What do we make of GameChat, GameShare, and mouse controls? 37:51 How do we rate Switch 2’s backwards compatibility? 44:08 Concluding thoughts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Topics covered
- Nintendo Switch 2
- console performance
- backwards compatibility
- game support
- hardware flaws
- game controls
Keywords
- Nintendo
- Switch 2
- backwards compatibility
- ray tracing
- DLSS
- game support
- hardware flaws
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nintendo
Products: Switch 2, Switch 1
Books & works: GameChat, GameShare, DLSS, ray tracing
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