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The feature, which is buried at the bottom of Nintendo's patch notes, allows for boosted Switch 1 games when playing in handheld, with performance akin to playing with the console docked.

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[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Curious if this gives games with a Switch 2 upgrade the same benefit. I mostly want higher fps in games like Tears of the Kingdom, so if this patch gives it to me, I won't need to purchase those upgrades.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I think this is more like allowing for Switch 1 Docked mode experience in Handheld mode as opposed to applying the native upgrades from the Switch 2.

[-] setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

As far as I know Tears of the Kingdom is capped at 30 fps and 900p on Switch 1 in docked mode. This update gets you this Switch 1 docked mode experience on handheld, so it should not get you 60 fps or any of the other improvements of the switch 2 upgrade pack.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

So just higher res, that's kind of a lame trade off for less battery life. I've had no issue with lower res S1 titles looking weird on the S2. I guess my pc brain equated bumping cpu speed (which is what the dock does) with increase in fps.

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