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Do I play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 or should I wait for Switch 3?

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With games now jumping from one generation of consoles to the next, when is the best time to play something? Is there ever a best time?

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On Switch 2 you get only HDR and 4K,no new textures or better graphics. You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.
On Switch 3 you will need to buy it again, only for $ 120.
The flood of remakes and remasters shows how the innovation in large gaming corporations has run dry.
- That's a little disingenuous. There are other gameplay features added for the Switch 2 version.
  
  You mean the app guide and building sharing through QR? That's on your phone. I speak for BOTW and TOTK.
- You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.
  I've read this sentence like 10 times, and I just don't get it. What are you saying here?
  
  Some games, not all, like TOTK, will need upgrade packs costing 10€, so you can play the game in Switch 2. They offer some enhancements to justify the paywall.
  For example.
  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
  Release date: June 5, 2025
  Upgrade details
  Support for the ZELDA NOTES game-specific service via Nintendo Switch App*
  Improved frame rates and resolution
  Faster load times
  HDR support
just don't give this company any more money at this point in time.
Patient gamers FTW!
Just buy a PC. Then you don't have to wonder about this sort of nonsense.
E: you can safely ignore this exchange, I was wrong, Switch 2 is backwards compatible and the "enhanced editions" are only $10 for the upgrade.
- Don't buy, build. It's easier than a Lego set, and extremely satisfying when it boots up for the first time. Plus by hand picking all your parts you can ensure that you have high quality components that will last you a long time.
  
  How are you going to build something you haven't bought?
- Games don’t get upgraded releases on PC? That sucks.
  
  You just turn up the quality settings in the menu. You already paid for the texture and models, you don't need to pay again.
  
  Of course they do. They just don't require you to buy the game again (typically). Or if they do, it's at a deeply-discounted price via DLC.
  
  They do sometimes. It's just that the originals can be easily improved with some free mods most of the time.
Im going to emulate this. Recently I was able to afford me a new PC with a Ryzen 5600X CPU with a RX 7600 GPU, it's time to gaming for me.
- I bought it at release and emulated it 2 days after. Much smoother on PC, even with shader recompiling. Only reason I did it was to remove the duplication patches, but the improved graphics fidelity was a major side benefit.
  
  It runs and looks SO MUCH BETTER on the computer. And MODS!
Emulate it. I'm pretty sure that there are active forks of Switch emulators that lay low.
Either wait for the switch 4, or just port it to pc and enjoy
If you already have a Switch then play it now. If you don't, then wait.
Nintendo has always had my favorite exclusives. My whole life, I’ve been guiding Mario, Link, and Kirby directly into pits hundreds of times a day. I just don’t think I can keep feeding Nintendos greed anymore and I’m a little sad that that part of my life might be over.
- Pirate it, then store it? Then you could keep all your favourites forever.
I'm still waiting for xbox 12 before getting skyrim...
Nintendo fucked me over with the WiiU and Zelda BotW... won't buy anything from them ever again
- What did they do?
  
  They released a game for a console you already owned, and then released it again on the new console, and people got mad? I dunno.
  I loved my Wii U, and loved playing BotW on it. I guess it wasn't designed to use the control pad in any special way, which was a bit of a drag, but it played great.
For me the answer is pretty clear, right now with my overclocked Switch 1, I get above 40 FPS most of the time (60 in certain areas) with BOTW and also I am using Fizeau to improve the colors to make it look more like a Switch OLED (it even looks great on the TV), I don't expect TOTK being too different.
- 40 FPS? lol thats sad
  
  It is pretty good for a system that is capped at 30 FPS though, and 40 FPS is the very minimum it reaches, it usually stays around 50-60, but we all already knew the Switch 1 internals were underclocked.
  I think I could aim for a more stable 60 FPS but my Switch still has the OG thermal paste and the environment where I live is hot, so I am more than comfortable with what I can get without harming my Switch in this scenario.
Being entirely honest: You can skip Tears of the Kingdom. I don't think it's a particularly fun game. It's a miraculous piece of software, the various systems interact without crashing...somehow. But I don't think it's a particularly fun game.
I’m playing it on the Switch 1
Switch 2 is a dud. No OLED
- I imagine they expect releasing a version without OLED first and one with OLED later will give them double sales with many nintendo fans, just like what happened to the switch.
  
  Yeah, i expect a Switch 2 OLED model in 2 years. Maybe 3 years, if sales keep going.
- OLED VRR is a big problem and holding a small OLED screen close to your face when VRR flickering is happening would be very annoying.
- It may be a miniLED since it supports HDR which honestly wouldn’t be terrible. Would even make it brighter than an OLED
- They chose VRR over OLED, which is, in my opinion, a good choice.

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