Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 21, 2025) (Patreon)

Hello there - a somewhat different #content meeting this week as we need to start thinking about how to handle Switch 2 when it arrives on June 5th. Pre-orders are in place, we're expecting hardware on launch day - and thus far, we've not heard anything from Nintendo but if the stories online are true about review unit availability, it wouldn't make much difference anyway.

The plan, then, is straightforward: there's a lot of comparison work to be done. Switch 2 upgrades for existing Switch 1 titles. Switch 1 games that don't run particularly well on the system where we'd hope to see improvements running under back compat on Switch 2. Specific third-party Switch 2 launches with existing current-gen and last-gen versions. We will be slowing down (not ceasing by any means) video production from now to bank a lot of these assets so we will be fully good to go when the hardware arrives.

This way, we aim to get completed Switch 2 #content out of the door as quickly as possible. In terms of reviewing the hardware itself, owing to the lack of units before launch, we will be addressing this as we did with PS5 Pro - with multiple staff members testing different things then coming together to record a DF Direct-style review.

Onto this week!

Rich (ie me) got out of the #content meeting this morning to find an Asus RTX 5060 Prime sitting behind the gate in my back garden. This was provided by Asus and Nvidia. We don't have the driver though - this is expecting in just under five hours. I will be putting together a review for you. At this point I'm still waiting for answers about puzzling PC Latency metrics from Nvidia which have held back a huge RTX 5060 Ti review.

John is taking some time off while in Japan, but fancies looking at Tokyo Extreme Racer when he's not taking time off.

Alex is looking at Painkiller RTX and/or the new Portal RTX upgrade with neural radiance cache and DLSS 4 - whichever is the more interesting!

Tom has been working on the STALKER Trilogy next-gen upgrades. It'll go on early access to premium tiers today and goes public tomorrow. Beyond that, well... a big bunch of Cyberpunk 2077 footage from CDPR's press portal has just appeared.

Oliver is taking point on our preparations for Switch 2 but has also got together a bunch of Hogwarts Legacy Switch 2 comparisons, which we'll be talking about in a video that quote-unquote drops this week.

Will is going to be handling the Eurogamer version of the RTX 5060 review, producing a text version of John's mega id Tech 8 interview and continuing his own work, which starts today at 3pm with a review of a range of Hall Effect controllers.

As usual, do keep us updated on anything you feel we should be covering - but that's all I have for you right now. Enjoy your week!