Nintendo confirms - No VRR for Switch 2 in TV mode

VRR is a game changer for me, especially in this day and age when everything is unoptimized slop. I'll just wait for a revision on Switch 2 where Nintendo patch it in along with better battery and more storage. And maybe OLED.
 
Right, I'm pretty sure all the "normies®" were thrilled to hear that they had to buy a 200 Eurodollars headset for their portal if they wanted a wireless solution, or the "normies®" that had just spent 1000++ Eurodollars on a "latest and greatest" 4K TV back in 2020 to use it with their shiny PS quintuple to hear that their shiny new toy couldn't do VRR - even more so if they were unlucky enough to get the Sony XH900 which was botched since its inception due to the shitty mediatek SOC (if you know you know).

So yeah, while there may be tech illiterate people out there, most of them do care about this shit whether you agree or not.
You are living in a bubble. Tell yourself your views are not niche all you want. Most will buy the New Switch plug it into their TV and simply have fun. Look at the Pokemon games on the Switch with their choppy framerates etc. Outside of the core who actually cared. You are deluded like many on here. And spend far too much time playing videogames and discussing them on niche internet sites. The problem with this is it's gives the impression it's far more people than it actually is in reality.

I am well aware as I spend a lot or time playing videogames and on here. But if I mention any of this stuff to regular people it won't be long until their eyes start to glaze over. ;)
 
VRR looks like shit on an OLED, so it's no loss for me.

This kind of topic always puts me in the minority on GAF.... we've never owned a VRR tv nor a 4K one for that matter, nor are any of our TVs larger than what would be called a medium size. I hate seeing wall-sized TVs in living rooms, and I've never kept a set for less than 15 years before replacing. TV-maxxing is weird to me.

Also, the "primary" mode for Switch 1/2 has always been handheld, and that's where the majority of play happens. Most families only put it on the TV when doing multiplayer and party games. I've seen this pattern firsthand a million times since we interact with a ton of Switch owners who are all families with kids like ours. The dock is generally treated more like a special tv-out convenience when you want to show something off or do 2-player local.
Well majority will play it on handheld mode
You are living in a bubble. Tell yourself your views are not niche all you want. Most will buy the New Switch plug it into their TV and simply have fun. Look at the Pokemon games on the Switch with their choppy framerates etc. Outside of the core who actually cared. You are deluded like many on here. And spend far too much time playing videogames and discussing them on niche internet sites. The problem with this is it's gives the impression it's far more people than it actually is in reality.

I am well aware as I spend a lot or time playing videogames and on here. But if I mention any of this stuff to regular people it won't be long until their eyes start to glaze over. ;)

Ahhhh those are the reactions I was looking for. Nice job guys, another successful Nintendo defense! 🫡
 
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which people keep bashing all these things?. People on here or other niche sites. I think outside of core hobby gamers nobody actually cares or even notices.

The fact that you're actually defending this is embarrassing. It's embarrassing that you defend a decision that is against helping the consumer by implementing something that could help there gaming experience. We're not in 2000 anymore and 4k tv's with VRR are the standard and will continue to be the standard moving forward in the tv market and in consumer households.

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You are living in a bubble. Tell yourself your views are not niche all you want. Most will buy the New Switch plug it into their TV and simply have fun. Look at the Pokemon games on the Switch with their choppy framerates etc. Outside of the core who actually cared. You are deluded like many on here. And spend far too much time playing videogames and discussing them on niche internet sites. The problem with this is it's gives the impression it's far more people than it actually is in reality.

I am well aware as I spend a lot or time playing videogames and on here. But if I mention any of this stuff to regular people it won't be long until their eyes start to glaze over. ;)

Fuck man, i can't 😆
 
Not really needed. Developers should make sure their games actually hit the 60fps target if they're going to include the mode.
 
The fact that you're actually defending this is embarrassing. It's embarrassing that you defend a decision that is against helping the consumer by implementing something that could help there gaming experience. We're not in 2000 anymore and 4k tv's with VRR are the standard and will continue to be the standard moving forward in the tv market and in consumer households.

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Never defended it. Just pointed out people outside core hobby gamers do not care about any of this. That seems to trigger you and others more than the fact the Switch 2 has no VRR in docked mode lol.
 
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It falls back to Freesync anyway and will still be better than nothing, Gsync and Freesync are more ubiquitous than VRR in my own experience
If in fact V-Sync is supported when docked… Makes sense to avoid any mention of this to avoid even more confusion due the limited support of TVs… But will see.
 
Keep on telling yourself all the masses really want this or even care. People on here in bubbles speaking to people in similar bubbles. ;)
"The normies don't care, they just wanna turn their Nintendo system on and have fun, only nerds like you actually care about this stuff!"

This is the Nintendo fanboy's last line of defense literally every time there's a discussion about something Nintendo lacks. Come on man, don't be that guy. Just stay out of technical discussions if you're going to say stuff like that.
 
Ahhhh those are the reactions I was looking for. Nice job guys, another successful Nintendo defense! 🫡

Doubt it. If Nintendo's old Switch statistics are anything to go by "only" ~30% of users play exclusively in handheld mode.

And the Switch Lite only accounts for ~17% of all Switch (1) sales.

With the Switch 2 having more power and actually being able to output 4K and such I'd think more people would be incentivized to play on their TV's this time rather than the other way around.
Well I want it for handheld gaming reason. And I want Switch 2 because of there exclusives like the next Zelda, Mario and Metroid and most Japanese AA game exclusives will come out of Switch 2 which is probably the biggest mistake of Sony abandoning AA Japanese games exclusives. And for a handheld it is pretty good visuals. My TV will be mostly for Ps5 gaming.
 
This makes zero sense. My LG C9 and Samsung s90D OLEDs have zero VRR issues. What are you talking about?
the only way that quote makes any logical sense is that VRR doesnt work below 48fps, but that has nothing to do with OLED, it's just the way VRR is spec'd and Sony put it in PS5 to spec.
 
Honestly my beef with nintendo is the fact they used to be more pro consumer then they used to be. Now they just put two middle fingers in the air and try nickle and diming consumers over every little thing to the point that it's insane. The biggest one to me that happened a couple of years ago is when they lauched the 3D mario all-stars collection on switch only for a limited time and then stopped selling it both physically and on the nintendo e-shop loll.


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When the hell has Nintendo EVER been pro-consumer? The fuck are you smoking? This is the same company that refused to move over the CDs/DVDs even when the rest of the industry did and their N64 cartridge games would cost like double what PS1s CD games were.

They've always been huffing their own supply.
 
That's why i think is going to be there in some form, probably in the future via a firmware upgrade or G-Sync only.

IIRC, the "Mobile G-Sync" even on PC is really just VRR.

When the hell has Nintendo EVER been pro-consumer? The fuck are you smoking? This is the same company that refused to move over the CDs/DVDs even when the rest of the industry did and their N64 cartridge games would cost like double what PS1s CD games were.

They've always been huffing their own supply.

The short loading times from using the carts was nice.
 
That's why i think is going to be there in some form, probably in the future via a firmware upgrade or G-Sync only.
For a mid 2025 system, it's something that should've been available on day one, but then again, Sony took ages to add something as minor (but important to many) as a native 1440p support, so i guess it is what it is with these companies.
 
the only way that quote makes any logical sense is that VRR doesnt work below 48fps, but that has nothing to do with OLED, it's just the way VRR is spec'd and Sony put it in PS5 to spec.
I wonder if that is what he is referring to. Forgot about that part of the PS5 VRR implementation. The one thing Xbox did better this gen than Sony was VRR implementation.
 
"The normies don't care, they just wanna turn their Nintendo system on and have fun, only nerds like you actually care about this stuff!"

This is the Nintendo fanboy's last line of defense literally every time there's a discussion about something Nintendo lacks. Come on man, don't be that guy. Just stay out of technical discussions if you're going to say stuff like that.
Like I said if you feel this is being discussed in wider circles then I feel sorry for you. Like I have stated I am not defending anything. I am simply stating outside of niche internet forums nobody cares. This for some reason seems to trigger some on here.

And I have to stay out of technical discussions because I say things you do not like. Sounds very reasonable lol.
 
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PS5 VRR affects all of there games my man. It can be toggled for games that don't even have it implemented into the game itself.

Didn't help FFXVI.

Actually, people have told me the great PS5 didn't have VRR on FFXVI, and still people bought it up in droves, even without VRR support.

Would not surprise me the least if GTA6 also did not get VRR support either, due to being 30fps.
 
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The biggest problem with this is we won't be getting unlocked framerate modes. That mode in Cyberpunk will be capped to 40, but how high can it really go. How much performance are they leaving on the table. We will never know.
 
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Or earlier. PS4 is 1.4 and has HDR support.

You're 50/50 on this one.
PS4 supported HDR, but HDMI 1.4 does not support it.

The PS4 APU's HDMI port is actually disabled. It outputs through Displayport, which did support HDR at the time, and then an external Panasonic chip on the motherboard converts that to HDMI-plus-HDR.
It's the reason PS4 was able to offer HDR, but base Xbox One could not.
It's also why they were never able to add Freesync to PS4. The PS4 APU supported it, but the custom Panasonic chip did not.

Here's a video of a hacking group discussing this:

 
Like I said if you feel this is being discussed in wider circles then I feel sorry for you. Like I have stated I am not defending anything. I am simply stating outside of niche internet forums nobody cares. This for some reason seems to trigger some on here.

And I have to stay out of technical discussions because I say things you do not like. Sounds very reasonable lol.
It's out in the mass media.



 
It's out in the mass media.



You are simply confirming my points by bringing up niche internet gaming sites. Do you really think the mass majority of people that are going to buy a Switch 2 will be on sites like Eurogamer. You are taking your delusion to a whole new level. But please feel free to carry on lol.
 
You are simply confirming my points by bringing up niche internet gaming sites. Do you really think the mass majority of people that are going to buy a Switch 2 will be on sites like Eurogamer. You are taking your delusion to a whole new level. But please feel free to carry on lol.
What the hell are you talking about. Those aren't niche game sites.
 
"The normies don't care, they just wanna turn their Nintendo system on and have fun, only nerds like you actually care about this stuff!"

This is the Nintendo fanboy's last line of defense literally every time there's a discussion about something Nintendo lacks. Come on man, don't be that guy. Just stay out of technical discussions if you're going to say stuff like that.

No this is the reality, not a "line of defense". He's perfectly right, and unfortunately so, I would add.
I'm the last tech-expert person here so no idea if it's some thing where Nintendo cheapened out, or what is the reason for this, but it's completely right to call them out for it on forums such as this one.

It doesn't change anything about what he said which is completely true, most people don't even know what VRR even is and don't even care.
 
"The normies don't care, they just wanna turn their Nintendo system on and have fun, only nerds like you actually care about this stuff!"

This is the Nintendo fanboy's last line of defense literally every time there's a discussion about something Nintendo lacks. Come on man, don't be that guy. Just stay out of technical discussions if you're going to say stuff like that.

His argument is that nintendo shouldn't do anything pro-comsumer or anything that benefits gamers because some people might not care. He has no ground to stand on and yet he continues to post triggered reactions and laughing reactions at everyone in this thread for calling nintendo out. It's clown crap truthfully.
 
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