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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Why Are the Biggest Third-Party Games on Nintendo Switch 2 So Hit or Miss?

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

4.7544 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Thank you so much to our Patreon community for supporting this channel. Join us today at http://www.Patreon.com/KitAndKrysta for exclusive content including predictions and reactions to the latest Switch 2 news
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Hi! We just got back from Gamescom where we played a ton of third-party games coming to Switch 2 and we were surprised by the very uneven levels quality across various games. We wanted to dig into what might be going on here and what it means for the future of Switch 2. If you get a chance to play any of these games at PAX West later this week, please let us know!

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0:00.0

We're here to talk about what in the world is going on with these third-party games on Switch 2.

0:08.0

The heck is going on here.

0:09.0

Yeah, there's really a wide range of things. There's some good, there's some bad, there's some confusing, there's some just pure ugly.

0:20.0

There's just the range of what is happening just

0:23.6

seems to be all over the map. So we got to sit down and talk about it and figure out what's going on.

0:27.6

Yeah, there's a lot of big name games that have come out and are coming out. And we recently

0:32.6

at Gamescom got a chance to see and play. A lot of these that people had not seen before.

0:38.3

And they're kind of all over the place in terms of like the quality of the version that's on Switch 2.

0:44.3

We're kind of going beyond like, is it a fun game or not?

0:48.3

Yeah.

0:49.3

It's just like, is the version on Switch 2?

0:51.3

Playable.

0:52.3

If you had your pick, if you had all these consoles, would you opt to play that

0:56.2

version of the game?

0:58.3

It's true, and it's been about three months since the launch of Switch 2, and I think

1:03.9

going into this launch, a lot of people, us included, had really high hopes and expectations

1:10.3

that in this generation for Nintendo,

1:12.8

we're finally going to have just this massive ground swell of third-party support on the platform.

1:19.3

Finally, we can play these sort of like this-gen games. Finally, a Nintendo hardware is going to be

1:24.9

powerful enough to run these games.

1:29.6

And so we had very high hopes and high expectations, but it seems like after three months,

1:34.7

there has just been a lot of question marks still.

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