Experts at Digital Foundry have published a fresh analysis stating that the Nintendo Switch 2 is experiencing issues when running Unreal Engine 5. The main limitation appears to be the console's processor.
Cronos: The New Dawn, Fortnite, and Split Fiction were analyzed. All these games lack key UE5 technologies — the Lumen global illumination system and Nanite geometry rendering. Specialists noted that the example of Fortnite is particularly telling, where simplifications are striking.
Digital Foundry emphasized that the weak point of Switch 2 remains the processor. Even on a more powerful Ryzen 5 3600, projects like Cronos: The New Dawn or Borderlands 4 face frame drops, and the problems are even more noticeable on the Switch 2 processor.
In Fortnite on the new console, "zones" of object loading are recorded, followed immediately by performance drops. This indicates that the most resource-intensive functions of UE5 are too heavy for Switch 2. As a reminder, the engine was primarily created for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
The problems are not limited to UE5. At Gamescom, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition also demonstrated the need for deep optimization for the Switch 2 processor to achieve stable gameplay.
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