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Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2: a cutting-edge game translates well to Nintendo's console hybrid

Tom Morgan tests Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 for Digital Foundry. Does the game - and its challenging Phantom Liberty expansion - run well on mobile hardware?

It's also remarkably the Ultimate Edition of the game, with both the core adventure and the more taxing Phantom Liberty expansion bundled in - an extra portion that proved too demanding to justify a last-gen console release, and was instead restricted to PS5 and Series X/S, and yet here it is running on Switch 2. In a broader comparison, Switch 2 often pushes beyond the last-gen PS4 and even Xbox Series S in this aspect, with both running at lower presets that chop texture map quality to fit within the 5.5GB or 8GB RAM available to devs on their respective systems. For an even more extreme test, accelerated driving through the Kabuki region is a sure-fire way to trigger major drops, and here Switch 2 shows a real limit: a sustained mid-20s reading similar to PS4's, with a traversal hitch or two for good measure.

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