Switch 2 Split Fiction Owners Can Apparently Use GameShare To Invite Nintendo Switch Players

So does that mean this game could come to Switch 1? Or is this just a mistake on EA's part.

@anoyonmus

Gameshare is essentially streaming the game to the second console which allows it to be played on Switch 1 despite it not being powerful enough to run it natively.

If it works well it will be a really cool feature for Switch 2.

Yeah - basically it works with the OG Switch because it's using similar principles to how the Wii U GamePad functioned (or the PlayStation Portal nowadays); streaming video/audio over a local network from powerful hardware (Switch 2) to another screen (OG Switch).

this makes no sense. how will it not just crash and burn on switch 1? if a switch 1 owner is your opponent, then they're cooked.

@MangoMahn
It’s just streaming video much like remote play, think of how split screen renders two or more instances of the game at the same time but with gameshare Switch 2 streams over the second instance to another Switch.

@SBandy1 hmmm i see

It's so damn cool.

Why did Nintendo not highligh this more ? It's an incredible feature

I do wonder if this would work with first party titles as well. (MarioKartWorld)

@sanderev : They've announced a handful of older Switch 1 games that will be supported (including Captain Toad, Clubhouse Games, Super Mario 3D World, New Super Mario Bros. U etc.).

They haven't announced anything regarding Mario Kart World though... yet. And given how stingy the Download Play mode was on Mario Kart DS (fortunately much less so on the 3DS), I think Nintendo would rather sell more units of MKW instead of incentivising families to merely buy one copy between them.

GameShare would be an absolute game-changer though, and even more so if Switch 1 players can also play MKW.

@sanderev It works with Split Fiction because it shares/stream the exact same splitscreen. Mario Kart World is not one of those games that feature GameShare.

@SillyG You can't compare Download Play and GameShare in that way. GameShare is streaming. GameShare does not work with a game like Mario Kart World except if everyone has the same view and controls the same kart.

@Yosti Look at the 51 WorldWide Classics GameShare, they don't all have the same screen.

Check the card game during the stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SfEEw0pKw

Ofcourse this still is streaming. But the host renders the other screens as well but at a lower resolution. And you can ofcourse control different players. So technically it could work with MarioKart, but I don't know if they will. (I guess this will be detailed in the upcoming Direct)

You basically render (up to) 4 1080p screens (4x 1080p = 4K) and then display player 1 screen at 1080. Consoles 2-4 display screen 2-4. Or render 4 720p screens (4x 720p = 1440p) and do the same for handheld.

Kudos to EA for this, here. We all love to hate them, but credit due it seems in this instance. (Obviously, we will have to wait and see how the port turns out) 🤣

Hoping the latency and picture quality is good with it being a streaming implementation rather than the Download Play method

Nice, I didn't know the Switch 2 had Download Play back! (now it's called GameShare though)
Good feature, games like Split Fiction (awesome game) benefits a lot from that, of course. I hope we'll see it often in the future.

@sanderev You are correct. But that seems more suitable for those games. If it is technically possible to do the same with Mario Kart World I expect the experience for an action based race game to be subpar.

I think it would be easier to do with a game like Super Mario 3D World, but in the video that game has 4 times the exact same screen?

@Yosti True, but it's basically memory management. Rendering on it's own isn't the issue. You can lower the resolution and basically make a split screen render (which MarioKartWorld already does when playing multiplayer on one console) you just then have to split the render in (up to) four parts and distribute those wirelessly to other Switches.

However if you would run entirely different worlds at the same time, it would double memory usage and split the render pipeline in two. Basically what "The Medium" did.

the same principle as steam play together. only one player needs to have the game. i know this cause this is how i played the game with a friend. in this age, when nintendo don’t let you have 2 game saves on some games, there are this guys who basically let you play the game on 2 consoles at the same time.

If this really works the Switch2 might very well become my most favorite console ever.

Streaming from S2 to S1

Amazing !

Wait this has crossplay? So if I buy it for Switch 2, can my friend download the Friend Pass thing for free on PS5 and then play with me?

@thenikdavies Yep, that seems to be the case. Very cool.

@thenikdavies Yes. Just like the previous games.

This is brilliant! Download play is back - sort of - and works with the OG switch. Ingenious move.

For those thinking how this might impact sales, the DS did pretty well with download play. Console and Games were obviously much cheaper but still. I wouldn’t want to guess if it’ll hurt sales or not. However I’m hopeful we’ll see this implemented on many games to lessen the blow of how expensive there are.

@Yosti
In a lot of ways for a game like Mario Kart it's not really that different to doing local co-op via split screen. The only real difference is that you'd have to consume some of the GPU resources encoding the video

But I would note that the media block on the Switch 2's SoC was one of the few things they specifically enhanced about Switch 2. They've made a point of enhancing that part of the Switch 2 internals specifically. I'm fairly confident it could do game share without much drag on general performance

So it's mostly just a question of how much slower 2 player full-res split screen would be. And also whether or not they want to offer that when people could instead buy the game twice

I think there's a non-zero chance we see Game Share in Mario Kart World. But probably limited to 2 player local wireless

@BANJO I'd less thank EA themselves and more thank Hazelight for creating such a robust game sharing system that it can easily just make use of Switch 2's gameshare.

But seriously this is neat and I'd love to see more Switch 2 games make use of the switch as a second screen.

In fact an idea this game me is a stripped down Switch that is just the screen and wifi components. Meaning cheaper than a switch but able to receive screen share.

Most people should already have a switch they can use. But just in case they don't this would help use the function without buying two consoles.

@Yosti That's not correct. In the Switch 2 Direct, they showed playing a poker game where each player has their own screen displaying different cards.

It's like the Wii U GamePad: the main console renders multiple screens and streams the appropriate display to the remote devices.

For Split Fiction, yeah, it's the same screen, but if you were going to replicate NintendoLand on Switch 2 using a Switch 1 for the second screen, you could totally do that.

I would LOVE for NintendoLand to be ported to the Switch 2: I still play the multiplayer games with my kids: The Ghost game, Mario Chase, The Zelda sword/archery one, even occasionally the Pikmin game. Those are some great games, and the asymmetry contributes a lot to the fun.

@burndive Yes I know. Do you expect the same with Mario Kart World?

@Yosti MKW won't support the feature (at least not that I've heard.)

But in general if a game can render multiplayer in split screen, it can render it on multiple screens at a lower resolution each with the same resources.

Yes, which works great for games like 51 WorldWide Classics.

@Bentleyma @SalvorHardin Thx for explaining!

I saw this pic, saw zero g on the bike and proceeded to get excited about a possible extreme g game for the new console until I saw split fiction.

This is decidedly cool. My Switch OLED will still have purpose.