Topic: Game Suspend

One thing I’m curious about that I’ve not seen addressed yet is whether Switch 2 will have the ability to store multiple suspended games at the same time or if we’re still limited to one at a time.

The ideal would obviously be that every account gets to hold a suspended game at any time.

Obviously this is particularly important for being able to access the eShop.

A related question that I’ve not seen answered yet (the answer might not be out there yet) is whether Switch 1 games do load faster without needing a Switch 2 edition.

We can talk about all kinds of things but ultimately it’s little things like these that will make the console feel like a more natural experience and encourage players to spend more time with it.

Interesting, people have such different way of playing on the Switch, I've never thought of having more than one game on suspend at the same time. I guess it makes sense if you're playing two or more games at the same time that have a dearth of save points, but I've never been in such a situation.

As for the load times, technically Switch 2 should be able to load Switch 1 games faster, but apparently they are run on some kind of emulator, so I guess it depends on how effective that is.

I never leave games on suspend unless I am going to play them again. I save and turn off the console to save power and battery and something restarting helps it run better as well.

Suspending games to me seems to be a system resource hog for no favourable gains.

@StarLord87 It has hugely favourable gains if you share your Switch with other users.

Also - as @Anakin has noted - it'd be good to be able to open YouTube (or one of the NSO apps) without the friction of waiting for the loading screen and knowing that going back into your game will take a minute or two.

I mean I might be alone in this but a more robust game suspend system makes far more impact on the attractiveness of the system to me than the gamechat function (which I will never personally use).

@StuTwo See I have more use for the chat system so I guess it depends on individual use cases. I just don't use the suspend function and if I do need to go to YouTube I have it in picture in picture from my TV or connected to my phone.

Quick Resume is my favourite new feature on the Xbox Series. Hell, it might even be my favourite new feature of current gen. It's a shame I don't play my Xbox nearly enough to actually use it.

I agree this would've been great on Switch 2, especially considering I find myself playing multiple games on the Switch at a time these days. It was definitely high on my list of desires OS-wise. But I think as long as save points are frequent and loading times are fast enough, it's no big loss.

Eh, outside of older titles I never saw the appeal. A good save system does the trick most of the time.

I highly doubt it will. That's the kind of feature they would have highlighted in the Direct, along with some way the feature would be uniquely Nintendo. Definitely would be great to have, but I don't it's coming.

I do use suspend quite often, but never more than one game at a time.