Fortnite Switch 2 Technical Specs Revealed: 60FPS, Boosted Resolution, Mouse Controls

Epic Games has elaborate its method specifications for the caller mentation of Fortnite coming to Nintendo Switch 2, and revealed that rodent enactment would get successful an imminent patch.

As you'd expect, this caller mentation of the deed conflict royale volition get with an improved frame-rate (now 60FPS) and amended solution (2176x1224 erstwhile Switch 2 is docked, oregon 1600x900 undocked).

The caller Nintendo console besides allows for a greater gully distance, truthful you tin propulsion disconnected much of those saccharine agelong scope shots, arsenic good arsenic covering physics and higher-quality textures, shadows and h2o rendering.

Replays, which are not disposable successful the Switch 1 mentation of Fortnite, volition yet beryllium disposable for you to peruse and spot which horrible idiosyncratic killed you. The game's archetypal Save the World information volition inactive not beryllium available, however, arsenic it has ne'er been sold connected Nintendo platforms.

The adjacent main Fortnite update, mentation 37.00, volition adhd rodent controls erstwhile Epic makes it disposable to download this Saturday, June 7. As you'd expect, by default your rodent volition regenerate the close analog instrumentality and let you to look utilizing the Joy-Con 2's optical sensor instead.

Mouse controls volition beryllium unlocked for each large Fortnite modes (Battle Royale, Zero Build, Team Rumble, Reload, Reload - Zero Build, Fortnite OG and Fortnite OG Zero Build). You'll besides beryllium capable to usage rodent controls successful menus.

Fortnite: Switch 2 Edition.

Fortnite: Switch 2 Edition.

Fortnite: Switch 2 Edition.

Fortnite: Switch 2 Edition.

As a invited to Switch 2, anyone playing Fortnite connected Nintendo's caller console from present until March 31, 2026 volition unlock an exclusive emote, Wishing Star, which Epic Games describes thus: "Grab a shooting star, marque a wish, and propulsion it back! You can’t spell connected an aerial thrust with it, but it’s the adjacent champion thing." Nice Kirby notation there! One day, maybe, we'll get Nintendo characters decently successful the game.

Fortnite is disposable close present connected Switch 2, arsenic the console launches astir the world. Currently, the crippled is successful the closing stages of its Star Wars play Galactic Battle, which is acceptable to wrapper up this Saturday with a one-time unrecorded lawsuit wherever players get to sneak aboard the Death Star.

It's been a engaged week for Epic Games, which has been talking astir the aboriginal of AI successful its Unreal Engine and successful Fortnite pursuing the caller merchandise of a precise chatty AI-powered Darth Vader. We've besides heard from Epic and The Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red connected that eye-catching Witcher 4 demo — and whether the last crippled volition really look thing similar it.

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