Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Matches PS5 on Switch 2

You know that small thrill when a handheld does something it has no business doing this well? That is today, because Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves just launched on Switch 2, and the channel ElAnalistaDeBits put it through its paces against PS5 and Steam Deck in a fresh comparison.

Here is the tiny, lovely detail: the Switch 2 version runs a stable 60fps in both docked and handheld modes, according to ElAnalistaDeBits, with no asterisk, no caveat about one mode being the lesser cousin of the other. You tuck it in your bag, you set it on the dock, and the fighting game underneath does not care which one you picked. That is the whole promise of a hybrid console, finally paid off in full rather than in installments.

The graphics quality, per the same comparison, lands remarkably close to the PS5 build, with the only real difference being how many NPCs populate the background scenery. Textures on Switch 2 reportedly clear the Steam Deck's own recommended settings by a wide margin, which is a funny little inversion when you remember which of these two devices came out first and which one is supposed to be the scrappy underdog.

And that is the quiet knife in this story: Valve's handheld, older and more expensive to push hard, is the one getting outrun by the newcomer it was supposed to make look slow.

None of this means Steam Deck owners are stuck with something broken. It means a game studio sat down, looked at three very different boxes, and decided the Nintendo one deserved the same care as the PlayStation one instead of a scaled-down afterthought. That decision shows up in every frame ElAnalistaDeBits lined up side by side, and it is the kind of decision that should embarrass hardware a full generation apart from matching it.

If you have been holding your Switch 2 purchase hostage to proof that the thing can actually run a modern fighter without flinching, you now have it on good authority from someone who put the three versions next to each other and filmed the result. Buy the handheld for the handheld reasons. Just know the horsepower argument quietly stopped being a reason to wait.