Indiana Jones Switch 2 port reportedly supports NVIDIA DLSS upscaling
- MachineGames creative director Axel Torvenius said Indiana Jones and the Great Circle uses DLSS on Nintendo Switch 2, days before the port’s May 12 release. - The bigger detail is what he didn’t say: no cut content. Torvenius called the Switch 2 version “one-to-one,” framing DLSS as preservation tech. - That matters because Nintendo already confirmed Switch 2 supports DLSS and ray tracing, so Indy becomes an early test of serious current-gen ports.
Nintendo’s new console has had a simple question hanging over it since reveal day — can it run big modern games without turning every port into a compromised version? Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is suddenly one of the clearest tests yet. MachineGames creative director Axel Torvenius has now said the Switch 2 version uses NVIDIA DLSS, and that matters less as a buzzword than as a clue about how this port works. Basically, the game seems to be leaning on AI upscaling so the system can hold onto the original ambition instead of cutting the thing down. (nintendolife.com) ### What actually got confirmed? The new piece of information comes from an interview with Torvenius published by Nintendo Life in the run-up to launch. In that interview, Torvenius also stressed that the Switch 2 edition is “one-to-one” with the other versions and said the team had not scaled back or cut content for Nintendo’s hardware. A separate roundup today pointed to that interview as the reason people are now talking about DLSS specifically in this port. (nintendolife.com) ### Why is DLSS the important part? DLSS is NVIDIA’s upscaling system. The short version is that a game can render internally at a lower resolution, then use trained reconstruction to output a sharper image at a higher target resolution. That can free up performance headroom — which is exactly what a demanding fi(nintendolife.com)uses DLSS, the real translation is: this game probably isn’t brute-forcing native output the whole way. (gameluster.com) ### Why does this game make a good test case? Because The Great Circle is not a lightweight port. It launched first on Xbox and PC in December 2024, then came to PS5 in 2025, and the Switch 2 version lands on May 12, 2026. It’s a first-person, single-player adventure built around large areas, cinematic set pieces, puzzle spaces, stealth, combat, and a lot of visual detail. If Switch 2 can carry that over mostly intact, that says more than a tech demo ever could. (machinegames.com) ### Didn’t Nintendo already say Switch 2 has DLSS? Yes — and that’s the context that makes this more than a stray dev comment. Nintendo representatives previously confirmed that Switch 2 supports DLSS upscaling and ray tracing at the hardware level, while also saying developers can choose how to use those features. What had been mis(machinegames.com)oncrete examples. (gameluster.com) ### Does this mean every Switch 2 port will look amazing? Not automatically. DLSS is a tool, not a miracle. Results depend on internal resolution, frame-rate target, memory limits, art style, and how much work a studio puts into the port. But it does change the conversation. The old assumption was that many big multiplatform games would need obvious (gameluster.com)not wholesale redesign. That is a much better sign for ports arriving over the next year. (nintendolife.com) ### So what’s the real takeaway? This is less about one checkbox and more about a threshold. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle appears to be using Switch 2’s headline NVIDIA feature for exactly the reason people hoped — to keep a current big-budget game intact on weaker hardware. If the final release holds up on May 12, developers will look at Switch 2 less like a side-grade target and more like a viable home for serious modern ports. (nintendolife.com)
