Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. Every Thursday GTA 6 O'clock Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts. Every Friday Knowledge From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon. Every Thursday The Setup Every Wednesday Switch 2 Spotlight Every Saturday The Watchlist Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! After a pretty disastrous launch, Bethesda is making some strong improvements to Skyrim on Switch 2. A new patch actually brings a rather momentous improvement, because it unlocks 60fps on the RPG, and players cannot believe their eyes. In the patch notes for update 1.2 on Switch 2, the top feature is a 60 Hz mode that lets you select to either "Prioritize Visuals" or "Prioritize Performance." Relatively innocuous on its face, the latter does something magic: it unlocks 60fps, in both docked and handheld modes. Naturally, this is spreading like wildfire throughout the community, because a lot of players are still enjoying Skyrim on modern hardware. Hey, if people weren't still buying it, Bethesda wouldn't keep porting it, right? The reaction is hugely positive, too. Bethesda knows Skyrim has released "for the 117th time" thanks to the Switch 2 port, but "there's still a huge audience" Skyrim's Switch 2 port "runs like wet a**," players say Skyrim Switch 2 input lag is being investigated by Bethesda, devs offer a potential solution in the meantime "Thanks to the team and Bethesda for listening and making this massive improvement. If you were on the fence about playing this on Switch 2, it is absolutely worth it!" writes one enthusiastic fan on Reddit, who provides a short clip of the fidelity on the handheld. "I wanna cry, it's beautiful," adds another commenter on Reddit. There is something about seeing the fifth mainline Elder Scrolls game still looking good after a decade-and-a-half that is startling. The port probably should've been released with this built in. Skyrim arrived on Nintendo's system in a shoddy state, and there are several crash fixes in the update, and that's not lost on the audience either. "Bethesda doing bare minimum again," says one fan on Twitter. At least anyone who picks it up now can enjoy shouting, "Fus Ro Dah!" on the go at 60fps, instead of just doing so to random strangers. Or is that just me? Post-Skyrim and pre-Fallout 4 was a glorious time at Bethesda, devs say: "When we made that game, it was like World Series Red Sox"