As gaming hardware grows more capable and more complex, the question of who controls the experience — the developer or the player — becomes a quiet but consequential one. Stellar Blade's arrival on Nintendo Switch 2 places that question at the center of its launch, offering players the ability to toggle frame generation on or off and choose their own balance between smoothness and fidelity. In a console designed to live between the couch and the commute, where context shapes what performance even means, this small toggle may carry larger implications for how the industry approaches player agen