[ Nintendo Switch 2 Fixes Rune Factory 5’s Troubled Performance on Switch 1] When Rune Factory 5 was first announced as the long-awaited mainline entry after years of silence following RF4, Earthmates everywhere were beyond excited. But that hype quickly turned to disappointment when the game launched in Japan in May 2021 for the first-generation Nintendo Switch. Players were met with a host of technical issues—bugs, unstable performance, and drastic frame rate drops were at the top of the list.