Over the past few days, eagle-eyed Fortnite players noticed something was missing from the game. Out of nowhere, video capture was no longer working for Switch.
Epic has now confirmed, however, this was an intentional decision made to improve Fortnite’s performance on Nintendo’s console.
Community moderator Sean Hamilton took to r/NintendoSwitch to explain why the feature had been removed. According to Hamilton, removing the feature “saves a significant amount of RAM while also having a positive effect on overall performance across the board”. Epic had apparently been seeing “a high rate of Out of Memory related crashes”, and the company’s hope is removing video capture will help solve this problem.
Source: Eurogamer Fortnite for Switch's video capture disabled due to performance issues