What happened in the Switch demo at PAX?

Well, guess I was right to be cautiously optimistic about this game. While the Switch is not exactly a powerful console, it should have no problem running a game with the graphical fidelity of Bloodstained.

not defending the demo thing but i watched the video showing that GameXplain guy playing it and i observed the low fps but i also observed that the guy is a terrible player (no exploration, no testing new weapons or equiping new stuff he got from chests, got hit multiple times and got a game over).
he even mentioned input lag but to me thats a poor excuse for his terrible lack of skill. I could be wrong though, but i wouldnt get all alarmed because a bad player said he didnt like it.

the question is: should we get worried about a super random demo that nobody was expecting and that is only running in the switch for this specific event? i think not. not even the official staff has mentioned or shown a thing about it.

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EDIT: Bla, bla, bla. turns out i was wrong and other players of the demo have also confirmed a huge input lag that made the demo harder. 

likely based on the sales of Curse of the Moon

That could be it. But Ritual of the Night is going to be very different, so I certainly wouldn't assume such a thing.

There are a couple of possibilities I can think of.

One, it might be that the machines themselves at PAX had been damaged or worn out somehow. Sometimes folks are rough with the controllers; Sunraiser mentioned in Discord that the line for the Switch demo was very very long, and I imagine not everyone was gentle with the controllers. The Switches might have gotten dinged up when they were installed, or possibly weren't connected properly.

Secondly, it's possible the team was asked by Nintendo to put up a Switch demo a little earlier than they'd like. When you port a game to multiple different systems, even if you've got a basic build working on each of them, each build has to be individually optimized for the system it's on. The dev team might not have had a chance to do that before PAX east, but they did want to show that they at least had the game running on the Switch. In a few months, they should finish optimization and solve the slowdown and input lag problems. Trust me, I've been banging on these drums outside of Goofball and Goofball?'s bedrooms for several days now, I've done my best to tell them that they should tell the higher-ups that fixing the Switch port should be their absolute highest priority. But really, I think they'll be able to do so. Optimization usually comes after a basic build is working on a system, so I have faith the devs will be able to fix up the Switch issues quite well.

How quickly the WiiU is forgotten (which is part of why it failed)...

That's right. "Initially" was a word that shouldn't have been overlooked.

Ooh yeah, I meant *finish* optimization. My bad

Astaroth a lot of evidence is pointing towards there was issues for the Switch running the game, not good for anyone to deny the issues as that brings out concern in the consumer that the issues they believe exist aren't even being attempted to be fixed if people won't even acknowledge they exist.
I hope the issues get fixed by launch, but the way things are looking is the Switch version may face a delay or suffer launch issues