Yeah the general performance and framerate drops look really bad, but I must admit the overall look is not terrible. Not a buy from me, though.
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Digital Foundry: The Witcher 3 on Switch Hands-on – The Most Ambitious Switch Port Ever?
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Yeah the general performance and framerate drops look really bad, but I must admit the overall look is not terrible. Not a buy from me, though.
You should read the release date announcement thread, several people say people are mad for wanting this and for being willing to pay full price for it.
That looks really impressive. People who have yet to play it look like they are going to get a good experience if they want to play it on the Switch. Kudos to Saber Interactive. Might double dip as I never finished it on the PS4.
The video by CDPR doesn't mention a variable resolution. At least not when they talk about it in the beginning. But if that is the case then fair enough.
Because it's the only platform some people have to play it.
But i agree that the main draw here is portability and the sacrifices are justified.
A lot of people are incapable of understanding that not only do different people have different values when it comes to entertainment but that their values are not necessarily any more correct than those of others.
Part of it is probably the fact that the differences are marginal, while running on hardware 1/5th as capable.
Witcher 3 was technically dynamic 1080p on Xbox One, but it barely ever hit that. The game will probably spend the majority of time below 720p docked.
This is where I land, watching the video (good job as usual by DF btw!). It's an impressive and ambitious port but the end result suffers from the port. It's quite soft and the framerate isn't that great.
Now granted, I have only played TW3 on a high-end gaming PC so my idea of how the game should look is perhaps different, but the overall image quality seems compromised. I still applaud CDPR for doing this and bringing what is IMO the generation's best game to a fresh audience of players.
Maybe he just wasn't being specific,3.25 to 3.50 is not a huge difference, no reason to assumethey are using a secret mode just yet.
Most port comments have nothing to do with what people own and everything to do with the fact a 5w handheld is running a game that you usually need 20-60x more the power and much beefier cpus and gpus to run.
Derp Derp
I guess.
I've got the PS4 version. It's a marginal downgrade compared to something like Splinter Cell Xbox/PS2 which looked near a gen apart yeah.
Yep, the modern architecture in the Switch really helps it punch above its weight when it comes to raw grunt. People love to downplay its power but these results kinda speak for themselves.
There's plenty of footage out there, performance looks okay overall. The biggest dips look to be in Crookback Bog, while Novigrad actually seems to run pretty well. I'm guessing this is due to the Switch's major issues with alpha effects (low bandwidth).
I probably won't buy it cause I'm not sure to love it (I'm quite burned on open world long ass games, I really didn't like Dragon's dogma), but yeah, this is really a good port job it seems.
DF say it runs quite well, with only the occasional hiccup in handheld mode. We'll have to wait and see for the final version so that they can do a full analysis, but it seems to run well.
Basically in my eyes this is like getting the N64 to run Splinter Cell while looking like the PS2 version. Thats the power difference we're talking about here. Marginal is an apt description.
Yeah I kinda agree with the use of marginal. The comparison segments of the DF video were mindblowing to me. It looks much, much more like a Gamecube/PS2 comparison than a PS3/Wii comparison.
I agree with your assessment. I was expecting worse, and am floored by the actual result.
That's actual Witcher 3 playing on a fucking handheld.
Technologically bonkers. This is super cool; if there were an older Xbox One/PS4 game that I would have pointed at when the Switch was announced that would I never would have seen getting a port to Switch, it would have been Witcher 3. Just incredible.
I've got news for you; this is a "real version" of the game as well.
I've got news for you; this is a "real version" of the game as well.
Gotta disagree. The handheld footage looked pretty rough, performance wise. Not only in Crookback Bog. Like it was never reaching 30, just sticking to the 20's. Performance in docked mode looked more solid, but I'm only in for handheld mode.
As a fake gamer, I'm happy to get this fake version.
So just to sum up, in this week we learned that Nintendo games that sells between 15 to 20 million unities are niche games, we learned that Switch can't handle Ori the way it should and the The Witcher 3 version for the hybrid is a fake version.
OK.
Noted.
So just to sum up, in this week we learned that Nintendo games that sells between 15 to 20 million unities are niche games, we learned that Switch can't handle Ori the way it should and the The Witcher 3 version for the hybrid is a fake version.
OK.
Noted.
Well that's what I mean by okay. Around 30 generally but not all that stable. It was probably around the high 20s when it dipped except for what I saw in the Bog, which looked a bit lower on average.
Even though this game has now 3 known fake versions, (5 if you count the Pro and X enhancements) there is also a 6th fake version on PC if you played it with an AMD card without Nvidia gameworks effects turned on.
That looks promising... nha... very promising :)
It will be my dream game for commute... if i don't miss my stops too often.
I am very surprised they managed to bring back ambient occlusion even in portable mode... i was convinced it would be a goner for sure.
With a little luck the indoors wind will be tamed thanks to cpu resource management for physics ;)
It will be my dream game for commute... if i don't miss my stops too often.
I am very surprised they managed to bring back ambient occlusion even in portable mode... i was convinced it would be a goner for sure.
With a little luck the indoors wind will be tamed thanks to cpu resource management for physics ;)