Because those are stills taken with a camera, and depending on the exposure they can exagerate brightness and saturation of the image.
If it means more people who previously didn't have the opportunity to play will now be able to play it, then things have to go very wrong to make it someone they 'should' not do. People love to play DOOM and Wolfenstein 2 on the Switch, and DOOM Eternal will have a good userbase on Switch as well imo. People expect Witcher 3 to be a bit worse than those. If the game runs dreadful like ARK before the patch (apparently the after patch situation is better? Footage is lacking, though), then yeah, that's clearly too low a performance to be deemed good enough. However, ARK itself runs way worse the Witcher 3 on other platforms as well, so expecting ARK level of performance/resolution does not make sense.
You know you can just not play the game on Switch right
Alright, that's fine, but I hope you do realise that that is your personal opinion, and not something everyone necessarily feels the same about. I have read plenty of people who found DOOM or Wolfenstein 2 unplayable on Switch, while others found it perfectly okay to play and enjoyed it being available anywhere, for example.
I only play Fortnite very occasionally, but I find that the regular mode runs just fine, keeping the 30FPS all the time, and that it looks really good. (A lot better than the phone versions, which are missing a ton of geometry and effects)
As always.
Pretty much, this. I don't expect I'd have near enough time to enjoy the game if I had to be playing on the TV. Besides, people really underestimate how immersive can be playing games in portable mode, in a darkened room, with the excellent screen the Switch has, and headphones.
If I wanted to play the Witcher 3 on a TV I'd done it years ago. The only fact I'm considering playing it now is that I can play it in handheld. And as most handheld gamers, I am used to games not running as good as on more powerful hardware. That's basically the constant compromise we're onboard with.
I have to vehemently disagree here. Yeah the vistas are nice to look at, but beyond the initial wow factor the overworld of W3 hardly matters beyond providing a thematic background to the stories unfolding.
Do you really want to play the card "we have not seen it yet"? With the Witcher 3's vegetation and scope?
I usually play all my games on switch if I have the choice. This remark was made for the Witcher 3 particularly. I am not talking about graphical setbacks, I do not care about those, I am talking about atmosphere and Immersion which are going to be tainted by lesser vegetation etc.
This is one of the things that worked with Zelda too. Lots of protracted pointless traversal, but actually on switch it doesn't feel so bad. Switch is a great platform for open world games.
Well the choice is not playing because I want to play in handheld and playing it handheld with the same compromises as I'm used to. It's just the reality of it.
Oh don't get me wrong, I am getting the game on switch as well. It's just a pity to have people missing the full experience, again IF they have the choice. If not, The Witcher 3 would be always groundbreaking even on a PSX
Yeah I'm one of those people who are willing to have big down grade for the sake of portability most of the times, thought not gonna lie sometimes not only visuals are taking a big hit , but also the quality of gameplay becomes a lot more junky.
That is why, as I sad, I am not talking graphics. We already know foliage and vegetetation are going to receive a big cut ( this was already in the first trailer). I am not concerned with Geralt with less details or houses with less poligons, I am concerned with things that are actually not goinfg to be there. E.G Trees with way less leaves, less bushes, less branches etc...
you're being really obnoxious here mate, people have doing this concern trolling shit about not getting the "true" experience for 2 years now. It's getting tiresome to say the least and it's frankly condenscending to assume people are not smart enough to understand the compromises they'll accept by going with the Switch version.
"dictate". I said in the first post "if you have a choice, please..." I did not dictate anything.
Good thing we have direct captures. Plenty of leaves and branches.
Did I say no leaves and branches will be present? Or did I say less and less detailed? Don't drag me in a petty screenshot war, I can easily bring comparison screenshots, but I am not here to convince people that the game is rubbish on switch, because it is not.
I could tell, that is why I ignored it.
