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Virtuos: "We can port any current gen title to the Switch"
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Don't you see how it can be seen as rather rude to make a joke that implies that the team ports games to the system without worrying about quality when in the interview this thread is about they speak indeed about that very concern?
There's a Crysis port coming, actually
And this threads will never bot be hilarious. Now The Witcher 3 isn't that demanding. Oh man, the goalpost moving...
I mean, at this point I don't think it's an entirely unreasonable statement baring a rare exception if you are willing to sacrifice the way other games like Doom/Wolfenstein/The Witcher/etc. have. I think when people, myself included, doubted what games could make it to the Switch it was without considering games being sub 720p, cutting FPS in half, and implementing even more complex downgrades. So I don't think I'm willing to say any game won't run on the Switch - they may make it 360p with 24 FPS and low textures with reduced NPC count and minimized effects, etc. I can't count it out at this point.
Well....why wouldn't you have considered such changes? That's the way ports to lesser/different hardware has been done since videogames began. Take one look at settings in any given PC game and you'll see this happening every day. Hell, look at games running on high end PC hardware, compared to consoles.
I guess I didn't realize it would be such an incredibly sensitive subject for many. Fine.
Holy shit imagine playing Control on a Switch. That thing would be putting out a negative frame rate lol
These posts nail it.
Wasn't the problem with GTAV more of the lack of cartridge space? As for MHW, good luck justifying a Switch port that can't be sold in Japan (PS4 console exclusive in Asian markets).
The DF analysis is mixed. LA Noire was a 720p game on PS3 and 1080p on Switch so that In itself is a huge jump and both targeted 30fps
Because it was so closely tied to PS3 as a exclusive Including the use of cell, the DF guys speculated it wasn't as easy to transition the cpu side things to Switch hence fps hiccups and shorter draw distances.
The port coming so early in the Switches life probably also limited what the devs could dom Witcher 3 proves Switch could handle an even larger open world with a more reasoned team. And Virtuos is certainly much more reasoned now than they were in 2017
No offense, but you don't seem to have played videogames before past gen.
Because even the more famous ports of the 16 era were really cut down from arcade versions (in some cases, awfully so) while keeping the general gameplay and graphical feeling.
If this gen and the Switch porting debacle has proved something is that people's general ignorance and unwillingness to research are outstanding. Downports have existed since the very first consoles, but somehow porting anything to Switch was treated almost as an offense, kind of like "peasants don't have the RIGHT to play OUR games"
Having lived videogames since the NES era, the attitude regarding Switch ports can only be seen like me as idiotic. Even the concept of impossible port is, moreso after having seen Doom running on SNES
But I was told current gen COD games just couldn't run on switch and also it's a bad business decision for Activision.
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I'm not saying it'll be 1080 60fps lol.
I'm just saying you could get it to a playable state.
I think something extremely processor and memory bandwidth intensive like 64 player Battlefield V or Total Warhammer 2 is just not happening. For anything other than that it's a matter of whether the porting costs are worth it.
And with the next generation of consoles on the horizon, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for an XBox One X or PS4 Pro to be in the same price range as a Switch this holiday season. That development could limit publisher interest in porting AAA games to the Switch even further.
And with the next generation of consoles on the horizon, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for an XBox One X or PS4 Pro to be in the same price range as a Switch this holiday season. That development could limit publisher interest in porting AAA games to the Switch even further.
Will be cool to see what's coming up from them next. Most of their stuff has been good so far.
Also. reading what Sabers CEO said yesterday that fans will be surprised what's coming next for Switch.. I think we could very well see some wow moments ahead. Looking forward to it =)
That Minecraft Dungeons runs that poorly, is probably more on how poorly optimized the game is than the hardware.
In no ways should that game run that bad.
Also. reading what Sabers CEO said yesterday that fans will be surprised what's coming next for Switch.. I think we could very well see some wow moments ahead. Looking forward to it =)
That Minecraft Dungeons runs that poorly, is probably more on how poorly optimized the game is than the hardware.
In no ways should that game run that bad.
When the Switch came out I wouldn't have thought there would be an appetite for a significantly reduced game that had already been out for a year, if not several years. Especially when said ports would require a third party studio. Very few people would have thought The Witcher III would come to the Switch for many reasons until it was rumored/announced that it was, and I think it's rewriting history to act as if that opinion was A) unreasonable and B) uncommon.
I read that as 'we'll take on any work people want to give us', which one would expect from a contract studio.
Honestly Nier Automata wouldn't suffer too much from low res port. But I don't know what to make of such a statement. Never heard of these guys, so I think it's a bit irrelevant to speculate.
I'd much rather have ports of previous gen titles so that they run just as well and acceptably as already-available hardware of similar price. I've got another machine to run those current gen games in a much better state. Nintendo should have Virtuous porting classic Wii era games though, that'd be a much more exciting proposal. I do wonder who's behind all these rumoured Mario remaster and the MP Trilogy that's been hinted at for years now.
Virtuos is pretty huge, I think they have like 1500+ employees spread out WW.
They worked on the Switch ports of LA Noire, Starlink, Spyro(?), The Outer Worlds and Final Fantasy X/X-2 and XII.
Pretty much. How it runs, looks and what other compromises have to be made to it are what's important. Killer Instinct proved you can port anything to anything when they made the GB version. It was actually rather phenomenal all things considered, but it was still not really anywhere near parity with the original or even the SNES version. This is a good case, too, because all of the MK1-3 ports for damned near everything... ew.
Like I said earlier, good luck trying to convince Capcom to fund a Switch port that can't be sold in Japan (MHW is a PS4 console exclusive over there).
Iron Galaxy already offered to port MHW but Capcom declined, likely because MHW is console exclusive in Asia so there no point.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have never expected TW3 to be ported to the Switch, I do think it was unreasonable for so many people to think that these games just simply cannot be ported to the Switch because it's some kind of impossible task. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, many people claimed the Switch just simply could not run PS4 ports and that never made sense to me.
Well, this thread definitely feels like all the boys in my high school class making fun of the GameCube because it was purple, but I would just like to reiterate that Virtuos does wonderful work. Aside from the compressed audio in Dark Souls Remastered, their Switch work have been incredibly solid. Starlink is one of the more underrated games on the system, visually speaking.
That's a cool system that he describes, and he very clearly uses the word "adaptations." So I think I'm gonna go ahead and listen to a producer from the studio who did this stuff over Resetera's ~but 240pees~ squad.
That's a cool system that he describes, and he very clearly uses the word "adaptations." So I think I'm gonna go ahead and listen to a producer from the studio who did this stuff over Resetera's ~but 240pees~ squad.
They were too busy discussing how horribly it ran on original Xbox One hardware.
Not gonna lie, I would totally bite on a 16bit retro-style version of RDR2 if it's done right (like the 2D mode on DQ XI)
They should port rdr1 first. I'd love to play that game before the second one
Ah okay! Then I suppose they have some merit hehe. But I suppose it's a pretty cool thing then.
While I mostly agree with the sentiment that not simply because it can technically be ported, it should, going with a word to label a certain kind of fans in a clear way of being derogatory won't help your case. Just look at a post above in this page where someone used the "fanboy" word as a clear way to dismiss any discussion.
Now RDR1 on Switch is something I'd definitely love to see, it has potential to look and run well on it.
Would certainly be interesting to see how they'd manage something with install sizes between 100-200gb like RDR2 for sure.
For real. Cyberpunk is now seen as the impossible one, but watch it suddenly become an unimpressive game when it gets ported over a year later.
The people who said that were probably meaning it in the sense of "would anyone actually want to play a 500p version of this PS4 game running at 27 frames per second".
For a lot of us the answer is hard "no", but clearly there is some market for those kind of ports.
