Some people say games like God of War 3 and The Last of us would not be possible on Switch but DOOM Eternal and Witcher 3 are clearly doing much more in terms of game world size and graphics.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Would games like DOOM Eternal, Witcher 3,.. be possible on PS3?
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Dragon Age Inquisition came on PS3, kind of comparable to the witcher 3.
Lots of fps on ps3, so maybe Doom Eternal too.
Probably not with the stability and resolution you'd want, which a more "modern" switch can provide. I guess. e.g. Crysis 2 runs much better on switch vs PS3.
Edit: Also, different devs, different ambitions, different engines. Variables which in practice make a difference.
Lots of fps on ps3, so maybe Doom Eternal too.
Probably not with the stability and resolution you'd want, which a more "modern" switch can provide. I guess. e.g. Crysis 2 runs much better on switch vs PS3.
Edit: Also, different devs, different ambitions, different engines. Variables which in practice make a difference.
Most of these and similar questions can be answered with: "It probably can, but it depends on what consessions you want to make".
That said, while Switch is relatively 'underpowered', it does include modern features regarding graphics rendering and pretty decent IO compared to older consoles; so its not just a case comparing the amount of (T)FLOPS and the like.
Probably, although it might take talent, creativity & a good amount of work to make it happen.
It's not that simple as the PS3 has only 1/8th of the RAM. It's not more powerful in every metric. CPU might be worse too, not sure about that.
Yeah, it's doable, but just requires compromises.
I imagine due to lower RAM the texture quality would be lower and the maps would have a lot more loading screens and would be less detailed and have fewer enemies.
I imagine due to lower RAM the texture quality would be lower and the maps would have a lot more loading screens and would be less detailed and have fewer enemies.
I've seen horrific things happen with ports. Ports that never saw the light of day, ports that eventually came out but were a hellish plane of existence. Anything can eventually, technically, kinda make it. But it's one of them just because you can do it doesn't mean you should kind of thing.
Who says TLOU and GOW3 wouldn't be possible on Switch? I would imagine Switch would do just fine with nearly any gen 7 port, with enough time and budget
The PS3 would be extremely RAM starved for running something like TW3 though, that would take an extreme amount of downgrading
The PS3 would be extremely RAM starved for running something like TW3 though, that would take an extreme amount of downgrading
Lest we forget the PS3 port of Shadow of Mordor...
On my old PC with a Intel dual core processor which I had until the second half of 2015, I couldn't even start DAI - you needed a quadcore processor for that game.. Witcher 3 on the other hand ran at 30 (or higher) fps with settings set to Medium and with some even High (like Texture Quality, Water Quality and such) and at a 1680x1050 resolution - well, atleast till I got to Novigrad but I mean, that's the biggest city in any medieval fantasy RPG game that I have ever played with dozens and dozens of NPCs all around the place
It's theoretically possible, but may require dramatic alterations to level geometry, effects pipelines and other things. And would look and run worse than the Switch versions. When you get back to PS3/360 level hardware you're getting close to the realm where a "port" may more closely resemble a reconstructed alternate version of the same game.
No, not really. Switch undocked still has a clear advantage over the PS3 and X360, typically.
To give you an idea of how well PS3 ports of Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal would possibly run, just check out the DF face-off of Wolfenstein: The New Order.
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It could in theory be possible but the sacrifices to achieve it would be many and severe.
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It could in theory be possible but the sacrifices to achieve it would be many and severe.
Most Switch ports of 7th gen games usually are better in handeld mode too than the original console versions, with more consistent framerates, practically 0 screen tearing, actual 720p and more.
The Ps3 couldn't even run Dragon's Dogma. The Ps3 pretty much struggled with anything that's open world
witcher 3 load times would be so long that gwent could become a dedicated loading screen minigame
There's a lot less RAM to fill up to be fair. On the other hand, gen 7 games usually didn't have mandatory installs so you'd be streaming a lot from disk.
Generally, the most jarring part of going back to those old games is the texture res so I imagine any game with lots of human face close-ups wouldn't port well.
Sure they'd be possible. Anything's possible, it's just a matter of how many corners you want cut.
I mean, the Sega Genesis had a port of Virtua Fighter 2.
I mean, the Sega Genesis had a port of Virtua Fighter 2.
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Pretty sure they could adapt and turn down everything on the GPU side and CPU.
Not so sure about memory constraints... this could be a puzzle impossible to solve.
Not so sure about memory constraints... this could be a puzzle impossible to solve.
... Who are these people?!
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People who say The Last of Us is not possible on switch are just straight up wrong to be honest. Of course it is. The switch is massively more powerful than a PS3.
It most certainly can considering how bad the PS3's ram setup is and the OS using more memory than the 360's
Most Bethesda games run like crap on all platforms, even to this day. Deathloop (which isn't a looker) has major stuttering issues on PS5 which is supposed to be easy to develop for. Some notable exceptions like Wolfenstein that runs beautifully (and I think DOOM too but never played it)
The PS3 was capable of games much better than anything Bethesda put on it - God of War 3, God of War Ascension, TLOU, Uncharted 3, Killzone 2/3, and more
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Sure, just with very low resolution and texture quality. Check the PS3 version of Dragon Age Inquisition for a preview. It's not pretty.
MGS4 looks better than most games released last gen (exaggerating), so yeah, if optimised properly in the CELL. I find it also weird that MGS4 looks better than anything on switch, yet people are saying that Switch is a stronger system? Was it just Kojima engineers or something haha.
MGS4 was a good looking game, for sure, but it also ran at some weird resolution and the framerate would often chug to the low teens.
And yes, the Switch is stronger than the PS3, no contest.
MGS4 looks good and all, but better than anything on Switch? It's not even the best looking PS3 game.
I think outside of graphics (and really recently loading times but that you might be able to futz with) there have been massive diminishing returns in the gaming-tech arms race. Some of these recent remakes really help make that clear. Mass Effect: Legendary (with PS5 patch!) is great, better looking than Mass Effect with some great quality of life improvements but... after like 10 minutes of wow, that planet looks awesome, it's really just the same game. You could make Sekiro but it has the graphics of OG Demon's Souls and... it would largely be Sekiro. I struggle to think of games that are truly impossible on those older hardwares again outside of presentation. It's also quite telling that quite a lot of recent critical GOTY could probably run on decades old hardware (all the 2d and isometric greats of recent years a la Dead Cells or Hades and so on) and lower geometry versions of quite a lot of commercial GOTYs could also do so.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot this is all framed additionally as Switch vs... PS3? Yes, obviously Switch can run PS3-level games. Come on.
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I find it extremely hard to believe the switch could not handle TLoU. Yea you'd have to turn some settings down, but it is a mostly slow moving linear action game. That's not something the switch would have a hard time supporting in a structural/ data streaming sense.
You can do an incredible amount of computing with very little power. It just takes a lot of time, work, and some genius to do so which is why it's a lot easier and cheaper to increase the amount of computing resources available than it is to try to suck every last drop out of your current resources. There are communities out there dedicated to making pretty complex things run on minuscule amounts of computer power. Like getting Doom to run on a pregnancy test or something.
Who said TLoU and GoW 3 couldn't run on Switch?? Wtf lmao. The Switch should be able to run those just fine.
This. 100%. "Easier and cheaper" + good marketing to boot! And also, yeah, back in the day, there plenty of communities getting like Orange Box to run and decently well with custom drivers on trash bag intel integrated graphics chips (and pretty shit CPUs too.)
