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Miyamotoo on 07 December 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
curl-6 said:

Glad to see it's coming to Switch! It's just common sense with a game like this, though sadly common sense is often lacking among AAA publishers.

And yet Spyro Reignited, which is also by Activision, isn't on Switch, so it clearly has nothing to do with the publisher or "common sense". 

It looks great. I recently watched a video that called Crash Team Racing the "best kart racer" ever. It made some interesting points. I might pick this up. 

I am pretty sure biggest reason why Spyro is not on Switch yet is huge size of game thats around 70GB, I mean game has huge additional download even with PS4/XB1 BD discs (something like 20GB), so imagine how huge additional download would be if they using 16GB Switch cart.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 07 December 2018
Miyamotoo said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

And yet Spyro Reignited, which is also by Activision, isn't on Switch, so it clearly has nothing to do with the publisher or "common sense". 

It looks great. I recently watched a video that called Crash Team Racing the "best kart racer" ever. It made some interesting points. I might pick this up. 

I am pretty sure biggest reason why Spyro is not on Switch yet is huge size of game thats around 70GB, I mean game has huge additional download even with PS4/XB1 BD discs (something like 20GB), so imagine how huge additional download would be if they using 16GB Switch cart.

Well that's exactly my point. It has very little to do with publishers just being morons. It has more to do with logical reasons beyond that. 

Although, pretty sure Spyro could easily be cut down to half that, but even then I have a feeling that would not be good enough for Switch fans. Cause it would most likely require a download. 



Miyamotoo on 07 December 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Miyamotoo said:

I am pretty sure biggest reason why Spyro is not on Switch yet is huge size of game thats around 70GB, I mean game has huge additional download even with PS4/XB1 BD discs (something like 20GB), so imagine how huge additional download would be if they using 16GB Switch cart.

Well that's exactly my point. It has very little to do with publishers just being morons. It has more to do with logical reasons beyond that. 

Although, pretty sure Spyro could easily be cut down to half that, but even then I have a feeling that would not be good enough for Switch fans. Cause it would most likely require a download. 

Well yeah, but even if they cut to half of that, we still talking about 20GB+ download with 16GB cart. Saying that, with 32GB cart they could have less than 10GB download, but 32GB carts are still expensive especially for $40 game, but that could be changed during 2019. year.



Miyamotoo on 07 December 2018

Great announcement, this will be very fan game to play, also great to see all platforms getting same date of release, Switch version will be quite popular.



derpysquirtle64 on 07 December 2018
Miyamotoo said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

And yet Spyro Reignited, which is also by Activision, isn't on Switch, so it clearly has nothing to do with the publisher or "common sense". 

It looks great. I recently watched a video that called Crash Team Racing the "best kart racer" ever. It made some interesting points. I might pick this up. 

I am pretty sure biggest reason why Spyro is not on Switch yet is huge size of game thats around 70GB, I mean game has huge additional download even with PS4/XB1 BD discs (something like 20GB), so imagine how huge additional download would be if they using 16GB Switch cart.

It is definitely not the reason why Spyro isn’t on switch yet. The game is around 48GB on XB1 and it only uses 200-300 MB from that disc. They should be fine with 16GB cart if only 200-300MB is used. On the other hand the problem here is that 50GB is really a lot for most of switch owners who don’t have a lot of storage on sd cards. So probably they are figuring out how to put some of game data on cartridge so it would require less storage on as card from additional download. I also hope that they fix frame pacing before releasing the game on switch because there definitely problem with it on XB1. It is noticeable when you play it which is pretty annoying. 



 

d21lewis on 07 December 2018

The.
Best.
Kart.
Racer.
Ever.



yvanjean on 07 December 2018

Nintendo and Microsoft should allow cross play to push sales on their relative consoles.



KLAMarine on 07 December 2018
d21lewis said:
The.
Best.
Kart.
Racer.
Ever.

Double Dash says hello.



curl-6 on 07 December 2018
derpysquirtle64 said:
Miyamotoo said:

I am pretty sure biggest reason why Spyro is not on Switch yet is huge size of game thats around 70GB, I mean game has huge additional download even with PS4/XB1 BD discs (something like 20GB), so imagine how huge additional download would be if they using 16GB Switch cart.

It is definitely not the reason why Spyro isn’t on switch yet. The game is around 48GB on XB1 and it only uses 200-300 MB from that disc. They should be fine with 16GB cart if only 200-300MB is used. On the other hand the problem here is that 50GB is really a lot for most of switch owners who don’t have a lot of storage on sd cards. So probably they are figuring out how to put some of game data on cartridge so it would require less storage on as card from additional download. I also hope that they fix frame pacing before releasing the game on switch because there definitely problem with it on XB1. It is noticeable when you play it which is pretty annoying. 

Compression.

Crash N.Sane Trilogy was 23GB on PS4 but just 5.2GB on Switch, less than a quarter the size while still maintaining acceptable quality.



Dr.Vita on 07 December 2018

It's happening guys! Imo the best Kart Racer that ever existed, so excited to play this masterpiece 100+ hours online!




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