Witcher 3 revealed for the Switch!

[HoloDust]

routsounmanman said:

HoloDust said:

Unfortunatelly, it is indeed run-of-the-mill downport, there's nothing in it that even suggests anything other than scalling back almost everything possible, just like in other previously lauded ports. As I previously said few times, fiddling with ini files alone (which I've done quite a bit) will gave you fairly good idea what you can do with TW3 to make it run on low specs.

As for art - they already have all the art, eveything is set in place in that world...all they would need to do is reshape it to something like in those reworked screenshots or to something different, maybe Borlderlands style, whichever...and in this day and age when mods with better qualitty assets than vanilla versions are popping all over the place for free and in world where you can find quite good artist for more than very reasonable prices, no, I don't think it would be very expensive.

But since they don't need to do it, as shown by success of other muddy and blurry Switch downports, it comes down to better ROI vs something that stands out...and they've made a choice...shitty from perspective of what this port could've been, but sound business choice.

To accomplish such an art style, you have two options:

Either hire artists and graphic designers / 3d modellers to retool the entire game, not to mention accompanying developers to swap and adjust the assets (and believe me, the first group is by far the most expensive to acquire and maintain).

Or apply a heavy post processing effect to simulate the effect. That could be easily done by a small development team, at a huge hardware cost though. Simply put, the Switch could not handle it.

Overall, the port looks solid to me, and it will all depend on the frame rate. If so, I will be (re)playing The Witcher 3 on my Switch, rather than on my 4K/60fps capable PC, thank you (mindboggling to some, I know).

No post processing, that would defeit the purpose of whole premise, which is to simplify art and all around it and thus lighten the load on SoC, while retaining visual crispness.

Expensive? Sure, compared to straight downport, absolutely more expensive. But I happen to know wages for some amazingly talented folks who do art in some...let's call them not AAA (or even AA) countries...so yeah, not that expensive. As I sad, shitty choice from perspective of what that port could've been, but sound business decision.

As for your choice...well, it's your choice after all. CDPR will be happy to sell you another copy on whichever platform.