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Sharu said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se-NEt1rxBc
WiiU vs Switch comparison. For me it looks and plays the same.

Your video doesn't show intensive parts of the game. Barely any gameplay at all...

The reports say that there are some performance issues in certain situations. Your video doesn't display any of that. As such, it's not a good comparison between both versions. 

That being said, from the videos I've seen, the performance issues of the Wii U version are far from a deal breaker.



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DroidKnight said:

I was not able to secure a preorder for the Switch and I sure as heck don't want spoilers to ruin it for me.  I have no choice but to experience this title on the Wii U.  I will most likely double dip, as I do with some titles as soon as the opportunity arises.  Congrats to ya'll Switch preadopters (lucky ducks), and please don't rub it in.

It has serious frame drops. Wait for the switch. I will get mines on march 20.



Pagan said:
DroidKnight said:

I was not able to secure a preorder for the Switch and I sure as heck don't want spoilers to ruin it for me.  I have no choice but to experience this title on the Wii U.  I will most likely double dip, as I do with some titles as soon as the opportunity arises.  Congrats to ya'll Switch preadopters (lucky ducks), and please don't rub it in.

It has serious frame drops. Wait for the switch. I will get mines on march 20.

I would have to stay off the internet for 3 weeks to avoid spoilers.  A few framerate drops would be worth it to me to avoid an unintentional peek into something that could be discovered by me.  But yea, I'm looking foward to the Switch experience.



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Well, since the latest comparison video I'll also definitetly go with the U version. I see the same amount of framedrops and same visual effects (besides this sun-lense-thingy) in both versions.



village boy learns to jump.

So the Wii U game was leaked yesterday and it drops below 20 fps in most villages, with regular drops to the low 20's in combat.


I think I am just going to have to get a Switch. i I was going to play the game on Wii U, but framerates that low are not acceptable in my opinion.



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Meh, I have waited over 5 years for this fucking game, I'm not buying a $470 new system for it just because the U version has performance dips.

I'm usually a big proponent of framerate stability, and indeed it is very important in games that require lightning fast responses and a high degree of precision; I certainly wouldn't want to play F-Zero GX or Splatoon at 30fps for example.

On the flipside though, I have been able to enjoy many games with less than ideal framerates; Banjo Kazooie, Starfox SNES, Goldeneye Wii, Bioshock Infinite, Sonic Racing Transformed...

If a bit of slowdown means I get to play the game on the console I already own, that's a trade-off I can accept.



curl-6 said:
Meh, I have waited over 5 years for this fucking game, I'm not buying a $470 new system for it just because the U version has performance dips.

I'm usually a big proponent of framerate stability, and indeed it is very important in games that require lightning fast responses and a high degree of precision; I certainly wouldn't want to play F-Zero GX or Splatoon at 30fps for example.

On the flipside though, I have been able to enjoy many games with less than ideal framerates; Banjo Kazooie, Starfox SNES, Goldeneye Wii, Bioshock Infinite, Sonic Racing Transformed...

If a bit of slowdown means I get to play the game on the console I already own, that's a trade-off I can accept.

But that's a trade-off Nintendo usually don't go for...

Twilight Princess ran mostly flawlessly on the GameCube. If there isn't any day one patch and the game runs with such performance hiccups, it would be the first time, as far as I can remember, that one of their major games has that kind of performance issues. It's really unlike them do release a game with this kind of problems.



Hynad said:
curl-6 said:
Meh, I have waited over 5 years for this fucking game, I'm not buying a $470 new system for it just because the U version has performance dips.

I'm usually a big proponent of framerate stability, and indeed it is very important in games that require lightning fast responses and a high degree of precision; I certainly wouldn't want to play F-Zero GX or Splatoon at 30fps for example.

On the flipside though, I have been able to enjoy many games with less than ideal framerates; Banjo Kazooie, Starfox SNES, Goldeneye Wii, Bioshock Infinite, Sonic Racing Transformed...

If a bit of slowdown means I get to play the game on the console I already own, that's a trade-off I can accept.

But that's a trade-off Nintendo usually don't go for...

Twilight Princess ran mostly flawlessly on the GameCube. If there isn't any day one patch and the game runs with such performance hiccups, it would be the first time, as far as I can remember, that one of their major games has that kind of performance issues. It's really unlike them do release a game with this kind of problems.

True, I can't actually think of any Nintendo game in the last three generations that had significant framerates dips. Then again, they haven't made a game that is this ambitious relative to its hardware in a long, long time. The kind of stuff they're attempting, a massive open world full of interactive elements and systems-driven physics, is a lot to ask from the Wii U. To have framerate drops is quite unlike Nintendo, but then so is making a game like this in the first place.



My copy slow shipped so I won't have it until March 9th. Did watch the newest videos comparing the two versions using the current state the game is in (not the old E3 footage) and it looks great on the Wii U.



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Leadified said:
I will be too, don't have that type of money for a Switch right now

Same.