Digital Foundary: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Switch vs 3DS/Wii U

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curl-6 on 20 April 2017

Barkley said:
It will be a glorious day when Nintendo discovers what Anti-Aliasing is.

Yeah it's annoying that a lot of their games still lack it, good AA is computationally cheap these days and it's a shame to blemish their otherwise superb presentation with jaggies.

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TallSilhouette on 20 April 2017

Barkley said:
It will be a glorious day when Nintendo discovers what Anti-Aliasing is.

Seriously. All I wanted out of the Switch is Wii U caliber graphics with decent image quality. I'm hoping that's not too much to hope for in the future.

Nice port aside from that, though.

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Pemalite on 20 April 2017

Gourmet said:

Barkley said:
It will be a glorious day when Nintendo discovers what Anti-Aliasing is.

That was my biggest problem with Mario Kart 8's visuals, I'd take AA over the bump to 1080p any day.

Please no. Any trained eye can clearly see anti aliasing doesn't look natural and prefers the sight of a edge that is in fact rough in the game code, over a fake blur. The greatest developers like Nintendo and Platinum opt out of it.

Wait. Are you actually serious?

Peh said:

Eh, I rather get a sharper image than a blurry one.

Anti-Aliasing doesn't have to make an image blurry.

Johnw1104 said:

I honestly used to be unsure if AA was a visual improvement or not (as in whether it was more taxing or less taxing to put it on) as, depending on the game, sometimes it would look good and other times it would just look nasty.

I think it seems to look better in games with a lot of motion, so it might be decent for MK8; that said, the game looks gorgeous from what I've seen anyway. Thankfully, even the low end of graphics these days are exceedingly pleasing to the eye.

There are different methods to Anti-Aliasing.

You can render the game at a higher resolution and downsample it. (The best quality method.)
Or you can blurr the entire screen. (The worst quality method.)
Or you can render the edges of Polygons at a higher resolution and down sample it. (Good mix of quality and speed.)
Or you can blur the edges of Polygons and leave the rest of the image. (More complex, better than full-screen blurr.)

And there is more. Some methods will sample the aliased pixels, rotate or offset the pixels to remove the jaggies that way.

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d21lewis on 20 April 2017

I've never been so excited to buy a game I can already play right now. I really can't wait!

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Peh on 21 April 2017

Pemalite said:

Peh said:

Eh, I rather get a sharper image than a blurry one.

Anti-Aliasing doesn't have to make an image blurry.

If the choices are 720p with AA or 1080p without AA for me on a 4K TV, then I go for 1080p, because whatever they apply, the picture will result in a blurry image with washed out lines. Same goes for 1080p TV's.

The image will still have to be upscaled to the larger resolution which will appear blurry.

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Jranation on 21 April 2017

Any people here going to buy MK8D who did not buy it on the Wii U?

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Peh on 21 April 2017

Here are some difference:

4k TV KS8090 with HL2 on screen

Beware, big size pictures:

720p with MSAA 2x

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044376/720p-1.jpg.html

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044351/720p-2.jpg.html

1080p without AA

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044381/1080p-1.jpg.html

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044384/1080p-2.jpg.html

4k with MSAA 4x for fun

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044387/4k-1.jpg.html

https://www.pic-upload.de/view-33044391/4k-2.jpg.html

Pics taken offscreen with Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.

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p0isonparadise on 21 April 2017

Jranation said:
Any people here going to buy MK8D who did not buy it on the Wii U?

I have it preordered from Amazon. Never owned a Wii U, although I was close to getting one when MK8 was first released.

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Jranation on 21 April 2017

p0isonparadise said:

Jranation said:
Any people here going to buy MK8D who did not buy it on the Wii U?

I have it preordered from Amazon. Never owned a Wii U, although I was close to getting one when MK8 was first released.

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curl-6 on 21 April 2017

Peh said:

Pemalite said:

Anti-Aliasing doesn't have to make an image blurry.

If the choices are 720p with AA or 1080p without AA for me on a 4K TV, then I go for 1080p, because whatever they apply, the picture will result in a blurry image with washed out lines. Same goes for 1080p TV's.

The image will still have to be upscaled to the larger resolution which will appear blurry.

It shouldn't have to be a choice between 720p with AA or 1080p without, AA is not that demanding, especially not these days.

Hell, most PS3/360 games had AA so a game on 2017 hardware not having it is kind of lame.

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