Digital Foundry takes a closer look at Breath of the Wild

[DonFerrari]

Nuvendil said:

DonFerrari said:

Considering we had Skyrim, GTA V on PS360 I see little reason to say Zelda wouldn't be possible on then. And the bigger evidence that it would be possible is that WiiU isn't really stronger than any of them. And certainly no matter the case you would have to make adequations for any platform you release.

And the guy saying it's impossible is the one that must prove his claim, not reversing the burden of proof.

Skyrim doesn't work in your favor.  I played it on console and PC and tinkered with the graphics a lot and the console Skyrim had major compromises.  For one, the grass in all versions of Skyrim is not as dense as Zelda's.  Second, shadows are significantly lower detail and draw distance for them is shorter.  Third, shadows in Skyrim do not cast on grass while Zelda's do.  All textures in Zelda are superior or equal (most look to be superior).  The physics are far better.  LOD in Skyrim on consoles had a massive drop in detail over long distances, looking from Solitude to The Throat of the World and said mountain was astoundinglying basic and low poly.  Zelda, meanwhiletc, retains good detail as far as they eye can see while rendering details Skyrim'so LOD leaves out, like trees which Skyrim stops rendering about halfway acrosso the map.  Oh and Zelda'sworld is larger so there'sthat.  And the lighting and use of effects in Zelda is vastly superior to Skyrim.  

As for GTA V, it suffers from a lot of those same issues except world size to lesser degrees, though it sacrifices performance stability to accomplish higher end visuals.  

The Wii U is about 50% more powerful than the PS3 technically, iirc.  So Zelda,falling just a mild cut above Skyrim and company makes perfect sense.  It could run on the 7th gen with a lot of tweaks, yes, but then so could a lot of PS4 games.  Which we know, since there were many very good looking cross gen games made early on.

Thank you for agreeing with me... I'm not even pointing out that the game would be the same playing on PS360, some aspects would be better and other would be worse as is normal with multiplats. And I put Skyrim and GTA V because those are the general open world games people go to. And considering both are multiplats with several polishing issues we can be certainly say that if they were exclusive like Zelda is they could make then similarly good to Zelda (not equal, similar).

And yes, most games of gen 8 could be ported to gen 7 to some degree or another. And considering Neo and Scorpio rumours that will be show this gen.