Digital Foundry takes a closer look at Breath of the Wild

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DonFerrari said:

curl-6 said:

Wii U is stronger than PS3/360. Not by leaps and bounds, not even by much, but it is stronger. It has twice as much RAM and a more modern GPU. To get Breath of the Wild running on PS360, you would have to significantly reduce its memory footprint and likely reduce/simplify some of its effects. Sure, you could get a downgraded version running on PS3/360, but you could get a downgraded version of Uncharted 4 on PS3/360 if you made enough concessions.

It's possible some downgrades would be necessary, but I would bet that if in the hands of SSM or ND they would be able to produce basically the same product with those differences not being very perceptible. And a lot of games were sub 720p on PS360 so it wouldn't look out of place.

Eh, i kind of doubt it. ND in particular are incredibly adept at getting a lot out of a limited pool of resources (both on the tech and art front), but if BotW is pushing the WiiU close to its limits (which i'd say is a reasonable assumption), then exactly replicating BotW on the PS3 and 360 just wouldn't happen. Certainly not in a justifiable about of time, anyway.

Don't get me wrong, i'm pretty underwhelmed by BotW on the tech front (i think i'm just too used to seeing much better), but relative to the WiiU's hardware it's some pretty high-end stuff.