| Nuvendil said: I really would rather not get involved in this argument since a lot of you are acting childish on some level, but he has a point. Nintendo? Strong arming Bethesda Softworks? Please. They couldn't get BethSoft to shake their hand on stage in 2011 when coming off the monster success of the Wii. There's no way in hell they bullied BethSoft into showing a false representation of their game on the Switch,... They wouldn't have to "strong-arm" or "bully" BethSoft to do anything. If they have an agreement that Nintendo is allowed to show a few seconds of Skyrim in that clip... why should BethSoft be against showing a scene which looks good? It is a Win-Win-situation for both companies: Nintendo can show off the Switch and BethSoft can show off Skyrim. And BOTH companies have a backdoor / an excuse for later complaints that the Switch version doesn't look as good as in the trailer:
...especially when you take into account that Bethesda is one of the few companies that has consistently made the point of showing representative gameplay footage of their games. Bethesda ain't much better than the other big developers / publishers. Both Bethesda + id software have a lot of broken promises in their company histories (downgrades, performance problems, bugged software...).
Like it or not, the current Switch teaser proves nothing about the graphical power of that console, neither in handheld mode nor in docking station mode. The game footage was implemented later into the video and they have their "not final, subject to change" backdoor. We'll have to wait and see if the Switch gets a Skyrim that can keep up with the XBO and/or PS4 version. Oh, and Nintendo is also including their own footage in that "don't take these things as announcements" statements and let's face it, we all know that the Nintendo games in that footage are real, they ain't got time to dither about making fake games :P I don't doubt that all the shown Nintendo games will be available on the Switch eventually. But the "they ain't got time for fake games" argument is pretty weak... f.e.: they have taken the time for the Zelda tech demo in 2011 and the "Super Mario 128" tech demo in 2000 and many other concepts or tech demos. |
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