curl-6 said:
You could get Dark Souls 3 running on the PS3 and 360 if you really wanted to. Hell, last gen Treyarch got Modern Warfare 3 running on Wii. It's less a question of power and more a question of whether sales justify conversion costs. |
Treyarch had to build a completely new version, completely from the ground up, for the Wii. Using completely different assets and technology. This was the story with basically every HD "port" to the Wii, with the exception of sidescrollers like Rayman. It was basically a de-make.
Same would be required for Dark Souls 3, or any any game that was built to run exclusively on current gen hardware. The 360, PS3, and Wii U can't just "run" character models and environments using way more polygons, textures, and details than they were ever capable of running. They would require all new models and environments designed to run on them. This is why certain games like Assassin's Creed Unity were not released for Xbox 360 or PS3, which instead received their own Assassins Creed games released at the same time. Because a whole new game would basically need to be built whether it was a port or something else.
So it is very much a question of power as well as cost. If anything, the two go hand in hand: less powerful systems can be more costly to port to because a whole new game needs to be built, with all new assets and changes in design to accommodate a difference in power. More powerful systems that can receive simple ports of another system's games, same assets and everything, are less of an investment. But of course, it's still not always worth the investment even when a direct port is possible, but it at least makes it more likely.
twintail said:
No, it just tells us that games can be ported, but at what cost (or lack thereof) we dont know. THe rumor states they are happy with the current performance, but who knows what that actually means. The Switch just needs to be stronger than X1/ PS3 (thus being stronger than WiiU) to get a port. If something like MGS5 can run on the PS3, DS3 could certainly too if liverties were made. The only reason you didnt see DS3 on PS3 X360 was because it wasnt worth the time for an audience that was largely not buying those sort of games. Switch represents a new platform so there is potential hence a port can be considered ok enough. Anyhow, as I personally maintain (like many others) JAN is when we will know what the device is capable of. But this DS3 rumour is not indicatative of anything outside of what ppl want it to mean. DS3 could be running at 20fps on Switch and From is happy with that? Again, who knows what that actually means. |
MGS5 was a cross gen game from the get go, wasn't it? Probably not a very good comparison to a game designed from the ground up for next gen.
And given how out of their league Wii and Wii U were against their respective competitors, 20 fps for Dark Souls would still mean Switch is the closest Nintendo has been to graphical parity in a decade. But has From ever released a game that just ran at 20 fps throughout?
