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Nuvendil on 19 December 2016
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Soundwave said:
LuckyTrouble said:

I'll try to avoid restating this too much, but it's worth considering that DQ XI still has upwards of 12 months of development left to stay in the vague 2017 release window. Breath of the Wild is probably just about finalized and should be out in a few months. I would expect the PS4 version of DQ XI to take a pretty drastic step forward visually by the time we're looking at the final build.

That almost never happens (a game's graphics dramatically improving in t-minus 12 months). 

Besides the game is likely not pushing the PS4 very hard for the precise reason that they want to be able to make a Switch port out of it. This isn't Final Fantasy, they are going to have to make the bulk of their money from Japan and Switch is likely going to outsell the PS4 fairly quickly in Japan. 

There's not much motivation to make the game so graphically intense (DQ has never been about graphics anyway) that it can't be run on a Switch. 

More importantly, Dragon Quest never gets the budget that Final Fantasy does because it's not as succesful or consistent a franchise in sales.  It's not going to get bleeding edge graphics.