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Soundwave on 21 December 2016
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setsunatenshi said:
Soundwave said:

I think both will be on Switch, but really what is the big deal with Skyrim?

It's a 5 year old game, lol, whoopity doo. 

Japanese developers I think will actually try reasonably on the Switch though, but for obvious reasons ... Switch figures to be the dominant game platform in Japan, so they have no choice but to take it seriously. 

Unlike the DS/3DS as well, Nintendo's never had a portable this close to current generation Japanese games either (even if the specs are underwhelming to some). 

seeing the latest leaked specs from digital foundry just makes me even more skeptic, especially on dark souls. This game does not even reach 60 fps on the PS4, imagine how it would run on such a low powered hardware.

Having said this, From Software is probably my favourite developer nowadays with Bloodborne as my game of the generation so far.

You do realize though that game development is a business right? It's not a country club where developers sit around a table and do whatever they feel like.

If the business suits really want a version of Dark Souls III on Switch ... it's kinda the job of the staff to figure out how to do it. If you work at McDonalds you don't get to not make a Big Mac because you don't feel like it. 

Probably a lot of Japanese publishers (and by that I mean the actual business suits running the show) are intrigued by Switch because they want to make money off its potentially large Japanese userbase. On 3DS, yes, it was so far behind that making versions for that required a large business investment to be built from scratch. 

But Switch, even if it is underpowered .... does open the door to versions of games. I mean you can take a game run it at 960x540 (1/4th the pixels of 1080p), cut down on some effects, lose the anti-aliasing, but it probably still could look OK on a little 6-inch screen. 

Now I mean you're going to have to do some grunt work here to get it run and optimize like crazy, but you're not going to have to build the game up from scratch either (which was the reality on say the Wii vs. PS3/360 or 3DS versus a PS3 or whatever).