Laura Dale rumor: Assassin's Creed 2017 is coming to the Switch

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vivster said:

bananaking21 said:

it was also on the PS3 and XB1. it was a cross gen title. im not talking about limits graphically, but limits to the size of the world, the number of objects on screen, the dialogue, number of NPC's, complexity of the AI, animations (which are extremely important to AC games). if they want to make sure the same game runs on hardware that is 12 weaker than the PS4. then sacrifices will be made. no way around it. i had hope when the leaks of this game happened, and it said it was influenced by The Witcher 3, but if its coming on switch, then a lot of the things TW3 did right wont be able to be done on this. 

None of the things you mentioned were limited in AC4 and none of the following ACs could claim to be any bigger or complex despite being on much stronger hardware. A mindless open world game like AC is very easily scalable without sacrificing gameplay.

So basically your fears have no basis in reality. If Ubi really does want to inflict suffering on themselves by trying to make it run on the Switch, that's fine. That does not mean the other versions will be gimped in any way.

AC4 was a cross gen title. of course its not going to be bigger and complex. AC Unity had a much bigger and dense world, with a very impressive crowd simulation, and smoother animations. 

 

but my arguement isnt that AC Unity or Syndicate were better than previous AC games. my argument is that a switch version can limit the potential of the new games, and looking at the numbers and math, its a reasonable and factual arguement. running the same game on a .15tf device, is going to be limiting the things that can be done on a 1.8tf or 1.3tf.