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

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onionberry said:

bananaking21 said:
if this is true, then good bye for a hope that the next assassins creed would be worth a damn. if they want to regain interest in the series, dont limit it by making their next game have to run on a .15 teraflop device. use the power that the PS4 and XB1 consoles have to create an epic world.

Do you know about scalability? Cause that's a very ignorant point of view. You know that you can play a game with different settings on PC for a reason, and that the witcher 3 looks like crap on consoles compared to ultra settings on PC? You can expect the same game on switch with a lower resolution and less detail, but portable.

Scaling and optimization are really, really not Ubisoft's thing. If one platform is severely underpowered, you can be sure that the version on this platform will suffer, or the other versions. Seeing as how they'd never let the more or less surefire money makers suffer, I fear that a Switch release could be downright shameful.

Case in point; I just bought Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Steam winter sale, it runs like sheer, unadultered shit on my monster PC (as in 12-15fps with AA turned on) and looks considerably worse than several titles that I can easily max. Ubisoft are not good at this, not even close, and they have a shoddy history with Nintendo on top of that. Hell; they have a shoddy history overall for the past 5-6 years.