| Airaku said: This one is a big maybe and Bethesda needs to see me on it. My question is to why is it not a launch title and why do we need to wait so long for a game that game out just under 6 years ago by the time of the release of this version. Here's what I'll want to see in the game. - FULL HD Rumble support - New features or something that makes this version UNIQUE - Visuals must be on par or better than the special edition While I'm one of the few who never played Skyrim. I really am not interested in many things with that series. I ended up getting really bored with Oblivion, but I would be willing to try the series once more. I can see the Elder Scrolls game being far more enjoyable on the go than at home based on my experiences of Oblivion. |
Your expectations are completely unrealistic when it comes to visuals. We are expecting the Switch to be about 150 gflops in gpu performance and fairly low bandwidith shared memory. Because its a later architecture with an improved feature set plus tile based rendering we can expect that 150 gflops to punch above its weight compared to older systems using earlier architecture. However lets not forget the Xbox 360 had similar memory bandwidth plus a dedicated 10MB of high speed memory ideal for the frame buffer and its gpu was around 250 gflops, ps3 had about twice the memory bandwidth of Switch because it had 256MB video at 25.6GB/s and about 20GB/s for main memory on top plus superior cpu resources. Wii u has 32MB of 60GB/s very high speed memory which adds to its 12.8GB/s of main memory with gpu architecture inbetween Switch and PS3/360 in age. Just to be able to deliver a game as resource hungry as Skyrim in a portable format is an achievement without expecting miracles beyond that. I'm expecting it to perform at about 360 level perhaps a few things worse and a few things better. The wii u probably wasn't capable of matching ps3/360 for Skyrim because of its low cpu resources which would probably have meant a cutdown inferior version. Just to play Skyrim on a lightweight portable system like Switch is pretty incredible to be honest. I suspect it will give you the absolute minimum runtime of 2.5hrs.
The Switch is about 3x Vita in performance in just about every area which brings it in performance terms about level with ps3/360 but with extra memory and that should be the expected performance level which is still pretty amazing for a portable.
