Sonic Forces running at 30 FPS on Switch as of now

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curl-6 said:

HintHRO said:

HD rumble is a very expensive gimmick. 

Is it? Do you have a source for this?

specialk said:
Mario Galaxy 2 may only run at 480/30, but it is a visually impressive game with a lot going on in it that runs great.

480p/60 ;)

LethalP said:

The Switch is a fantastic handheld, It's going to be must have by the years end, but it remains a 400 GFLOP machince with less peak performance than the PS3

Switch has more performance than the PS3. You wouldn't be seeing Zelda at 900p or FAST RMX at 1080p on the PS3. FLOPS aren't a very useful metric for comparing performance between radically different components and architectures.

The PS3 FLOPS were always especially dificult to use to judge since not one of its theoretical peaks was ever realized in a game by any dev ever.  And the RAM bottleneck was really felt hard towards the end of the 7th gen.

HD Rumble probably cost a good bit to R&D, but the components are apparently the same as what is used in smart phone vibration, so fabrication costs are likely not as high as people think.