Digital Foundry first look at Skyrim Switch

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DonFerrari said:

curl-6 said:

So far it seems to, yes; performance is reportedly rock solid, portable mode runs at the Switch screen's native resolution, and just going by what I can see in youtube footage, some of the graphical extras of the special edition have been included. So yeah so far it seems a competent port. Of course there's always the possibility that once it comes out, the final version falls apart under close inspection, but so far, so good.

Final version on PS3 and even X360 was very bad on performance, so I wouldn't put the blame on Switch for this game.

Yeah I remember that whole fiasco back in 2011, with a lot of people complaining about the game's poor performance on last gen consoles. You'd think that wouldn't be a problem on Switch though, as it has far more RAM and uses carts rather than discs, thus getting around a lot of the streaming and memory related issues that plagued PS3/360. It all depends on how much effort they put into this version at the end of the day; IIRC, the PS4 Pro version of the game has a worse framerate than the standard PS4/Xbox One version, so hardware power isn't the only factor.