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Nuvendil on 30 August 2017
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Chrizum said:
Nuvendil said:

Except the Frostbite 3 engine originated on weaker hardware than the Switch.  And Fifa is hardly a technical titan.  There's no evidence that Fifa is taking advantage of some special features of the engine that need PSr and Xbone level specs.  And I'm not about to trust the mouth pieces of Electronic Arts.

And I doubt that beyond graphics there will be any major differences between the Switch and PS4 versions of DQXI.  DQXI runs on UE4, natively compatible with Switch.  And it isn't a technical marvel.  

I'm sorry but your point is completely lost on me. FIFA on PS3 and 360 never ran on Frostbite and also didn't have The Journey (which is more of a bonus mode which has received mixed reactions anyway).

It's perfectly understandable why FIFA on Switch doesn't run on Frostbite as well. Considering it looks good and runs 60 fps @ 1080p I fail to see what the big deal is...

Frostbite 3 was first used in Battlefield 4, a PS360 game.  That's my issue, Fifa is just plain not as demanding as that game so they have no excuse for not using Frostbite other than being cheap.  It's plain old dishonesty and that's never ok.  And my point isn't that the Journey is a super important feature objectively, but that its absence is 1) completely unnecessary and 2) going to (and has) brand the Switch version as gimped.  And the fact other features also seem to be limited for no good reason will only make it worse.