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Nuvendil on 30 August 2017
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fatslob-:O 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.  

Just because the older release of the engine ran on the older systems doesn't mean the latest release will ... (And FIFA arguably does take advantage of the current gen systems in comparison to last gen systems which lack physically based rendering and volumetric lighting but I won't deny that game is designed to be more performance oriented. EA takes their engine development just as seriously as a dedicated engine developer like Epic Games would if not maybe even more so since their willing to raise the baseline hardware requirements to achieve a higher technical quality. Would you rather a downgrade in resolution and framerate to get the same graphical features and content instead ?)

As for your last line it depends on what you mean by 'major' ... (Despite both the PS4 and 3DS featuring near identical mechanics, sound, general design and story people still view them as different games since the graphics in both games present the artwork, level design and content very differently.) 

So regardless of the graphics there won't be any major differences to begin with ... (If people reject the idea that Switch can handle FFXV in it's current form which had a relatively good performance profile on PS4@1080p30fps then those very same people should doubly so rule out the idea of Switch handling the PS4 version of DQXI since it has even worse performance in comparison to FFXV since it runs at 900p30fps on PS4.) 

And Snake Pass runs at 864p on PS4 yet still runs on Switch just fine.  Guess that means we'll get 720p Dragon Quest XI and 900p Final Fantasy XV! 

Except that's nonsense because you can't just compare games on different engines in such an incredibly basic way.  Final Fantasy XV is much more technically advanced than Dragon Quest XI.  The Digital Foundry analyses show that.  The resolution choice is anyone's guess but if I were to speculate, it was a prioritization of post processing image quality effects, same thing as with Snake Pass.