PortisheadBiscuit said:
I don't think it's about people being lenient when it comes to Nintendo, they aren't exempt from criticism as history has shown. Nintendo does however consistently churn out meticulously polished software, and for the most part people can overlook less ostentatious hardware if the software delivers. |
I agree at least historically speaking that Nintendo has a reputation of polishing their software. I don't remember back in the days I had Nintendo systems, to have suffered bugs the way we see nowadays in the industry, that part is definitely a plus on Nintendo's balance.
However, the software will go as far as the hardware can take it, and I don't mean bugs as these being present or not have nothing to do with powerful or weak hardware. I'm talking about other issues like effects, HD assets, filters like anti-aliasing filters for example. The more poweful these filters are the heavier they weigh on the GPU. As an example BOTW suffers from aliasing NOT because the devs are lazy and don't want to polish the game but because implementing these filters would weigh on the weak GPU of the Switch and doing so means sacrificing other parts of the game, like frames per second or complexity or depth... Such sacrifice would not have been needed had the hardware been more powerful.
And my hopes are that in the future the next gen systems will be more powerful, at least powerful enough to have such implementations not demanding any graphical sacrifices or as little as possible. It's only my hope, I have no guarantee of that of course, but I'm taking the chance and I'll wait it out. If that's what happens, then I win as I will have some better version of this game in the future with the DLC's probably included and hopefully at a lower price. If this does not happen cause they don't release this game in future hardware or the future hardware's tech gap widens and I decide not to buy it then, as someone else said, it's my loss and I'm fine with it. And that's all there is to it 
