Nintendo should teach their 3rd party supporters their file compression secrets.

[DonFerrari]

Alkibiádēs said:

Zekkyou said:

In general? Not much, its tech is quite tame for a retail PS4 title (R&C is far more impressive). Relative to the average Nintendo title and in the context of a storage discussion? Its textures are significantly more detailed, its environments are more geometrically complex, and it spends 15 hours rapidly discarding those environments and their assets.

Tropical Freeze is almost twice the size of SMO. Did Nintendo forget to tell Nintendo how to compress? Was everyone off sick and the janitor forced to do it? Or is this discussion perhaps more complex than the "Nintendo good, all others bad" narrative you've attempted to cocoon yourself in?

It should also be noted that saying stuff like "ABC has much better [x asset] than the average Nintendo title" isn't a criticism again said Nintendo title. The PS4 is literally several times stronger than even a docked Switch, and for fairly obvious reasons. Even a shitty developer can quite easily match the average asset quality of a Nintendo title on the PS4, because they have far more wiggle room. Said texture will, however, look worse because that's Nintendo's strength: They make lesser assets look better than most others can. Making something look nicer than it normally should doesn't make the asset file larger though.

When talking about Nintendo we're obviously talking about Nintendo EPD (the cream of the crop). Jeez. They're the compression wizards. Nintendo isn't a singular entity. 

As for Tropical Freeze, that was Retro's first HD game, cut them some slack will ya. 

Ps: Crash Bandicoot isn't geometrically complex in the slightest.

So Nintendo should teach Nintendo? Gotcha. I'm sure you cut slack for others.

Why should anyone believe the complexity comment when you basically disregarded the whole game already??? If I would use the same comment some were using against me "we get that you don't like sony......" you fill the rest.