DigitalFoundry: Skyrim for Switch

[quickrick]

Zekkyou said:

quickrick said:
Actually its closer to the lastgen versions, this is what John from DF had to say. its still a great port IMO.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/1029589/

"Skyrim turned out great, I agree, but it's ultimately just a remaster of a last gen game. The Switch version loses some of the biggest changes too (namely, volumetrics and distant foliage) but still looks great.

Doom suffered a lot more with massive cutbacks and less than half the frame-rate. What concerns me there is that Doom was a 1080p60 game on a standard PS4. What if you have a 1080p30 game that pushes the system even harder? I can't imagine that we'd see something like Assassin's Creed Origins running on Switch - I just don't think it would be possible."

I don't think he's saying it's closer to the last gen version (seems to vary quite a bit, but i'd say it averages around the middle ground), just that the port benefits from the game still effectively being a 7th gen title. That gives them a lot of freedom to adapt or remove the upgraded elements from the special edition as needed.

The second point is something i actually brought up on VGC before we knew much of anything about Doom. I said that if a 1080p/60fps PS4 title was only 720p/30fps on the Switch (ended up being 600p~/20-30fps), it'd bring into question the viability of the PS4 and X1's more technically competitive 30fps titles.

i guess it depends where you look sometimes it closer to lastgen, compared to ps4, sometimes, closer, not counting 900p/solid 30fps.