Digital Foundry takes on Xenoblade Chronicles 2

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Barkley said:

Miyamotoo said:

Who said they can't optimise game well!? There is difference between something is not done and something cant be done. Again this is just one example, one game that's not optimised well don't proves nothing, again look at Zelda BotW game that looks better and has all those real time effects and physics and runs at 650-720p. I expecting definitely some performance and graphic patch later because it definitely looks like games is not optimised at all for handheld mode.

Evre game will run in portable and docked mode and in portable mode games will run at lower resolution compared to docked mode, like we saw until now.

"Can't" was a bad choice of words, "Didn't" was the better choice. Again if a first-party developers doesn't bother, why would most third party developers?

Zelda BotW was also a nintendo exclusive game that was in development for 6+ years? But the point I'm making isn't discounted by other examples anyway. I'm just saying if all first-party developers can't be bothered or can't get a game to run well in handheld mode, then you shouldn't expect all third-party developers to do it as well. But it was obvious from the get-go the Switch wasn't a device friendly to third-party developers making multi-platform games. The support it's getting currently from western third party's (Doom, Skyrim, Wolfenstein 2) will be dropped quickly.

Allowing docked-only games would perhaps gain a little more western third-party support for a little bit longer as it wouldn't require as much effort.

Not that the support of third-party's is needed for the Switch's success.

I think this game is rushed that’s why it isn’t optimized in handheld mode. I’ll be waiting for a patch for fixing this before I jump on the  ”Switch as handheld is doomed”-train. Btw I didn’t have any problem with BotW or Mario Rabbids in handheld mode. Mario on the other hand didn’t work good in handheld mode because of the difficulty to use motion controlls in that mode, not because of framrate or resolution.