Mr Puggsly said:
We all agree Switch is more powerful than 7th gen consoles, its still WAY BELOW the capabilities of X1. In practice I'd say its closer to 7th gen and that was his point as well. We've seen it does a good job improving 7th gen games, we've been reminded Nintendo games are very well optimized, but it really struggles to run a game like Doom at a stable 30 fps, with much lower graphics settings, even at sub-HD. Fifa indeed looks better on Switch. But this is an example of how it does a good job improving 7th gen games. Meanwhile a more technically demanding game like LA Noire has dips, lowered graphics settings, and uses a dynamic resolution. Unless there have been some updates its arguably worse on Switch than PS3. I'm sure Dark Souls on Switch will be a big improvement if its simply better optimized. Lets not pretend Dark Souls was a technical achievement for last gen.
So the Switch being compared to 7th gen is fair. And its also about 11-12 years apart... He also compared 3DS to PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. But we know the 3DS has far less GPU capabilities and even at a much lower resolution. However, its closer to them than PS1/Saturn/N64. |
La Noire is not best example, because like DF mention in article hole game on first place is made to use most of PS3 Cell architecture ("heavy reliance on the machine's unique synergistic processing units - SPUs"), so porting game like that to totally different architecture will not give best results, from same reasons La Noire is only one of few games that works worse on Xbox360 compared to PS3.
But despite that, there again some quite improvements over PS3 version of game, dynamic resolution in docked mode goes from 1920x1080 to 1440x1080 and thats quite difrence in any case compared to just 1280x720 on PS3, Switch version also has better textures, shadows and ambient occlusion than PS3 version. Only things that PS3 version have better are more stable frame rate and better draw distance. So no, Switch version of game dont have worse visuals because it has better, and it's not worse version because it has more improvements over PS3 version.
And basicly this what Pemalite wrote (down), people forgetting this are all Switchs 1st year games, just remember how games looked in first years of PS3/360/XB1/PS4 and how they looked few years later, because by time devs (that goes for 1st party and 3rd party also) are getting more familiar with hardware and they can push much more hardware than they could at beginning.And Switch arledy with 1st year games showed its quite more capable than PS3/360.
Pemalite said:
The Switch is also capable of far more effects than the 7th gen consoles. |
| Mr Puggsly said: Here's a thought. If they aimed for $399 with Switch it could probably be a lot closer to 8th gen consoles in capabilities. Those consoles are from 2013, so they're kind of old now. |
That couldn't be option because stronger hardware would mean bigger heating and shorter life of battery for Switch, Switch is quite capable for what its is, it has portable form factor and its around 3x stronger than PS3/360/WiiU.
Switch GPU is from 2015. so I wouldn't said it's dated, like wrote it's quite capable for what it is.
Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 30 January 2018
