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bonzobanana on 11 April 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
routsounmanman said:

In fact it was. It's not just about the visuals. The scope of the world, the AI, the underlying systems and to a degree the graphics were, in fact, pretty advanced for the time (Skyrim).

We can safely assume that ESVI will most probably will not be port-able (ha!) to the Switch.

To be fair Oblivion already done that 5 years earlier than Skyrim, Skyrim was more advanced but nothing mind blowing, Fallout 4 that came out even much later in new generation was even less impresive, so its far from sure that ESVI will be modern, state of art game, and even less that couldnt run on Switch.

Every game could be ported to Switch, all comes to if some devs really wants game to be ported to Switch and how much game would be downgraded.

 

bonzobanana said: 
Fallout 4 is an amazing game which was hugely ambitious in all the stuff you can do and see no reason why it can't come to the Switch with a few compromises. You see PC gamers making the effort to mod it to run on low level hardware. I think 2GB memory and a gpu of about 300 gflops was achieved. It looked poor but the frame rate was 20-30. I properly optimised version designed to run on weaker hardware should be possible.

Fallout is using garbage engine and its poorly optimised game. Porting to Switch would definitely need much better optimisation or maybe even different engine, but it's not impossible in any case.

Can't agree with that. Truly amazing game with so much going on. Hugely ambitious. Complicated engine maybe but garbage certainly not.  Many games have limited options, limited features, almost on rails where you can go and make no attempt to simulate a real world with physics and weather, in fact often have simplistic unrealistic often repeated graphics. Fallout 4 is not one of them and making a such an engine which requires more powerful hardware does not make it garbage.