Mr Puggsly said:
Switch demonstrates greater capabilities than 7th gen consoles. Essentially it can better handle new engines, its play last gen content at higher resolutions (mixed performance), but it still feels like a far cry from what 8th gen consoles are doing. In a nut shell, the best looking Switch content resembles last gen but with extra polish. Doom is impressive on Switch, yet nowhere near the standard X1 version in asset quality, effects, resolution, performance, etc. |
I still think Doom on Switch looks more like an 8th gen game than a 7th gen game; textures and image quality are decidedly last gen, but the rendering techniques used (PBR, subsurface scattering, GPU accelerated particles, bokeh depth of field, etc) are more in line with what you'd typically see on PS4/Xbone. As such I'd say it looks current gen, just low end current gen. Similarly, the Xbox One X version still looks current gen, just at the higher end of the polish/settings scale.
