Wolfenstein II for Nintendo Switch to launch June 29.

[MajorMalfunction]

JRPGfan said:

Barkley said:
The physical version requires a download.

Anyone know how big it is and If we should be outraged or not?

Apparently the PS4/XB1 versions are ~44 GB.
Switch version is ~14 GB (not sure what compression / lower quality textures / sound&picture quality was lost to allow this).

So it depends on what size cartidge they ship it on.
But yeah Most likely they shipped it on a 8GB one and you ll have to download like ~6GB.

Seems like alot of games, are shipping for the Switch, with half the game on the cartidge, and you needing to download the other half.

Cutting texture quality is a matter of simply dropping the largest mipmaps. It's a cheap and simple solution of having too much data to fit on the cart. Cut from 4K x 4K to 1024 x 1024 is a 16 x savings in texture data. It won't look too terrible on the Switch's 720p screen. That said, it's built on id tech 6, which supports virtual texturing like many games do now (it's standard under later DX11 revisions and is standard under DX12/Vulkan/OpenGL 4.3 with an extension (GL_ARB_sparse_texture) so it's more like 128K x 128K to 64K x 64K, because the entire level is textured with a single massive texture.