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curl-6 on 21 September 2018
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Nuvendil said:
curl-6 said:

God rays were already in XCX, and while XBC2 did add new rendering features, it also had a lot of rough spots; the framerate was never as stable as XCX, and the character models and textures wouldn't have looked out of place on PS3/360. The engine just never quite seemed to sing on Switch the way it did on Wii U.

I don't recall godrays in X but I may just have never noticed.  And character models didn't decrease in polygonal detail much really.  If at all.  And while skin, hair, and eyes feature a simplified approach in textures, clothes are very much the same level as X.  And besides, the character models have never been the hallmarks of Xenoblade's technical achievements; X's also wouldn't look out of place on the PS360.  And any decrease in character model detail  is offset by the general and sharp increase in overall scene detail and the fact that you have 6 of them running around in your party vs 4.  And the baseline texture res overall is higher.   Noticeably so.

Again, got nothing at all, whatsoever, to do with the Switch.  It's the features that were added.  That's where the improvements come from, that's where the rough edges come from, and that's obviously where the performance issues stem from.

They could have left the engine the same and it would have performed the same.  But they chose to push it with new visual features.  It has rough edges but thd game has rough edges because it is a flat out more technically advanced and demanding game than X.

PS3/360 caliber characters and textures are kinda to be expected on Wii U as its barely more capable than those systems hardware wise, but on Switch, where you've got considerably more power to play with, I think it's fair to expect better.