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Miyamotoo on 01 December 2018
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

 

Call of Duty (series), Grand Theft Auto V (w/online),Resident Evil (main series, RE7), Assassin's Creed series (main series, older AC games), could already work on current Switch, point that some games are not on Switch (at least currently) doesnt mean they are not there because they cant run on Switch.

So Pro model wouldn't improved much regardless AAA 3rd party support for Switch, I highly doubt that most of 3rd parties would want to release game that for instance could be play just small part of Switch install base (counting that those games could be run only on Pro models).

I don't think those games run on Switch as is, the portable performance in the main problem. It needs to have 2-3x the performance to comfortably port those games. 

 

The developer is not going to build something from scratch for Switch, that's too much work. But you have a chip that's 2x-3x better then it becomes much easier and much more feasible to hand over to a "port studio" and let them do it with a small team. 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered for instance could run on Switch, GTAV is PS3/360 game so offcourse they could run on Switch with probably higher resolution, RE7 is less demanding game than Doom and Wolfenstein2 in any case, Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection or other AC remasters could also run on Switch.

Again, point that some game isn't on Switch (at least currently) doesn't meant that game couldnt run on Switch. Actually we had multiply different insiders saying that current one of biggest problem for some biggest 3rd party games coming to Switch is size/cost/availability of Switch carts, and games like GTAV and CoD are heavily hinted examples. So Pro model still wouldnt solved currently one of biggest Switch problems regardles big 3rd party games. I mean there is reason why no one using even 32GB Switch carts (so 16GB is biggest cards that are using).

 

Maybe games like RDR2 or similar would need to make from scratch, every other more-less could be downgraded. Even we talk about 2-3x higher power we again talking about need for downgrade, I highly doubt that most of 3rd parties would want to release game that for instance could be play just small part of Switch install base while huge part of install game couldnt play them (counting that those games could be run only on Pro models).

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 01 December 2018