Overwatch announced for Switch! Launching October 15!

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Pemalite said:

Hiku said:

I imagine it would force the game into 30fps on the other end as well. But now I'm curious to see how they handle this.

Probably not. PC tends to have 240fps-144fps-120fps-60fps-30fps all thrown together.

You do have an advantage with a higher framerate, no doubt... Will be interesting to see how Blizzard handles it.

PC has always been a mixed bag though of hardware and I think people fall into a category where their hardware is in line with their playstyle and desire to get higher ranks etc. When I was playing OW on my Core2Quad which barely managed to reach 60fps with concessions to quality I kinda knew I wasn't going to be powering into diamond, current build can throw out 240@1080p it just makes playing the game so much easier, a clear advantage over lower fps, that's just been a thing in PC gaming since people had the option of a selection of different priced 3d accelerator cards on systems.

For the most part though consoles keep to themselves in terms of controls and hardware, it's only been in this last generation where we see cross play and even without crossplay some people being able to play x1 games at 4k like Halo Guardians but others on the base X1 system can dip as low as 640p in stress points, I should point out btw, fortnite is cross play from Switch with X1 as well, fortnite Switch is 30fps (and unstable in busy area's) where X1 and X1X both run that game at 60fps, the X1X I believe renders it at native 4k as well. So there have been instances where consoles have put players at an advantage for splashing out on more hardware. (or a different platform)