The Witcher 3 on Switch vs PS4 - The Complete Tech Breakdown DIgital Foundry Videos

[Ganoncrotch]

Chazore said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Aye I know you're on the PCMR (just mean, high end PC btw with this, not anything negative) side of things and it's clear that once you enjoy that side of gaming as your main way to play then the switch appeal goes down, over the next 4 days I'm going to be traveling around 1,300 miles... so for me having the Switch handy on Trains, planes and buses is something which my 2 Ryzen PC's just can't join me on, sure I can enjoy Forza Horizon 4 on ultra/120 when I return but while I travel my PC sits here missing me.... or at least I sit on a plane missing it, I hope it misses me too lol, bastard eats my cash!

I mean, I still play on my Switch, but it's limited to a few Ninty first party titles and a few third parties, with indies sprinkled in. 

Only one I don't mind all that much is Skyrim on the device, because let's be honest, the og game in it's vanilla state wasn't that much of a looker back then and over time it aged rather badly (which is why I mod it to hell on PC to make it more suitable to today's looks), and playing it on Switch, where it hasn't taken all that much of a massive hit, not like say, Witcher 3 and DOOM have.

I'm also perfectly fine with them getting some old ancient games, that haven't played nicely on past and current systems before, onto their own machine. I consider those feats, because of what we tried putting those on before, just not current gen games, the "lookers" if you will, that were noticeably pared back just to be able to run on the device. 

My Switch would be handier to me if it had a far longer battery life, if not up to the level of my phone, which I use on a daily basis (youtube, browsing outside the house, emails, messages etc). I imagine then I'd be using it more often, if it wasn't for the limited charge it has, and I'm not one for absolving that flaw, by buying an external battery bank (especially when you have to be careful on which one to use, which I'd again chalk up to Ninty's fault, not global manufacturers), because it was down to Ninty to solve that issue. 

Also think about it, Skyrim launched on consoles which had around 512MB of total system memory, so the Switch is going to be able to play those games above and beyond what was on the original versions that people go to see simply from a Spec point of view, the Witcher3 was absolutely not designed with something like the Switch in mind, especially not that 2015 Tegra X1 underclocked as it is inside the Switches little shell.