Mnementh on 03 February 2020
| Dante9 said: People here are acting like shitty ports are just a matter of laziness on the developer side, but it's not. The Switch has a serious hardware limitation, so it's just silly to expect ports to be on par with the other versions, unless the game in question is several years old and even the Switch is ahead of it technically. If there wasn't a price to be paid for portability, everyone would do it. On top of that, the other platforms are based on the same tech to such a degree, that porting between them is practically copy-pasting compared to what it's like to port for the Switch. So it comes down to simple numbers. With the time, expense and effort that they would have to put in to make a Switch port and have it be received with meh, they can be cranking out another safe seller for the other platforms. Just business, nothing personal. |
Usuallythe 'shitty port' complaint is not directed at downgraded graphics. On the contrary, The Witcher 3 got a lot of praise for it's downgrades. It is releasing half a game with mandatory downloads or missing content or something like this, that has nothing to do with the technology of the Switch. Or the pricing, prices for games on Switch often are higher than on other platforms. That is something even Nintendo does with their ports from WiiU. But pricing will not change, as in many cases the Switch version sells the most despite having a higher price point. So publishers will keep the high prices.
