Digital foundry: ORI devs best 3rd party for Nintendo

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SKMBlake said:

curl-6 said:

This isn't a waste, it's essential, the whole game can't be kept resident in memory the whole time. The alternative would be constantly breaking the game's flow with loading screens.

Or, you know, with some optimization, do it like the Switch version.

And I guess that's what they did with the One S/X version after patching it. But until end of june, a Switch port was "extrêmely hard"

Well they did say in the DF video that even with the optimizations added to Xbox post-launch, the Switch build still ran very poorly at first. The simple fact is it's significantly less powerful hardware and therefore required a lot more nips and tucks.