Pemalite said:curl-6 said:
Outside of Nintendo themselves and maybe Shinen, I doubt any dev knows the Switch hardware inside out as well as Panic Button do at this point. Back in 2017 when they announced Doom 2016, it seemed impossible that a high end AAA PS4/Xbone game could be brought to the Switch in a recognizable and playable state, but they defied expectations and pulled it off. Then came the even more demanding Wolfenstein II and Wolfenstein Youngblood, with Rocket League and Warframe thrown in for good measure. According to PB, when they first applied all their previous Switch optimizations to Doom Eternal, it still ran as poorly as Doom 2016 did without those optimizations. By now they must've squeezed just about every drop of juice form the Tegra X1. Then again who knows, maybe they'll shock us all over again with an even more ambitious port next. |
I think there is still more room to breathe in the Switch's hardware.
When the Switch first launched, games just seemed like WiiU levels of quality for the most part, but as Developers have come to terms with the Maxwell derived GPU, they have been able to do some great stuff.
I still personally think Links Awakening is the most artistically charming game on the console though... With post-processing effects put to fantastic use.
But Doom Eternal is absolutely the technical achievement thus far.
I guess we need to see what Metroid brings or Breath of the Wild 2 from a Nintendo studio, but I am not sure Breath of the Wild 2 will be a significant engine overhaul from the WiiU release sadly, but I hope to be proven wrong. |
That's encouraging to hear; I guess it's usually in the last years of a system that it produces its most impressive games and Switch seem to still have a few more years left in it.
As far as Switch graphics to date I was quite impressed by Luigi's Mansion 3 and Crysis Remastered. Hard for me to pick any specific future ones to watch atm with Nintendo holding their cards so close to their chest. The next games from Next Level and Shinen should be lookers.
