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Forums - Nintendo - Overwatch on Switch ? " is very challenging for us " says Overwatch Director

vivster on 15 March 2017
leyendax69 said:
Pemalite said:

Not really. Low-settings, 720P you can run the game on a toaster.

Read the rest of the comments, and I said kinda, not really demanding

Looks like it's not even "kinda demanding".



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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 March 2017

The performance wouldn't be so hot. Once more, if we look at how Zelda u is running on the switch at 900p, overwatch might chug on the switch.



hunter_alien on 15 March 2017
superchunk said:
palou said:
Fun fact: Jeff Kaplan loves BOTW

Fun fact: grumpy cat loves BOTW. I mean who tf could possibly NOT love BOTW.

Jim Sterling? :)) I had to

 

OT: IMO it could work. Overwatch in 720p would be more than playable IMO.



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JRPGfan on 15 March 2017
potato_hamster said:
JRPGfan said:

Overwatch is too demanding for switch isnt it? not GPU wise but CPU wise?

Nevermind, more or less 60 fps always on PS4 at 1080p.

Switch should be able to do a 720p 30fps or so of the game, at the least.

Based on what logic? Because overwatch devs themselves are more or less saying "don't get your hopes up".

My thinking was the switch is like half the CPU power of a PS4, and like 1/3rd the power, when it comes to GPU.

Half FPS (locked at 30) and a resolution thats lowered that much could be possible right?

 

S.T.A.G.E. said:
The performance wouldn't be so hot. Once more, if we look at how Zelda u is running on the switch at 900p, overwatch might chug on the switch.

Yeah docked would be 720p.

Portable would be need to be much lower than that.



S.T.A.G.E. on 15 March 2017
hunter_alien said:
superchunk said:

Fun fact: grumpy cat loves BOTW. I mean who tf could possibly NOT love BOTW.

Jim Sterling? :)) I had to

 

OT: IMO it could work. Overwatch in 720p would be more than playable IMO.

If it was 720p online, I would dread to see the framerate. 



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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 March 2017
JRPGfan said:

 

S.T.A.G.E. said:
The performance wouldn't be so hot. Once more, if we look at how Zelda u is running on the switch at 900p, overwatch might chug on the switch.

Yeah docked would be 720p.

Portable would be need to be much lower than that.

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Third party AAA titles will make the Switch stretch its power beyond reason.



Volterra_90 on 15 March 2017

Oh, I'd sell my OW copy just to buy it on the Switch. A portable OW is almost my dream XD.



Otter on 15 March 2017

I think the FPS is their concern and I don't think they would be happy with 30FPS.

The Switch will likely be different in terms of match sizes etc, I could see them not wanting to compromise any of the things that make it great in its current form. 



S.T.A.G.E. on 15 March 2017
Otter said:

I think the FPS is their concern and I don't think they would be happy with 30FPS.

The Switch will likely be different in terms of match sizes etc, I could see them not wanting to compromise any of the things that make it great in its current form. 

This is why I cannot wait for Splatoon 2. Its optimized for the switch. Never played the first, but heard it was good.



etking on 15 March 2017

It is possible to get every game working but you have to reduce resolution, lighting and shadows, remove effects and shaders, rewrite and simplify all textures and polygon models and hope that the extremely weak CPU of the Switch can handle the background calculations.

It is a shame that nintendo forgot hpow to make real consoles and is always 10 years behind on the technology side. They should stop making hardware and become a Sony first party developer instead.