Sigh...that's not how that works, it's not that simple.  Is Yooka Laylee more demanding than Doom?  Does its presence on Switch mean the Doom port is garbage and should be 60fps?  How about Crash, also 30fps on both.

Or Snake pass!  864p 30fps on PS4 and was ready for Switch *at launch* and that's a UE4 game.

... all of these are much less demanding games than Doom that targeted 30fps on PS4 by choice more than anything else.  From every single technical analysis I have seen of DQXI, it's the same story.  If I had a dime every time someone used that flawed logic, I could retire before I'm 30.

The UE engine is generally easy to work with. But Square needs to optimise the Switch version a hell of a lot more than the PS4 version. That will take quite a bit of time it seems. They don't have a code they can just copy paste on Switch. If they had the PS4 version would have ran at 1080p/60fps. I mean they obviously could not optimise the Switch port, but it would look  and run pretty bad if they did just that.

"He mentioned that for those who would consider purchasing the English version, the version of the engine used is different, so he considers it “closer to a remaster than to an update.” Unfortunately implementing those changes on the Japanese version would require a lot of time and is not realistic in terms of costs".

Did you actualy read link that I put? Thats a point, if one version of game is opimaised bad it dont mean same will be for other versions for other platfomrs or even for same platform for difrent market (like case is with PS4 West release) link that I provided proving that Western release will be more remaster compared to Japanese release, because of different engine (updated UE4 engine) and better optimisation, they most likly doing Switch version now on that new engine also.

I read what they changed on the PS4 version and guess what they are not changing either the resolution or the framerate. Otherwise Square would have shouted that of the roofs. Sure they changed the menu's, English voice over, difficulty, dashing and the camera. 

The only reason they used a new engine is because it was cheaper. The PS4 version is probably still not optimised and why would they, it will sell short of 500k in the West anyway. Also the updated engine was probably easier for porting the PS4 version to Steam.

The Switch version will obviously have much better optimisation because it needs to. That's why it will take a lot longer than porting the PS4 version. Hell the Switch might even be build from the ground up. It's also the version that will likely outsell the PS4 version, so obviously there is way more budget for optimisation. Unfortunately that comes with time and that's why Square is delaying this version.

So I truly doubt if Square Enix is going to do much outside of what they announced for the PS4 version. They will make an effort for the Switch. Because they need to and because it's the version that will outsell the PS4 and PC version combined. Besides the term remaster usually doesn't include much.

I dont know, they wouldn't said remaster not simply update without reason, September is still far away.

My point is simple, there is no reason to blame Nintendo in this case, only SE is to blame, beacuse they are doing same thing all time, announcing game too early and then have too many delays.

@Bold People have no idea what the term "demanding" means when it's just an implication of performance metrics and in that case yes, Yooka Laylee is more *demanding* than Doom ... (both run at 1080p but the difference is Yooka Laylee targets a frametime of 33.3ms while Doom targets 16.6ms) 

Now we can talk about optimization or more technically accomplished games but what "demanding" actually means is that it's just hard to run ... 

Your comparison between Crash/Snake Pass (in the case of those games might've actually had a lot of performance headroom left especially in the case of Snake Pass where it rendered 3x more pixels on Pro compared to base hardware) and DQXI is flawed since refresh rate caps obscure the true performance metrics of how demanding each title is ... 

DQXI is probably using every ounce of it's 33.3ms rendering budget available as a AAA title compared low budget indies like Snake Pass or lower standard remakes like Crash ... (literally, DQXI on Pro is 1792p checkerboard so it's rendering slightly less than 2x the pixels compared to base hardware with temporal upscaling to reconstruct the other half of the pixels despite the fact that the GPU is MORE than 2x powerful compared to base hardware)

Even though I usually blame SE too with their thing of announcing games way too early, I'm willing to bet Nintendo is the one to blame on this one. After all, at the time of the announcement they were just phasing out the WiiU and everything seemed bleak for the company, so announcing such a big title for the mysterious successor console was a great way to establish consumer confidence.

This isn't Nintendo'a fault, I don't see why it could. I just think that's pretty annoying to constantly read how unacceptable every company is treating the Switch. Square usually announces games way too early, just look at KH3 and FF 7R. But in the end they are usually pretty good.

Dragon Quest on the Switch will follow that patern. But it will just take a bit longer to get there than earlier anticipated. In the end a delayed game can still be great while an unoptimised game is a worse game in the end. Probably Q1 2019 and than all the critics on this site will love it too death and shame Square for not directly releasing KH3 and FF7R on the Switch.

I have seen very few people seriously ask about FF7R and KH3.  Let's not blwo this completely out of proportion.

And as a friendly reminder, this upcoming PS4 release is just a localization.  The game actually released all the way back in July of 2017.  So if it launches in Q1 2019, thats a long, long gap between releases for a game announced so early.  It's not like they are wrapping up PS4 development now, the development essentially wrapped up the better part of a year ago.  

I think a more correct explanation is outdated hardware instead of outdated UE4