For fun I googled top 10 developers.... Techspot had Nintendo listed along with ND and From Software. Not only was CD not listed, they didn't get an honourable mention. Prior to Witcher 3 I had never even heard of CD. I still have zero idea when they were considered the best in gaming.

Before Breath of the Wild they were. Back then the troll argument was that Breath of the Wild would likely have problems to reach a metascore of 90 or above because of how high the standards for open world games had been set with The Witcher 3.

I would seriously doubt it, because it's Nintendo we're talking about here. That, and it's one of their flagship titles. I doubt they'd ever let a mainline Zelda out the door in the shape that Cyberpunk was in when it launched.

Even the CDi Zelda's were more stable than Cyberpunk 2077 on launch lol

They still "worked" when you played them.

Yeah CD was unheard of by most people before The Witcher 3 put them on the map. Cyberpunk had huge hype cuz it was by the Witcher 3 studio....but then it was a buggy mess. A studio that has put out one huge great game before putting out a buggy mess has no relation at all to Nintendo's track record with Zelda.

Of course it won't, this is Zelda! Nintendo knows what they are doing

People who claim BOTW runs poorly on Switch forget what open world games perform like on comparable hardware, even PS4/XBO.

30fps with drops below is the norm; even highly acclaimed games like Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 have framerate drops in demanding scenes, and that's on more powerful hardware than the Switch. Both were buggier than BOTW too.

And both those games scored in the 90s and sold tens of millions of copies.

It's been almost 6 years, not 7. And that also means the dev team now has 6 years of Switch development experience.

There is a visual upgrade, it's using far more volumetrics now.

The first game ran at 720P handheld, up to 900P docked, but for a WiiU port... That's actually not that bad.

I would hope/expect another 720P experience at 30fps, with higher visuals, the hardware is old, Nintendo are better at using it now... Rather than just porting an old game and pumping up resolution.

Nintendo's games tend to target higher than 720p in docked mode and I expect TOTK will be no different. Dynamic 900p is most likely.

It's worth noting that in addition to being a Wii U game not designed for the Switch's architecture, BOTW was also ported by an external studio, TOSE.

TOTK being built from the ground up for Switch, being developed in house, and benefitting from many years of experience with the hardware should all work in its favour.