The_Yoda said:
I played a good deal of BO3 on the WiiU. I bought Ghosts and that title burnt me out on the series. I didn't buy another until Vanguard (what a shit title) and that one and all that have come after it peg the fan on my systems. I had a very cool Vader PS4. COD toasted that machine. I replaced it with a used PS4 Pro (the PS5 was still very hard to find in retail). Eventually I got a great deal on a used PS5 and the 4 Pro moved downstairs with the children. I HATE hearing my fans spin to max and stay there while my kids and mostly my brother-in-law play COD most of the evening. They cannot optimize for shit, they give us all a middle finger as their game file sizes baloon, I just think they suck. I appreciated Treyarch for getting us the COD ports on the WiiU, beyond that F' em. This time around with Switch2 to likely to be as gimped for storage as the last 3 Nintendo systems I have zero interest in going out and buying more storage for one game where they could have tried harder to compress and optimize to keep the file sizes down.
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High operating fan speeds doesn't mean a game is not optimized.It means the game is demanding.Games can be optimized, be extremely demanding on the hardware and thus drive up power consumption and thermals which necessitates a higher level of cooling... Aka. Higher fan speed.Call of Duty looking the way it does at 60fps is a testament to many factors, sloppy optimization I wouldn't characterize as one of them.If you are worried about noise, Xbox is the place to be since the Xbox One dropped. The launch Xbox One with it's monolithic VCR design was silent, the oversized fan would spin slowly combined with a large volume of air in the chassis reduced any kind of noise. - You would actually hear the mechanical Hard Drive before you ever heard the fan.Same went for the One S, One X, Series S and Series X.As for Nintendo's next platform, I am okay with limited storage, provided it's expandable/replaceable... I would rather Nintendo invested more heavily into the Ram side of the equation considering it's supposed to be a platform people are using until 2035 potentially.