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curl-6 on 15 September 2025
Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:

900p/60 is more demanding than 1080p/30, not just in terms of pixels per second, but also cos a lot of other things don't scale with resolution, like draw calls.

It also might simply be that the developers were going for a sense of desolation and emptiness; take for instance this area in Nier Automata, designed for hardware a generation more powerful than Xenoblade Chronicles X; it also doesn't have much going on, because that's not what the designers wanted to convey.

Depends on where the bottleneck is.
If your limited by the CPU and not the GPU for your render time, then 1080P/30 may be lighter on the system.

That is what I'm saying, yeah. 

Vodacixi said:
curl-6 said:

900p/60 is more demanding than 1080p/30, not just in terms of pixels per second, but also cos a lot of other things don't scale with resolution, like draw calls.

It also might simply be that the developers were going for a sense of desolation and emptiness; take for instance this area in Nier Automata, designed for hardware a generation more powerful than Xenoblade Chronicles X; it also doesn't have much going on, because that's not what the designers wanted to convey.

Yeah, but you have to take into consideration that Xenoblade X pushes that resolution WHILE having a bigger world more detailed open areas (that are not separated by loading screens, btw). It's not as simple as "Metroid has better framerate, Metroid's desert pushes the system more".

And I'm happy you brought up Nier Automata, because the desert location looks far more attractive than the Prime 4 one.

Maybe it's not about having more stuff. Maybe it's just about keepint it simple, but good looking. Something Prime 4 doesn't seem to be doing (in this particular location. The rest of the game looks stunning).

On the other hand though, X is using a PS3/360 era lighting and shading model, whereas Prime 4 seems to be utilizing a more modern physically based shading system similar to Prime Remastered.

I really don't think it looks bad by Switch 1 standards:



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curl-6 on 23 October 2025

Two Switch 2 holiday trailers showing boss fights from Prime 4 have dropped



firebush03 on 23 October 2025
curl-6 said:

Two Switch 2 holiday trailers showing boss fights from Prime 4 have dropped

Nintendo saw my thread, I take it. /s

Also… it seems that holiday marketing has begun. Weird to think we’re approaching Switch 2’s second calendar year already!



curl-6 on 04 November 2025

New trailer!



sc94597 on 04 November 2025

Can't believe in a month we'll be playing a new Metroid Prime. Wow!



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curl-6 on 04 November 2025
sc94597 said:

Can't believe in a month we'll be playing a new Metroid Prime. Wow!

Tell me about it, I was 18 when Prime 3 came out and I'm 36 now, spent literally half my life waiting for this lmao



dark_gh0st_b0y on 04 November 2025

always use to have the best graphics possible on each Nintendo console - no more : /

motorcycle looks cool though



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

sc94597 on 04 November 2025
curl-6 said:
sc94597 said:

Can't believe in a month we'll be playing a new Metroid Prime. Wow!

Tell me about it, I was 18 when Prime 3 came out and I'm 36 now, spent literally half my life waiting for this lmao

Yep I was in 7th grade. Remember downloading the Prime 3 channel on Wii and watching it hundreds of times until the game released a few weeks later. Never would have thought it would take nearly twenty years for a new entry in the series, as at the time Metroid and Zelda seemed to be about as popular as each-other (even though TP did outsell Prime 3 considerably, Windwaker and Prime 1 weren't far from each-other sales-wise.) 



Mr.GameCrazy on 04 November 2025
curl-6 said:

New trailer!

I want to play it now!!!



curl-6 on 04 November 2025
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

always use to have the best graphics possible on each Nintendo console - no more : /

motorcycle looks cool though

I mean it does have pretty much the best possible graphics; for Switch 1.

It's a crossgen title, not one built from the ground up for Switch 2.