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Digital Foundry: The Witcher 3 on Switch Hands-on – The Most Ambitious Switch Port Ever?
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For a portable game this looks insane. Even after witnessing it, it is still hard to believe they actually managed to achieve this.
This should open a whole new discussion about what is really possible and what is not on Switch.
This should open a whole new discussion about what is really possible and what is not on Switch.
Looks better than I thought it would, especially in handheld.
I think docked would be the way to go if you were gonna play it on Switch though, I'm pretty impressed.
I think docked would be the way to go if you were gonna play it on Switch though, I'm pretty impressed.
They have an interview about the development of the port as well.
Yeah, for what it is, this looks great. Of course, not even close to the PS4, Xbox One, or PC versions, but that was never going to happen.
I would like to tell past myself as I was playing majoras maks on 3ds terrible screen in 2015 that in 5 years, nintendo would get the witcher complete on a portable....
I'm shocked that the Novigrad NPC crowds are roughly the same density as the PS4 version (albeit with reduced draw distance.) Black magic!
This looks insane for a Switch port. Clearly it's a decent amount behind PS4, but the game looks fully intact visually - if clearly downgraded. I also love that they reintroduced a form of ambient occlusion after reading fan feedback.
The only issue are those framerates hitches. If it wasnt for that I would be down to replay this on the go
But yeah comparing this to something like Doom or Wolfenstein shows just how big of an accomplishment it was to pull this off
But yeah comparing this to something like Doom or Wolfenstein shows just how big of an accomplishment it was to pull this off
Having grown up with the Gameboy, the fact that the Switch is getting feature-complete versions of current gen games is still amazing to me.
My younger self would be over the moon. My now older self doesn't have the time to play all these amazing games. 😔
My younger self would be over the moon. My now older self doesn't have the time to play all these amazing games. 😔
Impressive. Just impressive.
Happy Birthday to me. Definitely gonna get physical copy. More devs need to front the bill for bigger cards.
Happy Birthday to me. Definitely gonna get physical copy. More devs need to front the bill for bigger cards.
Yeah - incredible impressive.Mighty impressive to get 540p on a $200 device this big:
Yeah, considering those games had their framerates slashed in half it's absolutely mind boggling that this still manages to look better.
Oh yeah, by a mile. It's visually better looking and it's open world. This is a really impressive port, and without a doubt the most impressive one on Switch ever.
People were saying 30fps PS4/XOne games to Switch are not possible.
People who thought that were wrong all along. and certainly more games could be ported to Switch (like some Japanese games..) if the publishers really wanted.
This is the most impressive Switch port yet.
People who thought that were wrong all along. and certainly more games could be ported to Switch (like some Japanese games..) if the publishers really wanted.
This is the most impressive Switch port yet.
"We had a set of optimisations planned basically for GPU, CPU and memory consumption, to make sure it would fit in the 3.5GB [available RAM]."
I thought that the Switch had 3.25GB available to devs?
Maybe more has been allotted for these ports, reason #43 as to why the OS is so barebones haha
I thought that the Switch had 3.25GB available to devs?
Maybe more has been allotted for these ports, reason #43 as to why the OS is so barebones haha
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I guess if you only play Nintendo systems this is good thing. Great for a portable but ugly compared to the real versions.
Uh, no. I play ps4, xbox one, high end PC, but want to play this game because it's portable. I played 300 hours on a PC. "only playing nintendo systems" has nothing to do with it.
Kudos to CD Project RED and also Saber Interactive. They seem to have done a remarkable job.
All those tweets and forum posts from the press have actually been true (about this being a good port) not that I didn't believe them but at least this ought to shut some of the concern trolls up.
All those tweets and forum posts from the press have actually been true (about this being a good port) not that I didn't believe them but at least this ought to shut some of the concern trolls up.
I think games like this really show the difference in performance between the systems is really overplayed.
You can tell from the interview it was in great measure about properly implementing all the technology, and they don't make a big deal about how it's in a completely different league with respect to the other consoles. Still an impressive achievement, but I think by now people should realize this is the kind of things the Switch was made for in the first place.
You can tell from the interview it was in great measure about properly implementing all the technology, and they don't make a big deal about how it's in a completely different league with respect to the other consoles. Still an impressive achievement, but I think by now people should realize this is the kind of things the Switch was made for in the first place.
WTF is a real version???
The game looks really good for running on a portable system!
Mighty impressive to get 540p on a $200 device this big:
Astounding. The developers deserve tremendous credit for achieving this.
It won't. Those people either want CD Project to defy the laws of physics or not make this game at all (there are people who have literally said the latter).
It's stupid. Graphical downgrades are the inherent tradeoff of getting this demanding game to run on mobile, battery-powered hardware. It's even more impressive when you consider the size of the Switch lite and the model with the new chip that has better battery life.
My PS4 might be dying, but Witcher 3 has some insane stutters on mine. Novigrad seems to drop into the mid teens at times. Yes I bought. It was $12 a few weeks ago and while I wasn't a fan of the controls of Witcher 2 on the 360, more accurately the unresponsive controls, I loved the story and characters. Thankfully Witcher 3 fixed those issues and it has been a very awesome game. Completely worthy of the praise. Strangely Novigrad is the only place I've experienced those drops. The notorious bog runs smooth.
Sometimes ambitious is not the same as good(looking) but pretty impressive port
Then why buy it on Switch at all
Because I can, dammit!
Seriously though, some posters are taking other posters not finding this attractive pretty close to heart. I see few actually arguing that it shouldn't exist though, so the rabid defensiveness is strange (as usual).
It's dynamic 720p docked and dynamic 540p undocked. That means that in docked, the maximum resolution is 720p but it goes lower in especially taxing scenes. In handheld, it is max 540p but goes lower in taxing scenes. Not really conflicting, it's just standard terminology for dynamic resolution.