Virtuous have been flopping in my eyes. Dark Souls and LA Noire were very flawed ports IMO
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RUMOR: Witcher 3 coming to Switch according to French wholesaler
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Virtuous have been flopping in my eyes. Dark Souls and LA Noire were very flawed ports IMO
Never heard of this game before now. Is it supposed to be technically demanding?
It's a ue4 indie game, doesn't compare to Witcher 3.
Edit: No it's not, confused it with another game.
Everything in this sentence is wrong lol
It is an open-world Snowdrop Ubisoft game.
Let's say that this does happen, and CDPR want to invest in it, or give full reign to another studio. (Panic Button or someone else) I would think it would use the Witcher 2 styled engine, which worked on 360.
Then again, i am not an expert on these things either.
Then again, i am not an expert on these things either.
You can't just change the engine of the game. That would basically mean remaking the game from scratching technically (this is what happened for DQXI (although it was 'just' a change of version for Unreal Engine 4), but I doubt any western developer would do that - or any other Japanese developer for that matter).
I realize that, hence the "If they want to invest in it" part.
It is unlikely, but not surprising either. (At least to me)
Only way I see an actual port happening is if they do it for a revision model, and it would have to be exclusive to the revision model.
Starlink certainly is, though. The point is, people will always find some arbitrary and technically unfounded reason to suggest these ports are impossible. On the previous page we have people suggesting a switch port can only be done if the PS4 version is already at 60fps. The goals will continue to move until something like the witcher 3 or Monster Hunter World does come out on switch, and then it'll be a case of "lol who wants to play an inferior version like that anyway." Just like what happened with DOOM.
Yeah this is why people bring up Doom. Not because it is comparable to TW3, but because once upon a time this game was also considered impossible by most people here. Then it was only 60fps linear games.
Now it's people discounting DQXI or ignoring the existence of Starlink (who can blame them with how the game has sold though).
None of these games prove TW3 (or anything else for that matter) can be ported successfully, but they do prove that these arbitrary bounds for what the Switch can do set by people here are constantly wrong.
Wasn't this with an extra mod installed for lower minimum graphics?
I have it on PC also and never finished it due to my life not being adapted to sitting for hours front of a screen on a regular basis. I'd take a gimped pirt any day of the week.
Bollocks. Don't spread nonsense. What do you mean you doubt any Western/Japanese Dev would switch engine versions of the same engine? It happens all the time. We literally just jumped to 4.20 last week in the studio I work for. It took us 2 days, and nothing broke. It was more or less totally seamless. Also no, even if you decide to change your engine entirely, that doesn't mean starting from scratch. In a previous studio I worked for we moved everything from UE3 to UE4, and we'd moved a lot of assets from unity to unreal in that time, too. It's definitely an upheaval, especially late in development, but it happens.
xenoblade 2 is a poorly optimized game because of the limited resources they had.
I once moved an entire project from Unity to UE4 and I was actually stunned at how painless the process was. It took a little time to figure out the best way to replicate the Unity prefabs but once I did it went quite smoothly.
This was just a small hobby project though. I can't imagine doing that with a full game built by a team.
Iron galaxy people have in my view a much stronger track record than PB. They also have the experience of porting Skyrim and gave a true half gen open world game.
PB ports are good, even very good for Wolfenstein, but certainly not miraculous as often claimed and they often make questionable porting choices. Diablo 3, albeit existing also on last gen console, was very very close to the current xbox1 version and quite an impressive port in my opinion. If I was cdpr, I'd go with them for porting Witcher 3.
Good stuff! Oh man I hate unity, everything looks so much better on the unreal side. I think generally we artists hate unity, seems to be the way it goes.
Also since everyone and their mom mention starlink, I very prophetise that the division to release on switch down the line. The snowdrop engine has proven to be very well suited to the switch and ubisoft is gonna capitalize on it. Book it!
Alright, I was going off of comments made by the Dragon Quest developers (and extrapolated that that would make engine transition very difficult):
Gamespot said:
Maybe they simply meant that it took a long time because they were simply waiting for Epic to implement the necessary Switch optimisations? That was also going on at that same time, so maybe I drew the wrong conclusion from their words. I trust that if your team can do it rather effortlessly, then the process as a whole shouldn't be as I made it seem.
Yes but for something like Doom they had to create an entirely new low preset because the low setting on PC was still too much for switch (even after cutting the fps in half to 30), and that was for an engine that was a lot easier to run than CDPR's.
Depending on the scope and type of UE4 project a version update can add a long time to development, yes. And it also depends on what version the original game was built on.
However we've already seen the PS4 version take advantage of the new UE4 update in the NA release so I don't think this quote really implies that it's a completely different game rebuilt from the ground up. Meaning, they likely just waited for the UE4 version they needed to arrive before even starting to port the game to the Switch. You can see they updated the PS4 version to take advantage of the newer UE4 version so it's not really rebuilding the game in that sense.
Seems like it is fake then. I wouldn't be surprised at Gwent or Thronebreaker, but I doubt that The Witcher 3 would look even OK in something like the Switch.
Just checking in here to say this post is BS and you should feel bad.
Only mention I can find is that it can be streamed to NVIDIA Shield.
Where does this keep coming from? The Switch version of Doom has many graphical effects that the lowest settings on PC do not have. Is this purely in reference to resolution? That might be true I guess.
Skittz's point was that they do say that, but that you can't equate the fact that several settings are lower than PC with the notion that the Switch version runs at lower settings globally, since for example anti-aliasing has been turned on for Switch, along with some other things I don't remember off the top of my head, which are in fact disabled when turning PC options down to their lowest settings.
The Witcher 3 with a dynamic resolution of anywhere between 200-720p. I could see it. Hell look at ark, it might be done but it sure as hell isn't going to be pretty.
If it's true, maybe it would be exclusively for the Switch revision that might come out later next year?
This would be my dream situation...I don't see it happening. Pro exclusives I mean...but I'd love it.
The Witcher 3 runs miles better than Ark on other consoles. A port of the Witcher 3 would also run miles better on switch than Ark. And that's assuming a perfect homothety between both ports, not accounting that some port studios are more talented, and that a Witcher port would have more resources allocated than the Ark port.
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DF produces interesting data which are helpful for the discussion, but in no way are they a gospel meant to be used for the sake of argumentation like a peer review article would be for example. And they don't claim to be.
Anyway, I have Doom on my PC and the lowest settings look much worse than the switch version.
If the game somehow came to Switch and ran as well as Xenoblade undocked it would be a miracle achievement. But I highly doubt it's happening regardless and don't know why people are putting stock in a random listing.
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