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What makes the Nier Automata port any more miraculous than, say, the The Witcher 3 port? This article has almost no details.
by kevinh 4y ago
What makes the Nier Automata port any more miraculous than, say, the The Witcher 3 port? This article has almost no details.
- fooey 4y agoAfter the lazy dumpster fire atrocious port they did for PC, I guess anything can be a miracle
- knolan 4y agoGraphically Nier is very basic compared to The Witcher 3, scaling the latter to Switch was indeed miraculous. Nier is not remotely surprising — there are probably more polygons in the main character model than the entire map.
- alpaca128 4y agoWitcher 3 doesn't have crazy high requirements especially when you turn down the settings. On Switch it also only renders at 540p resolution, so just a quarter of 1080p. I see no miracle here.
- knolan 4y agoMost games on Switch run sub 720p and don’t manage the seamless open world that the Witcher does. It certainly looks a lot worse than on other systems but it manages to deliver the experience pretty well. It’s hard to find a game other than BOTW that manages something similar and BOTW benefits from its sparse art style.
- alpaca128 4y agoSure, but the game launched on $400 consoles 7 years ago, running fine on harddrives without loading screens. It was optimized for such things from the start. Impressive but I'd say the more noteworthy part is that Nintendo managed to make the platform attractive enough for such ports. They succeeded where Sony's PS Vita failed miserably.
- knolan 4y agoThose are fair points. The Switch has done exceptionally well considering its hardware limitations. Thinking back I remember playing the Witcher 2 and 3 on the same PC and being impressed by how much more performant Red engine was on the latter.
- Waterluvian 4y agoNier is so graphically rough at times that it felt like a rushed indie game. Nevertheless it’s an amazing game and demonstrates what Nintendo lives by: graphics don’t make a game.
- ekianjo 4y agoWitcher 3 on Switch looks awful compared to the PC version, too. I mean you can't expect "miracles" from such a limited device.
- musicale 4y agoI think it's generally remarkable to see a full-ish PS4 game running OK on the Switch. Disappointingly, Final Fantasy XV on the Switch is the mobile demake. Meanwhile there are fairly realistic (if downscaled) ports of Dragon Quest XI, The Witcher 3, and Nier Automata.