KratosEnergyDrink
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Looks surprisingly awesome. Hopefully nov release is real.
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IGN: Skyrim on Switch first hands on gameplay video
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Crayon
Member
Yeah and I think it plays well in 3p. There a button mapped to toggle it and I switch frequently when I play.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
The 3DS and Switch are a generation apart. I'm not sure what/why you are trying to argue here. The 3DS being early 2000 technology in your timeline doesn't matter much to those of us who live in reality, where it came out in 2011 and was followed up by the Switch in 2017.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Generation is a measure of time. Nothing more, nothing less.
Otherwise how many generations passed between SNES and N64?
Toni
Member
200 hours?
I have gotten 600 hours out of it on PC with mods and I still have a lot of unfinished quests and miscellaneous quests.
The replayability of Skyrim can't simply be formulated in words.
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
The GameXplain video looked really good. Portable mode is all i really care about, but I hope it looks nice when I decide to put it up on the big screen every once in a while.
goldenpp72
Member
It would be more genuine to compare the Vita to Switch, but even then Switch stomps the crap out of it, very impressive from Nintendo.
Nintendo built the best handheld they possibly could for a reasonable price.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED MORE IN LIFE
It sucks, though.
Uc3 to UC 4 I would argue is no where near the jump of the above^ Even just resolution is like quadrupled and then on top of that the detail in what is actually being rendered
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Even if you compare it against the Vita it's greater than a gen leap.
It's just like one of the single largest leaps we've seen between generations if you compare it to 3DS.
Insanely powerful kit.
OrbitalBeard
Member
I'm sure people weren't waiting around since 1998 for a portable OoT either, but that doesn't mean it wasn't cool when it happened.
ScientificPizza
Banned
i'm surprisingly excited about this. i could really fall into a deep skyrim hole right about now
I mean, 3DS was underpowered from the get go. I'd love to see some Vita vs Switch screens. No doubt Switch is a jump from that tho.
3DS and Vita aren't as far apart as people think. 3D and putting an image on both screens takes a lot out of the thing, hence the low resolution screens.
back when skyrim first came out i thought how cool it'd be with motion controls. now we're in the age of 4k, mods (which are new-ish to me) and VR i'm kind of like "ehh..." portable is nice but not a seller for me
glad this exists though. may buy it just to dork out over how well it may or may not perform on switch
glad this exists though. may buy it just to dork out over how well it may or may not perform on switch
It certainly does.
Jaded Alyx
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IdreamofHIME
Member
Most impressive thing is how good the load times are, nothing I've seen so far as bad as last gen Skyrim loads..
Especially PS3.
Especially PS3.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Neither have I, but big RPGs are great to have in portable form. I never finish them on stationary consoles, but having hardware that allows me to play them in 30-45 minute bursts whenever/wherever increases the chances I will significantly. My most recent example is Dragon Quest VIII. I played 40 or so hours of the PS2 version and never finished it, but put 90+ hours into the 3DS version and finished pretty much everything including the post game hall of champions fights (or whatever they're called).
Hopefully this does well. I expected Japan to be on board with RPGs, but if the Switch can get some decent WRPGs too, that would nice. I'm totally getting this and Battle Chasers.
Jon Carter
Member
It's not as powerful but it can handle more modern effects. Resident Evil Revelations would not have looked as good on the PS2. Few games really took advantage on the hardware in a way that made it look superior to the PS2 unfortunately.
KojiKnight
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No, the 3ds beats the ps2 in almost every measure except resolution. The dual arm11 processor and dedicated graphics card beats the EE and VUs.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Which all means little when you're viewing it through a poopy 240p screen.
sensui-tomo
Member
If it has mod support like the Xbo but less of them due to memory than I'll buy it day one, I doubt mod support is in though.
lwilliams3
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The 3DS and PSVita wasn't actually a full generation apart. The geometry rendering for the 3DS, for example, was a bit under the range of the GCN (3D rendering used up half of the GPU), while PSVita was still within range of the PS2/GCN/XBox era. Uncharted: Golden Abyss was stated to have over 260000 polygons per frame @ 30fps at, which is 7.8 million polygons/sec. That game also ran at 720 x 408, which is 56% of PSVita's native resolution. In comparison, the GCN was stated to handle 6-12 million polygons/sec. PSVita's modern shaders capabilities and efficient design pushed it to render visuals much closer to the consoles, though.
The Switch, even undocked, is beyond the 7th generation consoles and the Wii U by at least several significant levels, so that is a huge step up even compared to the PSVita.
I'm happy to see how well Skyrim Switch looks. I may have to check it out.
Wow. I didn't know you can play 3rd person. I thought it was always first person.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Glad it runs well!
I recommend this game to my fellow Nintendrones.
I recommend this game to my fellow Nintendrones.
……forgetit
Member
Looking at gameplay it's blowing my mind that a game this big is running on a portable console. I feel like in a lot of ways smartphones were a blessing in disguise for Nintendo. They catapulted mobile processing growth to the point where this is possible.
Dark Cloud
Member
I hope this sells very well. I'm getting it day 1!
PdotMichael
Banned
The big 3d companies entered the mobile sector in the last years and the form factor if the Switch isn't exactly the same as the 3DS or even Vita.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I wouldn't go that far.
They've still eaten into their marketshare in a huge way.
It's made close to console caliber visuals possible in a handheld form though. That is a definite perk, but I'm sure Ninty would prefer to have 150 million 3DS users over a cheaper very powerful chipset.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Digital Foundry hands-on impressions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHb5ElEXYCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHb5ElEXYCA
Very positive. Fair point as well that even PS4 and XBO are only running 30fps. Higher fidelity of course but in portable mode I doubt this will make much odds.
a technical marvel really
IdreamofHIME
Member
DF impressed makes me thirsty.
We don't know Nintendo's November and December dates for Switch releases yet. Nintendo loves to announce everything just 1-2 months in advance now. We don't even know at all what they will release in Q1 2018.
DeuceGamer
Member
It seems all of the impressions have been extremely positive in regards to performance. The Digital Foundry comparison when the game launches will be very interesting.
There are a lot of Switch games releasing in Fall that we don't have dates on yet. Hopefully we get a Direct in the next week or two that gives us details on the schedule for the rest of the year. Tons of games I'm interested in but I need to know the release schedule.
There are a lot of Switch games releasing in Fall that we don't have dates on yet. Hopefully we get a Direct in the next week or two that gives us details on the schedule for the rest of the year. Tons of games I'm interested in but I need to know the release schedule.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I didn't know we had footage of the game since July. I'm curious about the performance and glitches this port will bring.
Well, is still Bethesda, but as DF said, RAM alone will help to alleviate many issued that the 360, and specially the Ps3 had.