Snake Pass. Can't even hit 900p on PS4.
That's the interesting bit here. They have been working with NVIDIA to work on the Windows version, which may mean the engine has been stream lined yo allow easier scaling to lower specs as is necessary for pc versions. In that sense, they might have found a way to more easily port to Switch as well. We'll see, I guess.
Why would a downgraded Switch version even need the same capacity?
I don't really understand the desire for remakes of 16-bit era games. Those games still hold up. Just port it and call it a day, the odds you'll eff something up in a remake are too high for the relatively small potential payoff.
Funnily enough even the article you linked refers to it as "speculation".
Instead of thinking of anything as a downport or upport, let's think of the Nintendo Switch as a platform by itself. What does it represent and what do people expect from it? That expectation is certainly significantly higher than 3DS in most cases. So if they were for example thinking of using the 3DS version as a base, they would still face technical hurdles where they had to substantially improve it to make the Switch version appealing.
With a PS4 version running on UE4, it seems unlikely that they are thinking of doing that at all, but it's important not to pigeonhole assumptions and get tunnel vision. Is the most probably Switch version a PS4 downport? Yes. Is that the certain and only option? Definitely not. The less a company says about something, the less we should take our assumptions as fact. If they said more, there would be ways of narrowing down what they could be planning.
I wasn't talking about FFXV in that post but DQXI
I'm of the opinion that it will based on the pocket edition.
