TLZ
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Yea I'll be playing it soon on my Wii u and will see how it fairs.
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Gamekult editor on graphical differences between the Zelda Switch/Wii U version
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Yea I'll be playing it soon on my Wii u and will see how it fairs.
Primethius
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Yep, that's pretty much what it feels like to me as well.
Can't believe I fell for the graphical fidelity of the initial reveal.
RiderKairuu
Member
Not really a stickler for performance and buying a Switch isn't an option, so I'll take what I can get.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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IGN gets worse every year.
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
There's a multitude of reasons from the time of day to the quality of the encode to my pictures only being 720p. I only did it as no one else has shown any comparisons. I'm sure someone will do a better job of it
Considering what Nintendo have said I think the differences between the Wii U version and the docked Switch version will be resolution, draw distance and framerate. I think most of the assets will be identical.
dragonfart28
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TLZ
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I believe it was Jose otero who said it.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Can't wait to play on PC. I'll wait
Velcro Fly
Member
lead platform my fucking ass
glad i cancelled my switch preorder now too
glad i cancelled my switch preorder now too
Can't spell 'ignite' without IGN
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
9/10
Slight typo. They meant... dead platform.
TheRealTalker
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okay that is truly unfortunate
note that they first marketed this as a WiiU game
and is the WiiU's first official Zelda (I am sorry a remastered isn't a new game)
I had hoped it would at least not be too bad
who knows maybe the footage will try and convince me other wise
note that they first marketed this as a WiiU game
and is the WiiU's first official Zelda (I am sorry a remastered isn't a new game)
I had hoped it would at least not be too bad
who knows maybe the footage will try and convince me other wise
Starwolf_UK
Member
My guess is Wii Us RGB range not being correctly handled by the capture device which results in it's washed out look.
Switch on the other hand actually has RGB range settings.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Nah, PCs render games at really angular levels that don't jive with Nintendo's smoother, rounder patterns.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
"Lead", as in the console is dead weight - made of lead. It makes sense now!
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
I think the lighting is the same across both versions of the game. In the screen grab I took it looks like the foliage could be more detailed (better shaders) on the Switch version but it could just be the time of day and the way the light is hitting the bushes because of the way the camera is positioned. It's very hard to tell from Youtube videos because of the low bitrate. I mostly done it just for fun as no one had posted comparison shots yet.
Hopefully Digital Foundry have a video comparing both available before launch. If Richard or dark10x need my pro comparison expertise I'm available for the low rate of $1000 per hour!
In handheld mode it really isn't. Even docked mode I don't know that I would say "several." It's like 1.5x Wii U in Portable mode and 2.5-4x Wii U in Docked Mode.
The way Nintendo has managed to shift this public narrative from "We never gave you the console exclusive Zelda game you bought a Wii U for originally" to "Look at how lucky you are that you got this Switch game on Wii U" is impressive. All of the technical wizardry claims for "getting it to run on the Wii U" are icing on the cake. Crankiness aside, I've never considered Zelda games as having great performance anyway so the video differences don't bother me much...I assume I'll get used to the variable framerate after a few minutes and ignore it.
Tarextherex
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Gamekult is basically hyperbolic gaf posts + the sensationalism of Polygon but in french, don't worry about it
Plain wrong, PAL and NTSC OOT would be a better comparison and even then the differences probably wouldn't be as big as that
TLZ
Banned
Looks good. Will happily play this instead of spending a stupid amount of au$550 just to play this game.
wandering goat
Member
Thanks - if the shimmering is in both versions, then I'll probably stick with the Wii U. For the foliage, I wonder if just the resolution bump makes the difference.
Watch the actual footage. The initial post almost compelled me to cancel my Wii U version and reserve the Switch one. Glad I didn't bother.
Besides, with Mario Maker still in heavy rotation, Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta unfinished and Bayonetta 2 still untouched, my Wii U needs another 6 or so months of luv. (Not to mention the fact that I don't feel like rebuying a Pro Controller)
Switch can wait till the Splatoon 2 test fire before i take it out the box.
Besides, with Mario Maker still in heavy rotation, Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta unfinished and Bayonetta 2 still untouched, my Wii U needs another 6 or so months of luv. (Not to mention the fact that I don't feel like rebuying a Pro Controller)
Switch can wait till the Splatoon 2 test fire before i take it out the box.
Vinegar Joe
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Makes me wonder how it would have turned out if they weren't forced to develop it for two platforms instead of one. It must have had some effect, even if they can't admit as much. At the very least we'd have been playing it since 2016 and maybe have some actual gamepad features
Still, it actually looks pretty decent judging from the videos. I'm sure the Switch will have an advantage, but it's hardly a generational gap we're talking here.
Still, it actually looks pretty decent judging from the videos. I'm sure the Switch will have an advantage, but it's hardly a generational gap we're talking here.
I'm only partially joking when I say that it looks comparable to about half of the open world games released on PC over the past couple years running on top tier hardware. Those big frustrum swing framerate drops are pretty common in open world games, though at least on PC the hardware tends to cache the assets to cut down on it over the course of a session.
See I can't tell if you're joking or not...
7DollarHagane
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Do people have to come out of the woodwork to make drivebys like this for every Nintendo thread now?
It's like was already said: ps3/ps4 cross gen games were ugly too.
Somehow there weren't people in every ps4 game thread complaining about how the ps3 versions of advanced warfare, shadow of Mordor, black ops 3, and and mgs5 don't run or look very good.
JB2448
Member
Of course he's joking. Come on, dude.
Yeah he sounds like he's full of shit after seeing leaked Wii U gameplay. The game looks almost the same as Switch minus lower res and the framerate looked only slightly worse than some of the same drops Switch was getting.
RPGCrazied
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Just shocked they couldnt' do any sort of AA for the WII U. Even if it was a simple one. Would help with the jaggies.
Is he, though?
cryptosporidium
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what the fuck nintendo. Wii U version better be better than how this guy paints it
it is
ArkhamFantasy
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AA? lets get the frame rate fixed.
RPGCrazied
Member
Rewatching that video on my TV instead of my PC monitor looks a tad better. Just hope the fps can keep up throughout the game.
TLZ
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Switch portable = 157gf.
Wii u = 176gf.
Switch portable with latest hz increase, if used by devs, is around ~190gf I think.
Have you seen the aliasing in the Switch version? Nintendo just doesn't care too much about decent AA for whatever reason.
Which is which? So the WiiU version has these issues I imagine?
Edit: I see it is, but the OP makes no mention of this.
ArkhamFantasy
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He's talking about the Wii U version.
SinCityAssassin
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The switch heat problem killed both my parents and burned my dog's parents.
the thread title does
e: yeah looking at it it's very unclear