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(rumor) Was Nintendo Treehouse playing the retail/full version of Breath of the Wild?
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OricWindstar
Member
If so, I really hope that's not the file select screen. They need to go full Xenoblade on it.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Yeah I'd imagine it's at least been in a state where you could play through the game start to finish with any side quests, minigames etc already implemented and they've just been tinkering with bug fixes and performance stuff since then.
Just thinking about it gets me pretty stoked!
TheMoon
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metalslimer
Member
It definitely wasn't the E3 build. It might be a month or two older though as they had to get that demo ready to show weeks in advance. There might be a few tweaks but the demo was like very close to the final version.
I'm super bummed the Master Edition doesn't have a gold cart or case.
Starwolf_UK
Member
You mean Majora's Mask 3D (the N64 version being complete in that time would make it short development cycle minuscule). From the USK rating survey date (27.03.2014) the answer is yes considering the February 2015 release (USK require copies of the game to play though).
Also there is speculation about Twilight Princess being held back for the sake of the Wii version so Breath of Wild being held under the same thoughts would be no surprise.
Neoleo2143
Member
Yeah, it's pretty close to retail build. Comparing the area at E3 and this one, there's been tweaks to the Sound Design (sheathing weapons has new sounds for each one), animations (especially the Flurry Rush which looks WAAAAAY better than it did at E3), balancing (Blue Bokoblins use reinforced Boko Clubs rather than Soldier Broadswords), camera transitions are smoother, Link's animations line up correctly now while at E3, Link's footsteps didn't line up properly when running or walking up stairs.
you're prob 3/4 right. they needed this as a launch title. but I'm sure they've been at least touching it up since e3
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Retail? Hell no.
Near finalized code? Surely
The demo on the floor meanwhile looked like it was just the Switch version of the E3 demo. So that was likely a several month old build (at least) unless Nintendo was crazy enough to rebuild a near identical demo.
Near finalized code? Surely
The demo on the floor meanwhile looked like it was just the Switch version of the E3 demo. So that was likely a several month old build (at least) unless Nintendo was crazy enough to rebuild a near identical demo.
Wanted to bring that up as well. Speculation is what it'd be.
Toadthemushroom
Member
No it hasn't, Miyamoto mentioned how Nintendo was having trouble with the physics system (which is probably reflected in the Wii U version's framerate from the E3 build too), and Aonuma publically told attendees of one of the Zelda concerts that the dev team willingly gave up their holidays to finish the game.
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Deleted member 752119
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One would think so being like 6 weeks from launch. They have a lot of copies to produce and I'd imagine proprietary game cards probably take longer to produce in bulk than standard DVD or Bluray discs.
"Feature complete" is definitely not the same as "done" (or close to it in some cases)
Not disagreeing! Just saying that I could see why someone would make the claim.
But still I've got no proof either way, just rampant speculation.
I completely forgot about that one. Wasn't that just to enable online play?
Final build? Doubt it. But the complete game? Yes.
In fact one of the gamexplain guys accidentally saw the full adventure log.
https://youtu.be/n1zaEi6_7Jo?t=2015
In fact one of the gamexplain guys accidentally saw the full adventure log.
https://youtu.be/n1zaEi6_7Jo?t=2015
There were two Zelda demos on the show floor at the Switch event in NY. One was the E3 2016 demo. The other, which the attendants wouldn't let attendees play, showed some new chunks of the game including some stealth and a Guardian monster. An attendant told me that Nintendo didn't want people playing that second demo because it was the entire game.
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Gaiaknight
Member
In the Japanese stream when they did the stage-demo they said they were playing the retail-version(製品版
i caught that while watching the recording of the japanese stream.
QuixoticNeutral
Member
Yes, I'm pretty sure I remember SSB4 3DS (or some other online-enabled 3DS title) receiving a day-one patch on the eShop as a pre-load before the launch of the software itself, purely for online compatibility.
You're telling us this is 6 months old code?
Nintendo used that as a product code because Zelda's not just a triple-A game.
It's so good it requires five whole As.
Yes. Disc production is faster than producing silicon chips.
Eolz
Member
Where is he saying that?
We know TP was delayed because of the Wii version, but they didn't just sit on it, they kept developing the game and adding stuff. They talk about it in an Iwata Asks I think.
chromatic9
Member
Probably. Cleanest launch and all that.
metalslimer
Member
It's really interesting then that the Switch version of Zelda is 900p docked if it is just the E3 demo while Splatoon 2 is 720p
James Scott
Banned
The Jimmy Fallon demo was likely the full game as well.
Dont' see them making a separate demo just to showcase 20 seconds on a talk show.
Dont' see them making a separate demo just to showcase 20 seconds on a talk show.
Skittzo0413
Member
Interesting, I wonder if the final build was 1080p while the E3 build was 900p. That could explain the confusion from the Nintendo rep. I don't suppose you could tell from watching it?
Anyway, the fact that people are having a hard time telling should indicate how little it actually matters.
Splatoon still has ways to go, most likely wanted to target 60fps. There is still time to polish things up.
Nope. Surprisingly the Japanese Experience demo didn't have it either.
He's saying the demo content was the same content shown in E3 2016 for the Wii U not compile/build in June 2016.
Screamapillar
Member
I mean the game comes out in six weeks... It's done. Has been done. Why is this important/ why would this surprise people?
It did not. But the weird thing is that Death Mountain showed more detail. You could see the lava trails running down it which the Wii U E3 demo did not. I think overall there was less fog and some other minor increased details.
Skittzo0413
Member
As others have said, it makes no sense that they'd make a brand new build just to include the same content as the E3 build. It makes far more sense that they simply ported the E3 build to the Switch, as seen by the lack of weather forecast icons.
Not that I think this somehow limits the resolution, but at the very least it appears like it's running that exact same build from 7 months ago.
In the Japanese stream when they did the stage-demo they said they were playing the retail-version(製品版
Do you have a link to this in a video?
From what I can tell it was Ver.12S at the Japanese stage demo (see this timestamp: https://youtu.be/yYnYWgwsJhE?t=4m27s), which is the same version that was on the floor at the public Switch events, as far as I can tell from other videos online.
Meanwhile the version played by Treehouse was Ver 1.0.0, which sounds more like a final retail version number to me.
Yeah that Japanese demo also lacks the Weather Forecast icon, just like the E3 build. So I would be surprised if that was retail version.
No, but it might be something activated later on in the Shiekah Slate.
There are a lot of differences otherwise from the E3 demo, like different sound effects and lighting.
UnemployedVillain
Member
The game's production schedule and the demo are separate things. It's not like them playing a demo means the game isn't done, it just means they're playing a demo
It probably cycles between different art
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
That very well may be the case, but they did say they disabled the weather effects for the E3 build because of the fact that it was causing performance problems at the time. Which would make sense to then remove the Forecast icons since there wouldn't be any weather to forecast. I'd have to run through all the various videos but I don't think any of the recent footage from the Plateau demo had weather in them.