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A tech overhaul is afoot at Nintendo with Pikmin 4 making the jump to Unreal Engine - doing away with its in-house engine. The results impress: it moves to a dynamic 900p, boosts lighting and material quality and adds a host of post-effects to the experience. All round, the result is one of the Switch's best looking releases.

 

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- Complete graphical overhaul using Unreal Engine, as opposed to Nintendo's in-house tech.
- Pikmin 3 was 720p / 30 FPS with no AA, looked 'superb' for a 2013 release.

- Pikmin 4 is a clear upgrade. Docked: Dynamic 900p, 810p is more common. Portable is dynamic 720p, but averages at 664p in most areas.
- 30 FPS and uses anti aliasing with other Unreal effects like better DoF and Chromatic aberration.
- However, dynamic scaling does not eliminate aliasing, you can see geometry shifting in resolution and DoF also has low resolution aliasing

- Lighting and geometry are a huge upgrade over previous game(s).
- Locked 30 FPS with a single frame drop here and there. Not water-tight but very tight.
- "Surprise visual tour-de-force for the switch"

 

[Woopah]

I wouldn't say they are "doing away" with their internal engine based on one game...

 

[Beer Baelly]

Didnt know this. Looks and plays like their own engine.

 

[Dr.D00p]

I'd make a guess and say they dropped their own engine because it couldn't do materials & lighting to the degree they wanted without a fundamental rewrite

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Wise decision on Nintendo’s part to use a new and better engine.

The implementation on Nintendo devices will only get better when new hardware releases.

 

[acm2000]

if nintendo have sense they will be working with epic on engine optimisations and stuff to make sure their future handhelds are well supported in UE

 

[ADiTAR]

Game is beautiful. however, I do wish they would have swapped to higher-res textures when zoomed in during "cut scenes", because they look so bad and they know in advance when those happen. Strange choice.

 

[Bridges]

The game is absolutely beautiful. I remember thinking the same of Pikmin 3 when it came out, but viewing the side by sides in the video this is an undeniable improvement.

 

[Fake]

What version of UE? Looks pretty decent.

Hope for Batman being native after this.

 

[daclynk]

its Crazy what Nintendo 1st party Studios can do with the Unreal Engine. Can wait to see what they come up with Unreal Engine 5 on their Next Generation system. Its one of the Best looking games on the Switch with Luigi's Mansion 3.

 

[Fake]

its Crazy what Nintendo 1st party Studios can do with the Unreal Engine.

They did terrible in the past LOL.

edit: Looks like Pikmin use Unreal Engine 4.

Pikmin 4 delivers an Unreal improvement over its predecessors

Pikmin 4 is the first new mainline entry in the series for a decade and uses Unreal Engine 4, so how does its graphics …

www.eurogamer.net

 

[daclynk]

They did terrible in the past LOL.

AT Where. i dont remember? is it the Feelgood studio? the Dev that made Yoshi crafted world. Its truly shocking with the result as Yoshi woolly world looked incredible on Wii U.

its interesting that Yoshi and Pikimin are game that swapped in house engine from the Wii U to Switch generation. Maybe MP4 as well does why it taking long.

 

[Fake]

AT Where. i dont remember?

Yoshi mix performance. Zelda bad performance and frame pacing issue.

 

[Codes 208]

Too bad nintendo cant just pull the rug under gamefreak to get pokemon up to snuff like this

 

[Codes 208]

Yoshi mix performance. Zelda bad performance and frame pacing issue.

If youre talking about links awakening, thats only when the game is loading new areas, afterwards it was pretty stable (but that could be jarring at times)

 

[bender]

Aside from the characters, Pikmin 4 is a really beautiful game.

 

[daclynk]

Yoshi mix performance. Zelda bad performance and frame pacing issue.

Yeah i remember but wasnt that game developed me Feel Good Studio. And they are not 1st party developer. Also Links Awakening was not made in UE.

 

[Fake]

Yeah i remember but wasnt that game developed me Feel Good Studio. And they are not 1st party developer. Also Links Awakening was not made in UE.

They are first party IPs mind you. Its up to Nintendo choise whatever they find proper to the job.

And I need to check out Links Awakening because I remember hearing about UE in Digital Foundry video, but now I not so sure.