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[Sora the Cat]

Lol, has this guy ever tried an actual DS?

 

[jooey]

OP isn't wrong though, this looks just like Feel the Magic XY/XX!

 

[ramparter]

I'd say mre like Wii in HD.

 

[Roufianos]

Someone seems to have forgot what a piece of shit the DS was hardware wise. 3DS too.

 

[Nanashrew]

DS???

DS graphics were more comparable to the PS1. Nothing at all like this.

 

[Tempy]

Completely nonsensical and inaccurate attempt at a DS-look.
Almost like reducing the palette to 4 greyscale colors and calling it Game Boy.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

3DS couldn't even do this, let alone DS.

 

[SuperÑ]

..downport using irfanview...

 

[SporeCrawler]

i doubt that even the vita could handle this

 

[Nillansan]

Looks stylish as fuck.

 

[sinxtanx]

would have to turn off texture filtering to look like DS-style graphics

this is more of an N64 look

 

[2+2=5]

I was expecting a 2d zelda like game but Op obviously doesn't know what a DS is, not even vita could handle that.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Looks great, but more like the PS3 version rather than the DS!

 

[Aressa]

This will never run like this on DS. Maybe N3DS with framerate issues.

 

[FunkyDealer]

Needs to be low-res to be more convincing.

 

[Fujinn]

After removing shadows it could work, Geralt is waaaaaay too detailed though.

 

[dampflokfreund]

I'm convinced you would have never touched a DS if this looks like a DS game to you. Heck, not even the 3DS could pull this off.

Here's Super Mario 64 DS for comparison.

Wow, I didn't remember the DS graphics were that bad. I was blown away by SM64DS back in the day

 

[novabolt]

If a Witcher 3 version ever came out for the 3DS family, it would probably be exclusive to the N3DS and heavily modified so it could run 20fps.

Off topic, I really do like the style.

 

[Thelonelykoopa]

I had to do something similar to get witcher 3 to run on one of laptops except it wasnt as dramatic of change so actually it looks worst than this version.

 

[RagingAvatar]

Um that's not even close.

Nintendo DS could display about 2000 polygons max.
You'd need to 2D billboard a lot of the grass and stuff.

This is far too good for DS and I'm not sure 3DS could do it.

 

[rjc571]

DP

 

[rjc571]

The DS is hard-limited to drawing 2048 polygons in a given frame. The game is probably displaying approximately 1000x that number of polygons in those screens.

 

[Sammy Samusu]

NX port looks great

Jjgukgyb mess

 

[Shahadan]

I almost like it better than the real look :|

 

[Syntsui]

Runescape 2 looks good!

 

[N.Grim]

Even the 3DS can't handle that.

Probably, but you can do more with less polygons

 

[goldenpp72]

This looks more like a decent Vita game than a DS game, while neat, kind of a dumb way to describe it i'd say.

 

[brawly]

Clearly we remember the DS differently.

 

[Solrac]

thats too much for a ds or even for a 3ds

 

[TheKeyPit]

Runescape.

 

[Durante]

Those are too many pixels and too many polygons.

Not by a bit, but by a few orders of magnitude.

 

[bitoriginal]

Definitely too much for a DS.

 

[Aressa]

Definitely too much for a Vita.

Ftfy

Or maybe Guerrilla Cambridge could pull it off.

 

[erpg]

I don't understand how this person can compare those screenshots to a handheld released more than ten years ago.

 

[Drain You]

Probably, but you can do more with less polygons

Is that a legit screen from 3ds or from the emulator? Looks good if it's the former.

 

[gafneo]

I'd rather play it this way. Looks like Virtua Fighter. Let the PC eliteists have their hires textures. DS for life

 

[jroc74]

I agree with others....3DS maybe but no way DS.

 

[MikeDown]

Via Reddit.

whats the point of this? Like what others have pointed out, people clearly misremember the DS or 3DS's capabilities.

 

[CTLance]

Aw, so sad, I honestly believed someone had gone to the effort of downscaling models/reusing LOD meshes.

Instead we get something like WiiU target screens.

I do have to admit that the lower-poly cel shaded look is a nice tweak, though. I think a "Windwitcher" game could end up pretty neat.

 

[Dark_castle]

Wii U version makes more sense.

 

[bomblord1]

At a lower resolution with no shadows I could see it being run on the 3DS.

Not the DS though.

 

[Falchion]

Looks awesome, Witcher 3 confirmed to be coming to a tablet near you this fall.

 

[DoomGaze]

Look at all the fine folks telling us that this couldn't run on the 3DS.

It's really important that we know that they know that.

 

[FarFromAnyGame]

Probably, but you can do more with less polygons

This is not more...

Polygons are not the issue here.

Look at the shadows and lighting.

 

[petethepanda]

A few of those shots make me want a Tearaway-style papercraft Witcher game. It'd be a hell of a look.

 

[RedSwirl]

Just drop the resolution and add a shitload of aliasing to these images and you're much closer to what it would look like on the DS:

Hell even the characters in those shots might have too many polygons for the DS.

 

[Atanascovich]

Looks like my ps4 loading textures

 

[oneida]

Not even close.

 

[Savitar]

Yeah can't see it being possible.

 

[Jamix012]

This is not more...

Polygons are not the issue here.

Look at the shadows and lighting.

If you think any of the pics in the OP look better than this because it doesn't have accurate lighting and shadows, I really don't know what to tell you.