lexicality 3 months ago

Great in theory, but only really works for first party games and does mean you occasionally end up with unfortunate situations like Tears of the Kingdom where it runs better on an emulator than the actual hardware.

  • bitwize 3 months ago

    But Mr. Anderson, how can Tears of the Kingdom run better on an emulator... if no emulators for the system can legally exist?

  • tedivm 3 months ago

    I've been playing TOTK over the last month and have had zero issues running it on my switch (OLED edition).

    • Freedom2 3 months ago

      Of course, but that doesn't negate OP's comment that it runs better emulated still.

  • peatmoss 3 months ago

    Ooh, thank you for the reminder to see where the state of emulation is. I played Breath of the Wild on both Switch and on PC under emulation, and the difference was night and day. The stuttering on the Switch distracted quite a bit. My PC played in beautiful 4k.

  • pjmlp 3 months ago

    It works for everyone, provided they have the skills.

    I have stop buying most AAA games, because they are GB of useless gameplay, or remakes from remakes of remasters, that is better invested into sponsoring indies.

pebble 3 months ago

Coming from a modern console, the first hour of Tears of the Kingdom felt painfully sluggish.

  • pjmlp 3 months ago

    One complaint from a catalog of how many games?

    • Hasu 3 months ago

      Tears of the Kingdom is far from the only Switch game with performance issues. Off the top of my head, the newest Pokemon games (and the next newest, to a lesser extent) run like shit on the Switch. I've heard complaints about other games too.

      It was underpowered when it was released in 2016, so it really shouldn't be that surprising.

      • pjmlp 3 months ago

        Again, from how many?

        And if we are going to start counting frame drops as argument against focusing on gameplay instead of triangles per second, there is no safe platform then.

    • smugma 3 months ago

      Why do people by a Switch? Mario (Kart), Zelda, and Pokémon.

      Those three franchises represent a huge percent of sales. 70%?

      • pjmlp 3 months ago

        People that hardly know Nintendo yes.

        People that know Nintendo, buy those and plenty of others.