Comment by pjmlp
Comment by pjmlp 2 days ago
The great thing about how Nintendo approaches games is that it is about game design, not triangles per second.
Comment by pjmlp 2 days ago
The great thing about how Nintendo approaches games is that it is about game design, not triangles per second.
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.
Coming from a modern console, the first hour of Tears of the Kingdom felt painfully sluggish.
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.
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.