It’s all SE games, and the difference in treatment is so big.
On June 28, Nintendo announced at its Mini Direct meeting that the action game Nier: Automata, produced by Platinum Games and published by Square Enix, will land on the Switch platform on October 6. .
According to the information provided by the official Japanese Twitter of the “Nier” series, “Nier: Automata” on the Switch will run at a rate of 30 frames per second, and the game resolution will be 1280*720 in handheld mode, while in console mode Will be raised to 1920*1080.
Although masterpieces such as “The Witcher 3” and “Doom: Eternal” have previously landed on the Switch, there are still many players on social media who question the frame rate and resolution standards officially provided by “Nier”.
“What it looks like to play Nier: Automata on Switch”
Nier: Automata has been plagued by poor optimization problems, frame drops and stuttering problems go hand in hand.
Taking the PS4 version when the game was first released in 2017 as an example, the standard PS4 console can only run the game at a resolution of 1600*900, and the aliasing phenomenon is quite serious. While the PS4 Pro can support 1080p picture quality, the frame drop problem is more serious than the standard PS4 host.
Frame rate comparison test between PS4 Pro and PS4 console, source Youtube@Digital Foundry
Fortunately, several optimization and quality improvement patches have been officially launched, and the optimization problem will not be greatly alleviated until the last patch in 2021. Just in terms of the relatively weak hardware configuration of the Switch, even if the resolution and frame rate are compressed, it may not be able to perfectly support “Nier: Automata”.
However, while the fans of “Neil” were still worried about the configuration, a group of “Kingdom Hearts” fans publicly expressed their envy, jealousy and hatred on social media.
“Kingdom Hearts” is also a game released by SE, but it did not receive the same treatment as “Nier” ported to the Switch. If the Switch can run Nier in 1080p, it probably won’t be technically difficult to run other SE games.
On February 10 this year, “to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the “Kingdom Hearts” series, SE announced that the following three “Kingdom Hearts” works will be available on the Switch platform: “Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 HD Mixed Edition” and “Kingdom Hearts” 2.8 Final Chapter HD Version” and “Kingdom Hearts 3+Re”
Mind”.
This was supposed to be something that fans of the series would love to see. The problem is that these games choose to be released as cloud games rather than digital or physical versions.
“Cloud Game Collection”
Cloud games are supposed to be a good way to solve some games’ high demand for host hardware, but the configuration requirements of “Kingdom Hearts” are not necessarily more demanding than “Nier: Automata”. The latest work in 2019, “Kingdom Hearts 3”, will be put aside. The first two games were launched on PS2, and Switch will definitely be able to move them.
Cloud games will force players to connect to a good and stable network environment throughout the entire process, which runs counter to the portability design of the Switch handheld mode.
To make matters worse, this cloud game collection itself also comes with a series of technical problems. A bug at launch prevented players from opening the game, and the official had to release a day-one patch to fix it.
Players who have finally entered the game have to struggle with unstable servers. Operational errors caused by network lags and delays from time to time appear in an action role-playing game (ARPG), which inevitably makes people want to smash the handle. .
“Network Congestion”
At that time, fans of “Kingdom Hearts” were appealing, not to spend the $89.99 injustice, to buy a “stop motion animation”. Now that many Japanese RPG games such as “Nier: Automata” have been ported to the Switch at Nintendo’s face-to-face meeting, fans expressed their endless sadness and made a lot of meme pictures, alluding to SE’s bias.
Image source Reddit: u/Guardian_Of_Light2
Twitter @JudeKnight14
Although SE has an eccentric reason. The work “Nier: Automata” has achieved certain commercial success and SE’s resource focus, and Platinum Studio has already had sufficient experience in porting the game to multiple platforms. Now porting the game to the Switch is more like the icing on the cake. In contrast, the “Kingdom Hearts” team lacks similar experience, and the old games in the series released on the PS2 platform more than ten years ago are far more difficult to port than expected.
SE does not speak, and it is difficult for us to judge whether the real Switch port of “Kingdom Hearts” can be launched before the release of “Kingdom Hearts 4”. At present, the performance of the Switch version of “Nier: Automata” is even more interesting. Maybe on October 6th, “Nier” fans who bought the game will sit down with “Kingdom Hearts” fans and complain together. Hair diagram.
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