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Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by thefz on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:50AM (#35913235)
> just the culture of a company focussed on creating a curated experience

Core product on core platform struggles to reach playable FPS at launch. A "curated experience" is waaaay different than this.

Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by valenterry on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:42AM (#35913563)
Sorry but I think this is exaggerated. For Zelda BotW there was sometimes a low framerate when playing on second screen with 1080p in a very limited amount of regular game situations - and it was still okay.

I really think Nintendo's games are a curated experience compared to everything else I know and have played with maybe very very few exceptions.

Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by pallas_athena on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:57AM (#35913286)
According to Digital Foundry [0], the game is a perfectly stable 30fps the vast majority of the time

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLlZBwN_-C4

Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by thefz on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:07AM (#35913358)
"30fps the vast majority of the time" in 2023 is just laughable.
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by Maken on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:31AM (#35913505)
The standard in 2023 is "broken at launch" and "sub 30 FPS in latest hardware".
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by Accacin on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:45AM (#35913584)
It's not in my opinion though. I have a Gaming PC and a Switch. My gaming PC has a 6900XT and so I expect to be playing every game at 1440p @ 60FPS at a bear minimum - some games come out and surprisingly have trouble with that.

The Switch is old hardware that was under-powered on release, therefore, I expect that I'm not going to be getting 60FPS.

Basically, it's down to expectations. The Switch is absolutely great at what it does, and I appreciate it for that reason alone. My expectations are greatly different compared to a gaming PC/PS5/etc.

My biggest gripes with Nintendo is the god awful way they handle people using their IP to make YouTube videos, etc.

Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by standing_user on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:35AM (#35914708)
But with your pc you can play at 1080p ultra and have 60+ fps, on the switch you can't
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by thefz on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:31AM (#35915982)
> My gaming PC has a 6900XT and so I expect to be playing every game at 1440p @ 60FPS at a bear minimum - some games come out and surprisingly have trouble with that.

You can't even compare an open market in which small teams have to cope with the myriad of possible configurations, ofthen lacking the technical skills for optimizing their software down to the bit with the supposedly top product of a trillion dollar company writing software for their own devices - and failing to make it decent.

Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by bzzzt on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:54AM (#35913642)
Not when you add "on a complete system costing less than $300" to that sentence.
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by lifeonlars on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:13AM (#35916669)
and "from 2017"