This is not my experience at all. I have noticed some FPS drops when using the 'ultrahand' to move many objects around, but other than that I've been pretty impressed with the performance.

It still blows my mind that I can walk for what seems like hours from one end of the map to the other while the weather and environment changes drastically and not experience any loading screens.

From watching BoTW speedruns (which, I assume is the same engine), the game simply does not do loading screens in the overworld. If you move to quickly, you get to experience an area that is not fully loaded.

Having said that, looking at what it takes for speedrunners to accomplish that, you will likely never see even that in casual gameplay.

Does it? I've been playing quite a bit and the framerate feels steady and I also have not been bothered by the fps even when the game is in fast motion.

And I'm a longtime Melee player so I have eyes used to 60fps and am usually bothered by poor framerate in games.

It’s capped at 30 and regularly drops to 20. Terrible indeed.

It doesn’t affect me gameplay wise, the game is pretty good.

Honestly, it's made me question my hardline 60fps stance.

Generally curious, but how do you (and everyone else) know when the game drops to a certain framerate, and how do you know exactly what framerate it's running at? Are you actually measuring it somehow, or do you just "feel" it?

I don't think it's a huge deal but there is a ton of footage of youtube that does frame-by-frame analysis and "30fps dropping to 20fps" seems very accurate.

Usually the animations look chunkier. Some games lag.

My iPhone pro is a high refresh screen, my TV is 120hz and my gaming rig has a 7900 XTX. Going from that to 30fps is a pretty jarring experience. Obvi it is a small handheld device from 2017 so the expectations need to be set correctly - but doesn't change the experience. Nintendo has always been at the bottom when it comes to graphics though - but that is intentional.

I have literally not noticed. That's damn impressive. I notice like a couple frames of upscaling lag when Melee is on an HDTV.

I only play my Switch handheld, the game runs fine.

Lower refresh rates are less noticeable on smaller screens, although the distance from the screen also has an effect.

IMO it runs fine docked and handheld, some people just really care about the non-game aspects of a game like performance.

It's actually pretty incredible for how well it runs and how good it looks on Switch. Focusing on a few FPS drops like this is really missing the forest for the trees.

it's literally not. a game that runs poorly should never be released.

Astroturfing implies paid actors that mimic a grass roots movement.

Please stop the conspiracy theories and accept that others, a lot of others, like this game.