Star Wars Outlaws wasn’t done with the Switch 2 in mind, so if the Switch 2 has limitations that the target PC spec or PS5 / Xbox series S doesn’t it’s natural performance will suffer.
Or it’s just an excuse for them to use the game key cards instead of a proper cartridge.
Doom 2016 and Eternal weren’t originally made for Switch either but with a bit of elbow grease and the occasional well-placed wall to limit rendering requirements and the team at Panic Button pulled it off.
It depends on why it’s slow. Games are complicated software, and some times compromises made in the base architecture can cause issues when porting to untested hardware.
The transfer speeds of the game cartridge is slower than installing to internal storage or even the new MicroSD Express cards. That’s a Nintendo fuckup but Ubisoft could have taken this into account and either reduce the size of data to stream or mask loading somehow (that’s why I mentioned the doors in Metroid Prime).
If you look at the 3rd party games landscape on S2, it’s clear that publishers don’t want to pay for the full storage on retail cartridges. Ubisoft are just the first to use the Nintendo fuckup as convenient excuse.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
What I wonder is why they don’t copy the game from the cartridge on first load - that’s what they do on PS5 and Xbox Series X because the optical drive is also too slow.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
And that’s why I pointed to Doom 2016 where the porting team placed a wall here and there to reduce the the amount of stuff that needs to be loaded and rendered. There are ways if Ubisoft was willing to but they rather keep the money than to spend it on retail storage.
I was going to mention in another part of this thread about doom 2016 on the switch. The switch has no right to be able to play it, yet it’s fantastically playable.
I get where you’re coming from but Doom 2016 and Eternal is quite a different game and well, Idtech are an absolutely legendary bunch of magicians that’s on another level all together. They had a full compute rasterizer back in 2016.
Or it’s just an excuse for them to use the game key cards instead of a proper cartridge.
Doom 2016 and Eternal weren’t originally made for Switch either but with a bit of elbow grease and the occasional well-placed wall to limit rendering requirements and the team at Panic Button pulled it off.
It depends on why it’s slow. Games are complicated software, and some times compromises made in the base architecture can cause issues when porting to untested hardware.
The transfer speeds of the game cartridge is slower than installing to internal storage or even the new MicroSD Express cards. That’s a Nintendo fuckup but Ubisoft could have taken this into account and either reduce the size of data to stream or mask loading somehow (that’s why I mentioned the doors in Metroid Prime).
If you look at the 3rd party games landscape on S2, it’s clear that publishers don’t want to pay for the full storage on retail cartridges. Ubisoft are just the first to use the Nintendo fuckup as convenient excuse.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
What I wonder is why they don’t copy the game from the cartridge on first load - that’s what they do on PS5 and Xbox Series X because the optical drive is also too slow.
And that’s why I pointed to Doom 2016 where the porting team placed a wall here and there to reduce the the amount of stuff that needs to be loaded and rendered. There are ways if Ubisoft was willing to but they rather keep the money than to spend it on retail storage.
I was going to mention in another part of this thread about doom 2016 on the switch. The switch has no right to be able to play it, yet it’s fantastically playable.
The doom developers are fantastic and the game was built well from the start
I get where you’re coming from but Doom 2016 and Eternal is quite a different game and well, Idtech are an absolutely legendary bunch of magicians that’s on another level all together. They had a full compute rasterizer back in 2016.