I just looked at the trailer upload, rather than the stream and yeah, it looks like there is something around the bird head. Upon rewatch I also see some particle fizzle around the little fires in the sequence opening. If there is temporal upscaling here, it's subtle, and low on artifacts, which is great.
Probably got stuck on the pre-production part, wanted to see what new way we can play, and they decided to play it safe, maybe.
I understand why folks might speculate that direction. I don't want to derail the conversation out of the technology topic after Dakhil's stern reminder the other day, but in terms of development time, fan understanding of "how long a game should take" is dictated by "how long games usually take." And games usually have release dates set years in advance, followed up by major crunch.
Yeah, it feels like a reverse Paper Mario situation which is funny to me considering it's Tanabe leading both of those project.
I mean what else they could have done. If Ray tracing is hard or Impossible to do at 60 FPS? Then what's more they could have done on the Switch 2? It seems like it would just be a resolution and framerate increase.
Idk, to me it sounds Ike Tanabe is straight by the books kinda guy. Like he has no creative input and he just follows instructions. Not to say that is always a bad thing.
The steam deck is so huge and has a weird layout, so it baffles me when people say it's comfortable.
I remember watching one of the Kit and Krysta videos talking about Nintendo devs, and according to them Tanabe is more of a silly guy.
It will be bigger than an Ally based of the rumours of bigger joycons and bigger 8inch screen. The Ally has a 7inch screen with barely any bezel on left and right side. The fact that it's 8inch and larger joycons means it will be wider no doubt.The size is close to Rog Ally than Steam deck:
And more than 80% of Nintendo Switch players are not small children:
Besides children can play fine on a Rog Ally's size machine.
And a bigger screen is better to play on Tabletop mode, specially on multiplayer:
So, children will not have trouble. They will love it in the end. Us too, of course.
I'm anticipating it to be a lot bigger than the other 3 games, I think that could really add to the development time...
When Nintendo said they would have a formal announcement this fiscal year that said it all. Announcement . . . This Fiscal year? And a June Switch only direct? That doesn't sound like a platform launching in 6 months.
Don’t mean to dogpile but the thing is... this had also been said about Pikmin 4
4? It looks like Infinite had some aliasing sprinkled on top - that is to say, looking pretty ruddy incredible, especially for the hardware!
All three of these shots just look like Remastered to me. Neither an improvement nor a drop. Obviously not every area has the same level of art direction, but those "impressive" shots aren't looking more detailed than Remastered in the opening area, with the queen's corpse on fire, nor does the latter shot look any worse than Generic Shooty Corridor in some areas of that game.
That seems like the opposite of what makes sense, no? If they're just ports with no new assets then they would probably be able to run on the new hardware at 4K natively without DLSS. These are GameCube and Wii games.
That's what I initially thought, then I had a second thought that maybe it wouldn't improve much other than just upscale to 4K. I guess I was overthinking. I hadn't thought they'd not need DLSS at all!
Ray tracing would essentially be better lighting, but that would almost be a large remaster/small remake for the game. You have to remake the lighting for the whole game when light sources now are more physically correct. The best artwork doesn't help when it is in the shadows most of the time.
I personally doubt that it'd skip ray tracing if it gets a switch 2 version as a crossgen thing. Don't think retro studios would decide to just not use a graphical feature like that if they have the opportunity, they like to bleed the hardware dry
Do you need to redo the lighting for ray traced reflections? Or ray traced shadows for that matter? I would inagine if they went with ray traced global illumination then they would need to re-art all the assets but I don't recall games like CoD (ray traced shadows) or the various games using it for reflections having to redo the lighting.
Reminder that the impact of resolution on performance is not linear, it varies from game to game and the hardware being used, overall if there are no bottlenecks present going from 900p to 4k should not reduce performance by 6x, it'll usually be much less
They're different ships anyways, the one in 4 is the same ship as in 3, which was a very different design from the prime 1 ship, and the metroid 2 / super metroid / prime 2 ship.
The ship is using 3's ship design
Halo 4 is my favorite look for Halo, and one of the most technically impressive 360 games with an incredible art style. So I do mean it as a compliment.
That's totally fair, I will say 4 had a bit more colour to spare than Inf.
Yeah, Prime 4 looks like Halo 4 in the best ways. Infinite rather looks flat and generic, in my opinion.
I'm not suuuuper well versed in this stuff, but to my understanding MPR/4's art relies heavily on baked lighting. This is where all the light bounces are pre-calculated and converted to textures. This means that it'd require a major overhaul to add real-time lighting to these games and implement RT. On the other hand games like BotW or Pokemon S/V or CoD rely on real-time lighting techniques using light probes. Since it's real-time, swapping to RT from a rasterized solution is a far simpler task. Someone else can probably explain is far better but that's the jist of it to my knowledge
Eh, Prime in 2002 was the only console FPS game that pushed out those kinds of visuals and retained 60FPS.
I thought it looked great….
Would an overclocked version help with any of this?
probably. if the clock was sufficient of course. but then you'd just hit some other limit somewhere
I just wanna jump in, because I don't think "just straight ports" actually reflects what intel there is. There are basically two sources of info about what's going on with 2+3, the big Belmont dump years ago, and Grubb. From Belmont, in September of 2021
And then summer last year, Jeff Grubb who had dropped a bunch about Prime Remastered, said this.
