If you could get 1 Nintendo franchise onto a high-end console or PC which would it be?
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BlackTron
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Zelda and Metroid. We already had a clean 60FPS performant Mario Kart all the way back on Wii U and Mario games have a low-test art style. The horsepower would be more keenly felt in detailed first-person games, or open world ones where we dealt with choppy 30FPS and poor image quality...
Little Mac
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Punch-Out.
chokotoureiki
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Metroid, preferably if Samus was in her Zero suit.
Perfect answer lol
ClanOfNone
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Metroid, a Prime game designed exclusively for high end hardware would be neato.
BlackTron
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The sad thing is Nintendo actually went ahead and made a full-on realistic looking Zelda after this great switcheroo (Spaceworld demo to Wind Waker), but Twilight Princess ended up being the ugliest looking Zelda. But they went out of their way just to show it could have looked good if they waited, with the WiiU demo.
Now I fear we are doomed to open world cel shaded Zelda until we're too old to care one way or another anymore. My best hope is a OOT remake.
LordOcidax
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The Zelda WiiU tech demo looked better than that an it was real time.
https://youtu.be/a50sYUESGTY?si=qRrHC70ruw30rwwF
Killjoy-NL
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None.
Mayar
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Not a single one
It seems to me that Nintendo games only work in the Nintendo ecosystem, and even if something is transferred to a PC, it is unlikely to give anything. Especially considering the fact that virtually all games, including Switch (not all work, but a fairly large percentage launch without problems) are already on PC thanks to emulation. And I don't see any particular excitement with their games on PC. Most of the posts that I read and saw are the same Nintendo fans who bought the game on the Switch, but play through emulation for faster performance.
It seems to me that Nintendo games only work in the Nintendo ecosystem, and even if something is transferred to a PC, it is unlikely to give anything. Especially considering the fact that virtually all games, including Switch (not all work, but a fairly large percentage launch without problems) are already on PC thanks to emulation. And I don't see any particular excitement with their games on PC. Most of the posts that I read and saw are the same Nintendo fans who bought the game on the Switch, but play through emulation for faster performance.
Team Andromeda
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Star Fox
Shifty1897
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Xenoblade, it already looks great, it just needs to run at a higher resolution than 540p.
Silver Wattle
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I want a team to do pokemon justice, the anime characters are so much better than the game characters, it's like they are two different IP.
Game Freak/Pokemon Company etc are shit at making games, they just keep watering down the games with each iteration.
Game Freak/Pokemon Company etc are shit at making games, they just keep watering down the games with each iteration.
Mr Reasonable
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Neither of these would benefit from more power, imo.
Tbh, you could make the argument that more power doesn't make better games by holding up Nintendo's library of titles.
I would like to see Totk at 60fps though. Higher resolution would be nice too.
But fundamentally, once playing the game, those things don't really matter.
So, my answer is of course:
Metroid Prime.
BlackTron
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I don't get how Zelda doesn't need it because art, but Pokemon does, which is literally anime and cartoon characters? And let's not kid ourselves that lack of power is holding Pokemon back, I think Pokemon is holding Pokemon back.
chokotoureiki
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Yes it could. Would you protest if Nintendo made the Switch 2 equal to the PS5 or Xbox Series?
Stitch
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Yes, game freak is the problem, not the hardware.
Mayar
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The irony of this question is that it won't happen. Nintendo is going its own way, different from the rest of the industry. They know their target audience and what it needs and make products for it (basically an Apple analogue). At the same time, their consoles have never been distinguished by the power of hardware, Nintendo made them according to the principle - "We make the console exactly as we need to achieve our goal." They have the opportunity to make a console of the PS5 PRO level right now and they have the money for it, but they will not do it.
bellome
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I was going to write exactly thisF Zero
I miss Wipeout
BlackTron
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These Pokemon games should be on PS5 Pro which has enough power to run these badly made games at 4k 120FPS without Gamefreak having to do anything. They will still look like shit but hey there's always PS6 to really uncap Pokemon's potential.
crackajack
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Metroid Prime or Wave Race
Prime with Returnal/Dead Space tech, or something like that, would be nice.
And where are racing games with modern water physics?
Prime with Returnal/Dead Space tech, or something like that, would be nice.
And where are racing games with modern water physics?
chokotoureiki
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See, this is why I think visual fidelity is more important than art style. There's no way a game would look like that on the Switch, but it's totally doable on more powerful hardware.Zelda of course. Imagine the amazing designers at Nintendo having free reigns to allow their chosen art style to really shine.
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Mr Reasonable
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What could?
chokotoureiki
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Nintendo games can benefit from more power. Nintendo always makes their next gen consoles more powerful than the last one. I've heard that same argument with the Wii. That HD was irrelevant. Super Mario Galaxy graphics were good enough. etc. It's pretty disingenous to pretend like more power doesn't benefit. The Switch 2 will be more powerful than Switch 1, as will Switch 3, and so on. Nintendo will always upgrade the graphics performance with each iteration, yet nobody complains about that.
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BlackTron
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It's a valid argument that power isn't everything, but Nintendo stans took it too far with this idea there is somehow something wrong with power and it's some sort of badge of honor to not have it. Uh, no it isn't.
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I havent touched Nintendo since the N64 days and I'd love to see lots of their stuff get higher end love. But I guess I'd be most intrigued with visually enhanced Zelda games. I'm hoping the switch 2 with DLSS might open a Pandora's box for me.
notseqi
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Makoto-Yuki
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Zelda. Don't ask me how I know it'd look amazing on PC...
Pokemon. Just imagine a Pokemon game taking full advantage of modern hardware like X3D cpus, 4000-5000 series GPUs and having access to more than 4GB of RAM.
Pokemon. Just imagine a Pokemon game taking full advantage of modern hardware like X3D cpus, 4000-5000 series GPUs and having access to more than 4GB of RAM.
I know the Switch isn't that powerful but a lot of the blame is on GameFreak. The issue isn't so much the hardware but the studio. Whoever dealt with BOTW/TOTK should be allowed to try a Pokemon game.