Xdrive05
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Can you imagine Nintendo making games at the scale of Cyberpunk 2077, re: production quality and sheer amount of assets, textures, geometry, writing and voice acting, etc.?
They're about to release a console with exactly that game in a quick 3rd party port that looks to already outshine its 8th gen console builds, including the DLC that those consoles couldn't even handle. And yet Nintendo seems very conservative and cost-conscious as a dev shop. Mario Kart World might be the best (only?) indication that they're at least trying to scale up their production levels somewhat to match the new hardware, right? Bonanza might be doing some neat technical stuff that Switch 1 definitely couldn't do, but its assets (production levels) still look like their working with the same budgets and team size that funded and arted Mario Odyssey.
Will Nintendo go big now that they finally have hardware that can keep up, or will they keep making Switch 1 sized games just with better performance?
They're about to release a console with exactly that game in a quick 3rd party port that looks to already outshine its 8th gen console builds, including the DLC that those consoles couldn't even handle. And yet Nintendo seems very conservative and cost-conscious as a dev shop. Mario Kart World might be the best (only?) indication that they're at least trying to scale up their production levels somewhat to match the new hardware, right? Bonanza might be doing some neat technical stuff that Switch 1 definitely couldn't do, but its assets (production levels) still look like their working with the same budgets and team size that funded and arted Mario Odyssey.
Will Nintendo go big now that they finally have hardware that can keep up, or will they keep making Switch 1 sized games just with better performance?
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