That’s a great game, I agree! Anyway, the developers themselves thought it could run on a Wii U - there’s even an official trailer for it. While it was cancelled in the end, that happened to many other games too since the console itself was a monumental failure and the team had already much on their plate with every other port at the time being buggy as hell.
Name a single game that does it better. If it’s both trivial and popular, there must be many examples!
If you think there is no complex math behind your ability to freely build 3D machines with different propulsion methods, buoyancy, air resistance, light, particle emission and movable parts at any angle, then you know nothing about math in games.
There is no part of Zelda that resembles complexity in any way. It can run on a potato because every system it has is multiple tiers below potato level.
It’s fine if you don’t like them, but calling the most popular and genre-defining open world games in recent memory bad on the very thing they are praised for is simply a bad faith argument.
Zelda BotW and TotK are the literal poster childs for ‘systemic games’.
I’m not talking about movement or combat here. Once again, there are Monster Hunter and Bayonetta for that, both running great on the switch.
Zelda on the other hand got the most impressive amount of systems running in the background. We’ve got a dynamic lighting system, a day-night-cycle, a weather system, the most impressive physics engine I’ve ever seen, elemental interactions - just literal tons of shit you can interact with in many different ways. Most open world games aren’t even close to that level of interactability with the world.
Having more movement options, combos and whatnot don’t actually require much more hardware power. That was an intentional choice, not a limitation in the case of both Zelda games. (On top of that, did you even play the game? You have an obscene amount of combat and movement options if you try building interesting constructions.)
And, getting back to the actual topic: Neither Witcher game had complex movement or combat and a lot less systems running in the background. Witcher 4 won’t play drastically different either, I’m quite sure. It’s all about prepping the right buffs, not about having deep combat.
Mechanics alone don’t need as much power as you claim. The most mechanically complex open world game I’ve seen is a Switch-exclusive: Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. The most beloved mechanically interesting Assassins Creed is on the Switch too: Black Flag. If you want complex fighting mechanics instead, there’s Monster Hunter and Bayonetta too.
I honestly think you overestimate how much your average consumer cares about being cutting edge in this day and age. I’m playing Witcher 3 right now on Switch despite having a PS4 sitting right next to it. I do think it plays just fine. And yes, a PS4, because almost everything still releases on last gen and without a side by side comparison games look the same to me on both PS4 and PS5.
I believe the next gen will have a slow adoption rate, just like current gen consoles, even if they won’t run into supply issues. Therefore it would be stupid to exclusively target them anyway.
I don’t think it is nonsensical. After all Witcher 3 is not only available on the Switch, it does run quite well on there. You can hate on the hardware all you want, some developers did prove time and time again how much the console is capable of if you optimize your game.
Both Witcher 3 and the Switch originally released within 2 years of each other. The same could be true for Witcher 4 and Switch 2.
CD Projekt RED has said that although it wants The Witcher 4 on all major platforms, it can’t go into any specifics yet
It’s literally the beginning of the article. The Switch is the most popular console around, therefore the next one is most likely a ‘major platform’.
The Switch 2 will likely be a major platform, so a PS5 release should be easy. Maybe even PS4.
Who cares? Just like most things your average programmer relies on, they are written by smarter or at least more specialised people to make your job easier. They have learned to write memory-safe code so you don’t have to.
They very much are for a lot of people. Lines goes up, you can give yourself a nice bonus payout and if things come crashing down you leave. With your golden parachute of course.
The kernel is probably too large to rewrite the whole thing at once. This could lead to a future without any new C kernel devs, leading to stagnation, while the Rust kernel could be many years away from being finished. (Assuming we actually move away from C.)
At that point you might as well just start an entirely new kernel and hope it is good enough to eventually replace the Linux one once all devs are gone. Kinda the X11 and wayland thing.
That’s probably the main reason to reason to ban AI. They want a mostly clean training set and they will probably add their own AI answers to each question as well.
They would be fine, you just have to choose a permanent location. Currently, we build the required stuff almost every time from the ground up and a lot of it isn’t used afterwards.
Trust me, most German public toilets are disgusting. Railway station toilets aren’t even free and a lot of them suck. The ones within a train? Even more disgusting. (If you’re lucky enough to find one that’s not closed for repair anyway.)
My only windows machine left still runs Winamp. It may be old, but at least for playing my offline library, I really don’t know what they could possibly change. For everything else, I wouldn’t use Winamp anyway.
Hey, that’s Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting! She recently sent me a mail about giving me ~$2.000.000, I should finally get back to her on that.
I vaguely remember reading about monkeys teaming up and beating others to death if they hoard too much ‘wealth’. If that’s actually true the meme is still kind of true.
Well, yes, and because of that they are getting worse over time. There are still good movies, but the percentage of crap grows.
Games too are kinda both and since capitalism realized the earning potential, a lot of them turned to mtx shit.
Once stuff gets made by suits, it’s shit.