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Do I play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 or should I wait for Switch 3? (www.eurogamer.net)

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With games now jumping from one generation of consoles to the next, when is the best time to play something? Is there ever a best time?

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[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

On Switch 2 you get only HDR and 4K,no new textures or better graphics. You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.

On Switch 3 you will need to buy it again, only for $ 120.

The flood of remakes and remasters shows how the innovation in large gaming corporations has run dry.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

That's a little disingenuous. There are other gameplay features added for the Switch 2 version.

[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

You mean the app guide and building sharing through QR? That's on your phone. I speak for BOTW and TOTK.

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.

I've read this sentence like 10 times, and I just don't get it. What are you saying here?

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[-] Nima@leminal.space 23 points 1 month ago

just don't give this company any more money at this point in time.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Patient gamers FTW!

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just buy a PC. Then you don't have to wonder about this sort of nonsense.

E: you can safely ignore this exchange, I was wrong, Switch 2 is backwards compatible and the "enhanced editions" are only $10 for the upgrade.

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[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Im going to emulate this. Recently I was able to afford me a new PC with a Ryzen 5600X CPU with a RX 7600 GPU, it's time to gaming for me.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I bought it at release and emulated it 2 days after. Much smoother on PC, even with shader recompiling. Only reason I did it was to remove the duplication patches, but the improved graphics fidelity was a major side benefit.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

It runs and looks SO MUCH BETTER on the computer. And MODS!

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Any guides on how to get started? Would love to do a totk and botw run on pc

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ugh I only have a link to the guide I used on Reddit, but since I did this, both emulators have been taken down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totkmods/comments/149jes8/tears_of_the_kingdom_yuzu_setup_guide_60_fps_up/

It will still work if you can get the software tho!

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

with upscaling and antialiasing as well...

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Mmmmmm delicious beautiful graphics… at 60+FPS… with graphics filters to make the color POP…

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Emulate it. I'm pretty sure that there are active forks of Switch emulators that lay low.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Either wait for the switch 4, or just port it to pc and enjoy

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

If you already have a Switch then play it now. If you don't, then wait.

[-] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Nintendo has always had my favorite exclusives. My whole life, I’ve been guiding Mario, Link, and Kirby directly into pits hundreds of times a day. I just don’t think I can keep feeding Nintendos greed anymore and I’m a little sad that that part of my life might be over.

[-] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Pirate it, then store it? Then you could keep all your favourites forever.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Nintendo fucked me over with the WiiU and Zelda BotW... won't buy anything from them ever again

[-] Linkandluke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What did they do?

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They released a game for a console you already owned, and then released it again on the new console, and people got mad? I dunno.

I loved my Wii U, and loved playing BotW on it. I guess it wasn't designed to use the control pad in any special way, which was a bit of a drag, but it played great.

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I'm still waiting for xbox 12 before getting skyrim...

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

For me the answer is pretty clear, right now with my overclocked Switch 1, I get above 40 FPS most of the time (60 in certain areas) with BOTW and also I am using Fizeau to improve the colors to make it look more like a Switch OLED (it even looks great on the TV), I don't expect TOTK being too different.

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