One Ubisoft developer has defined why Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 will depend on Game Key Cards as an alternative of ordinary cartridges, citing technical limitations of the console’s bodily media.
Responding to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman on BlueSky, audio architect for the Snowdrop Engine at Ubisoft Rob Bantin defined that the sport “depends closely on disk-streaming for its open-world environments” and that Switch 2 cartridges merely didn’t give the efficiency wanted for the sport to hit its high quality goal. “I feel if we would designed a recreation for Switch 2 from the bottom up it might need been totally different. Because it was, we would construct a recreation across the SSDs of the preliminary goal platforms, after which the Switch 2 got here alongside some time later. On this case I feel our management made the correct name,” Bantin wrote.
Game Key Cards have already stirred controversy amongst Nintendo followers, as they function a download-key holder somewhat than containing the total recreation on the cart. Whereas they are often resold and aren’t console-locked, critics have argued that they pose potential points for long-term video games preservation.
Star Wars Outlaws appears like a decent third-party recreation on the Switch 2, as gameplay footage of it to date has proven off a constant 30fps efficiency. Whereas it is naturally not as handsome because the PC, PS5, or Xbox Sequence X|S variations, the truth that Ubisoft has managed to get the sport operating usually effectively on the Switch 2 bodes effectively for the system and potential upcoming releases from the corporate. As compared, Elden Ring’s Switch 2 efficiency is not nice in any respect, in keeping with experiences.
Star Wars Outlaws launched for Switch 2 on September 4, a yr after it was first launched for PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X|S. This model of the sport consists of each of its DLC expansions–Wild Card and A Pirate’s Fortune–but the sport is perhaps a one-off contemplating that it wasn’t a industrial hit for Ubisoft. Firm CEO Yves Guillemot just lately blamed the Star Wars model being in “uneven waters” as one of many explanation why the sport did not attain Ubisoft’s gross sales expectations, though its value noting that reviewers and followers criticized the sport for its badly paced intro mission and numerous technical points when it first launched.
Most of those points have been addressed since then, and the post-launch expansions have been well-received.
