This is how performance changes on Nintendo Switch six years later

Only a few measly hours separate us from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the title that promises to completely revolutionize open worlds. The work of Nintendo It is one of the clearest candidates for the best game of 2023 and that is saying a lot considering the shadow cast by its predecessor.

And it is that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild marked a before and after in the video game industry. An enormous Hyrule, ready to be explored, appeared before Link’s eyes, although now we have a very different terrain. To check how much has changed and, above all, what kind of improvements we will find, we can take a look at the comparison made by The Bits Analyst.

According to his checks, Tears of the Kingdom hits dynamic 900p in dock and dynamic 720p in handheld mode, with occasional drops to 792p. One of the most interesting novelties for the game is the inclusion of FSR 1.0, AMD’s upscaling technology. It has been implemented, albeit with a bug activating dynamic resolution when it shouldn’t.

The problems related to the stuttering of Breath of the Wild they seem forgotten, although frame drops can be experienced using powers in graphically-heavy places or with too many NPCs on screen. The drops can be as pronounced as staying at 20FPS while playing.

The draw distance has been increased compared to the 2017 title, the sun is no longer in the same position, and general lighting has been improved. Some textures have been buffed up, though a drop in grass density compared to Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom load times are faster for fast travel

but Breath of the Wild takes less time to load the game itself.

The water is also noticeably better and many areas of Hyrule are hardly comparable as they have changed so drastically. We are talking about the fact that the comparison has been made with version 1.1.0 of Nintendo’s work, so that the successive arrival of patches will solve the existing problems.

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