Bethesda to launch Doom on Nintendo Switch

[Newsfeed]

Bethesda to launch Doom on Nintendo Switch

Bethesda is bringing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Doom to the Nintendo Switch, reported The Verge.

 

[Ninja'd]

Ominous headline

 

[konfab]

I have managed to source a screenshot.
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[cerebus]

I can't imagine how the image quality will look on the Switch but the short video they showed looked good, albeit blurry.

 

[bxm]

Here is a comparison between the Switch version and the PS4 version. Does not look bad at all...
http://nintendoeverything.com/doom-switch-vs-ps4-comparison/

 

[cerebus]

Here is a comparison between the Switch version and the PS4 version. Does not look bad at all...
http://nintendoeverything.com/doom-switch-vs-ps4-comparison/

Yea but that doesn't tell us a whole lot about the resolution, framerate, etc (although the framerate looked good, maybe even 60fps). One thing Switch has going for it is support for Vulkan and more modern APIs than PS4, which Doom uses; so it's quite possible they are able to optimize well at a low level for the hardware.

 

[BBotha]

I will definitely buy that when it launches.

 

[bxm]

I will definitely buy that when it launches.

Me too, fellow Switch owner.

 

[cerebus]

Me too, fellow Switch owner.

I'm split between buying this and streaming it via Rainway, if Rainway launches on time as it's meant to. My PC could run this game at max settings. Still the Switch native version only looks slightly downgraded from PS4 which is encouraging.