Forum - View topicNEWS: Resident Evil 7: Cloud Version Game Announced for Switch
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kyokun47
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What a cool concept for underpowered devices! The only issue though is that it’s definitely gonna need an always-online internet connection, and for a portable console, that’s not how I want to play my games.
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John Hayabusa
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I do not understand why Capcom would do this. Whatever it is, this is a really bad decision. Not everyone has a stable internet connection.
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Kougeru
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^ Technically it's a HYBRID console. Outside of large cities, I honestly doubt very many people use these portablely out in public. Most people I know certainty don't. In their bed at best. But more importantly, this isn't really the type of game that should be played in public. It's really violent for one thing. Second, it requires focus and generally you'll want to being playing for at least an hour at a time. It's not really a game suitable for public play. If you have hour to play a game, you're probably at home or somewhere with a stable internet connection.
Personally, I've never had a good experience with a service like this. In a smaller country like Japan it might work well, though. |
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John Hayabusa
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This cloud service sounds worse than microtransaction in my opinion. Paying for it on a certain basis sounds more reasonable since you are paying mostly for the service to keep on rolling and not for the loot boxes that give you random items and characters. However, this is a concept that still has several years or even decades to become a common thing.
I understand that Capcom did not want to sacrifice some parts of Resident Evil 7's visuals and performance because of the Switch's underpowered hardware. Had they ported it straight, it would have looked horrible .I doubt this version will be as successful as the others. I assume that this will be Japan-exclusive for the time being so they can test the waters and see if this version is going to be profitable. Last edited by John Hayabusa on Mon May 21, 2018 1:09 am; edited 1 time in total |
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ParaChomp
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I smell a bunch of angry YouTubers.
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Jayhosh
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You’d be surprised. I’ve seen quite a lot of them out in the wild. I mean, it’s hardly bigger than a $1,000 iPhone plus, which people have no qualms carrying around.
“Had they ported it straight, it would have looked horrible.” No, I highly doubt it would have. Doom, a port of a much larger and “open” game looked and ran very respectably on the hardware and I have little doubt that RE7 wouldn’t also fare well in the transition to the platform. And even though this is neat and weird, I’d rather have a paired down competent port that I actually owned which ran on the hardware than a version of the game that, while on par with the other versions visually and performance wise, was plagued by inevitable delays and compressed video quality through streaming. |
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Arale Kurashiki
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We can talk about porting issues and download space all day but the obvious reason they're doing this is so nobody can actually own the game files.
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GoldCrusader
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I think that's actually a nice thing, if it works well of course.
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BadNewsBlues
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......yeah this isn't obvious to anyone outside of jaded cynics who feel the need to second guess everything Capcom does. |
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anddo
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Nintendo Switch: The Port Machine
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CurseTheSky
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Wow, you are so original. Same old tripe getting sprouted. I will never understand why people like you make ports sound like a bad thing. How is having more games available on a console a bad thing? Better than having no games like the Xbox! |
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Jayhosh
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This ain’t even running on the machine. Better luck next time. |
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Heishi
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Then what does that make the PS4 and Xbone, which by the way, also has this game? |
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BadNewsBlues
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......Systems that get ports at the same time as one another and also aren't innudated with ports of games that are months old/year old titles that look blatantly like they're filler titles.
Because when most of the games on your system are ports of existing titles (along with this same practice having already been done with the WiiU) it makes it look like you and whatever third party publishers that are working with you can't churn out any new worthwhile titles. It also doesn't help when the performance of some of these ports are rather shaky.
You complain about his snarky response not having no originality to it yet trot out a comeback that's as redundant as when people were saying the same thing about the PS3 and the 360? Whether these systems have no games worth playing s a purely subjective argument but it is an objective fact that most of the titles being dropped on the switch are ports a fraction of which are ports of WiiU,3DS, 360/PS3 titles pretty much everyone has already played. |
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anddo
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Remember to never criticize Nintendo publicly. They can do no wrong.
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