Nintendo Switch running Skyrim looks less pretty than other versions, but just as fun

Wonder what The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim running on the Nintendo Switch actually looks like? It's understandable, as the game was teased from day one of the Switch reveal. But wonder no more, as the game was playable on the show floor of EGX 2017 (formerly known as the Eurogamer Expo) and was recorded a few minutes' worth of gameplay for you.

[Retard]

"Skyrim, the game that just doesn't quit on you generation after generation."

[LIGATURE]

I look forward to fallout 3/vegas😂

[EddieNX]

Fallout 4 😊

[SuperRaccoon]

Honestly, New Vegas would be great, if it were offered at a good price and performed better than on the PS3/360. It would help cleanse the palate after Fallout 4.

They would have to manage to do it all for a good price considering anyone can pop open Steam during almost any sale and get it for less than $5.

[Movefasta1993]

New Vegas is a way better game anyways,I'd take f3 and Vegas with their dlc over 4

[Summons75]

Fallout 4 made up for NV trash. But I suppose you like absolutely broken games. At least Fallout 4 you could get out of the starting area without running into 3 different game-breaking bugs.

[Vegamyster]

Summons75

I put 70 hours into New Vegas and had no game breaking bugs.

[adonisisfree]

Fallout 3 was an awful game..

[babadivad]

It was inferior to New Vegas by a long shot. But when it launched, not knowing the awesomeness that is New Vegas was being cooked up, I thought it was great.

Fall Out 3's greatness[for it's time] had me hyped for New Vegas. There wouldn't have been a New Vegas if Fallout 3 was a bad game.

[Prince_TFK]

I think at this point, Fallout 4 has a higher chance of appearing.

In other note, I really hope to see Pillar of Eternity 2 appearing on the Switch somedays. I love the first one, and playing the second on the go would be amazing.

[Ristul]

New Vegas on the go? Where do I sign up, that would be awesome!

[gtxgamer2]

Don't get me wrong I love skyrim. But all this time porting to next gen and switch plus the Vr ports they could've put the time in for the next elder scrolls.

[Legion21]

It's probably a different/smaller team working on it.

[SuperRaccoon]

It's actually just two guys, Steve from accounting and Spunky the janitor.

[TheColbertinator]

@SuperRaccoon

Spunky is my hero

[Nintentional]

@SuperRacoon, Spunky once let me borrow $5 for lunch and didn’t even want me to pay him back.

[Gamble20]

As others have pointed out, at this stage it’s realy not an enormous amount of effort to port it over. It’s just a way to make a quick buck. Whether they did or did not develop it does not impact the speed with which they roll out the next Elder Scrolls.

[_-EDMIX-_]

?

The teams that they have actually doing these ports are not even going to be big enough to actually create an entire game in fact I don't think most of you even fully understand how ports are made if you honestly believe the same time could be made to create a game from the ground up

Ports of games could be made literally in mere weeks in fact the Switch is so easy to work with they could get ports up and running within days.

The teams that actually fully create ground up Elder Scrolls games do not actually make ports what you're talking about is completely irrelevant you're basically trying to compare a rerun to an entire brand new episode.

Do you believe running a rerun is the same thing as creating an episode from the ground up?

Do you believe that a restoration Team set to put Star Wars Episode 4 in 4k is doing the exact same thing as making a ground up brand new Star Wars movie?

When you actually understand what is being done you'll also understand why the notion of a ground-up game being made in its place is actually quite ridiculous and irrelevant to both products.

Once again just to put this into perspective that would be like asking the teams that edit and restore films to make a Star Wars movie from the ground up, you might be talking about a team of maybe five or ten people that are Not actors or not writers were not making set design for god sakes please dear God read what porting and restoration actually is, it has absolutely nothing to do with actual creation in regards to how you make a video game or a movie the two are irrelevant to each other

It is not an either or

[Rebel_Scum]

So says the guy who's probably never heard of regression testing.

[Prince_TFK]

Bethesda is already in development of two new games, GOT and a space game. So I doubt porting Skyrim would take enormous effort for them.

And who to say that they aren't developing a new Elder Scrolls?

[MetroidFREAK21]

Looks worse than the Special Edition XB1/PS4/PC versions... Looks better than the original 360/PS3 version... All I care about is how the game performs and plays. Graphics be damned.

[BlacKJesu5]

Why buy a new uglier version of an old game for msrp....

[superchiller]

Because Nintendo.

[septemberindecember]

It's not made by Nintendo, so I don't see why that matters.

[The 10th Rider]

Nintendo's not publishing the game . . .If anyone blame Bethesda. Besides, Skyrim launched at $60 on PS4 and Xbox One as well, so it's hardly a Nintendo thing

[septemberindecember]

Because it's portable and convenient.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Skyrim existed on laptops.

[septemberindecember]

@_-EDMIX-_

Hence why I put "convenient" in there. If you'd like to carry a bulky laptop with you and a controller to play Skyrim you can, but it doesn't detract from the portability and convenience of the Switch version.

[Neonridr]

@EDMIX - where does convenience and laptop go together when using public transport for example? I hate how "gaming laptops" are supposedly compared now to a handheld a fraction of the size.

[_-EDMIX-_]

That's nice.

[The 10th Rider]

Laptop ≠ handheld. Don't know why you keep acting like it does.

[GordonKnight]

@edmix @ vemonsnake

Imo a labtop is a portable computer not a portable gaming system. For me a portable gaming system is one that you can play almost anywhere. Like standing in a line for example, you can't that with a gaming labtop. At least without looking like a fool.

[The 10th Rider]

@VenomSnakeRisingX,

I'm not looking to argue. People have brought up laptops before when talking about the portability of the Switch, but they're two entirely different devices. A handheld device is far more convenient for gaming on the go than a laptop is. A handheld is a device that you can play in your hands, a laptop is portable yes, but it's more like a portable gaming station. Something that you lug around and then set up to play. Most PC games, Skyrim included, are a huge pain to play without a mouse and therefore you even need a desk or table to set it up at. That's a far cry from being able to stand around with a device in your hands playing a game, or pulling it out on a crowded bus and playing.

I own a laptop that I game on and I play Skyrim on. I'm not a huge Elder Scrolls fan but I can see where someone who was might be interested in the Switch version even if they own a laptop.

If you agree that laptops and handhelds are two different devices than surely you can see that mentioning laptops in a discussion about how a game is available on a handheld for the first time is useless.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I would say mainly for those who never actually played Skyrim to be quite honest I'm not sure why anyone who already played it would buy a version that cost more money with less graphical features and clearly less features overall

This was specifically made for the install base of Nintendo Gamers who have never actually experienced Skyrim.

For all we know this game could go on to do Millions for that install base in Bethesda to get a new market of Gamers to sell to. It is worth the Endeavor.

[Theknightofnights]

I've paid for Skyrim twice already, but I'm going to be buying and playing this version too. There might be a few more people in my position than you'd think.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@TheKnight-okay so you purchase multiple versions of this game so why would that be surprising that you would continue to buy every last version? And no I'm extremely doubtful there's as much people as you in that position because to my understanding Skyrim when it came to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One did not move 20 million units which means every last person that bought it before did not buy it again.

Sooooo yea

That's something that could actually be measured and shows that most are not doing that.

[Theknightofnights]

I'm not going to buy every last version. I paid for it on my PS3 last generation, paid for it on my PS4 this generation, and I decided that portability is enough for me to buy it a third time. I'm not buying the VR edition, and if it comes out for next generation I'm not going to buy it again.

Also, I never said every last person who bought it last generation would buy it for Switch. I just said there might be more people that buy this that have played Skyrim before than you think. Maybe you don't care for portability, but that is the selling factor for this game on Switch Even though I've played it before I'm ready to play it again because I can play it when/where I want.

[_-EDMIX-_]

That's the thing, you don't actually even know how many I believe will actually even by this version.

Soooooo yea

[Theknightofnights]

Hence why I used the word "might".

Sooooo yea

[Prince_TFK]

Because portable? Because people that had never played it? Because people that had played it but never finished it (like myself)?

[Eltortugagames]

It is not uglier then the original... most sites say it is just a little bellow the definitive version on ps4....

[FTLmaster]

Skyrim on a handheld - what a world we live in!

[Nintentional]

I remember seeing that epic citadel demo on iPhone years ago, and I dreamed of the day I would be able to play an elderscrolls game on the go (besides the ngage version lol). That day is finally here :,)

[pyroxxx]

do Dark Souls and I am going to buy this thing

[FTLmaster]

Pretty sure From Software got a small section of DS3 running on Switch. Fingers crossed they release something on it. Even if they just re-released DS1 with the dlc I'd be all over it like a flannel.

[Valkron1]

Worse than PS4VRPro version? Yikes!

[PhoenixUp]

Oh sure when Wii U got ports that came later on, had lower graphical quality, missing features, lower frame rate, and sold for full price people threw a hissy fit.

When all that happens for Switch it's suddenly ok because it just happens to also be a portable.

[ocelot07]

Will get this when sub £20.

[prb313]

the nintendo switch is an amazing console and the fact that it can run the games its running at decent graphics is a amazing thing its so small.