Rocket League PS4 vs. Nintendo Switch Comparison: Ultimate Sacrifice For Portability

Rocket League on the Nintendo Switch is an interesting case. In the pursuit of 60 fps, the developers had to sacrifice a lot of the visuals to make the game run on the Nintendo Switch hardware.

[JonTheGod]

Strange; I wouldn’t have thought that RL’s graphics were that taxing.

[Dalailana]

The switch has no unreal 3 support only unreal engine 4.

[Sono421]

Am I the only one who actually thinks it looks good on Switch? I mean obviously it doesn't look as good as the PS4 version.. but it looks better then I thought it would, especially when you play it in handheld mode.

[AKR]

I think it has more to do with the physics system. That probably demands a lot of resources, so they had to cut back on visual quality to ensure the framerate could hit a solid 60.

[Omar91]

I say they did the right move for the game to tun at 60fps. It runs and plays great on the switch. I noticed the difference in graphics as soon as i booted it up, now indont even see it.

[Kosic]

It's somewhat to expect with the switch. For portable mode it's not going to be as obvious as it's only a 6" display.
For TVs it's where you'll see night and day.

But can't really compare the graphics of the PS4 pro to a Nintendo switch. It's not what the switch was designed for.

I'm glad to hear this runs well, even at a graphic downgrade. It just means more games could see porting over. I love my N.switch at the moment. But my taste of games for the system is the thing that lacks the most.

[Omar91]

Im the same way, I only have zelda, mario kart, odyssey, sonic and now RL. Everything else doesnt interest me. Im just waiting for smash bros and pokemon to come lol

[gtxgamer2]

The games great on switch. I have it on ps4 too I just had to double dip lol. The only problem I have is the buttons are pretty close together so whenever I try to boost and rotate in the air I find it a little hard. Im gonna see if I can change the button mapping to make it easier

[NotoriousWhiz]

Funny, I wouldn't call graphics the "ultimate sacrifice"

[MecheSlays]

It definitely looks good enough for switch hardware and 60fps

[Neonridr]

Hard to say that they had to sacrifice that much. Especially if we are only comparing the base consoles to the Switch. I don't even know why we would compare the Pro to the Switch in the first place, they are two different levels of consoles.

[UKRsoldja]

There's a pretty good sacrifice. Half the resolution and no anti-aliasing vs the base ps4 and xbox one.. It's about 3 times weaker than the xbox and 4 times weaker than ps4.

[Neonridr]

half the resolution? 720p is not half of 1080p. And you would be hard pressed to even notice a difference when in handheld mode. The screen is too small to see those details. Thankfully the game moves around so much that rarely are you getting static images to stare and compare at.

The game runs fine, it looks fine, plays fine. that's the bottom line here.

[Outlawzz]

First time playing rocket league on switch and I gta say it is freaking great lol I suck so bad tho and I really don't want to spend money on those dumb crates but I've heard that's the only way to get anything that's actually good