Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition early resolution and frame rate details

NE: "Unfortunately for Nintendo, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition has leaked. While that’s not exactly the best news, we do have some early information about the game’s technical specs."

[Yi-Long]

Between 540p and 720p while docked.

Not gonna lie; That's pretty disappointing and bad.

[CDbiggen]

It is actually

[CDbiggen]

Well actually Xeno 2 probably was much the same and I didn't have a problem.

[Sono421]

Yikes...

[CDbiggen]

What, you never think twice about something?

[Pughski]

It's pathetic really. It's 2020 and Nintendo is still using cartridges as if it's still the 90's. 720p shouldn't exist in 2020.

[CDbiggen]

Well the carts help with the portability and definitely with the load times, that's not a problem at all. The resolution on the other hand is indeed a bit rubbish. I'm sure the Witcher 3 ran at 540 in handheld, so what is Monolith's excuse here?

[jmtstan]

if you played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on switch, you probably expected this. since the 2 games on switch was also 720 docked, 540 handheld mode. honestly it was quite a fuss back then, people complaining about the resolution. kinda understandable since the hardware limitation of Switch. but even then Xenoblade chronicles 2 still look gorgeous.

[Neonridr]

yeah but that was XC2, not the first one. And this isn't 720p or 540p, this is less than that at times. I don't agree with this at all.

[Nyxus]

Any word on the review embargo?

[Fraggle1987]

Heard the resolution goes below the wii resolution when undocked. This remaster has been a disaster.

[Antnee534]

Why has it been a disaster?

[Fraggle1987]

Because the resolution is so low the graphics are very blurry. Remember there was xenoblade chronicles 2 on switch which looks vastly better so there was no excuse for the resolution to be this bad. It is an older game fter all.

It has definitive in the title yet it can look worse than the original. Thats a disaster.

[Vegamyster]

Fraggle1987

It doesn't look worse than the original lol, those resolutions on a small screen are not the same as playing a Wii on a standard TV. Also Xenoblade Chronicles 2 also ran at similar resolutions in handheld mode, there was only a couple areas in the game where the resolution would dip that low though and it'll probably be the same case with this game.

[VariantAEC]

@Vegamyster
Try playing GRID or basically any title on a Samsung device dating back to the Note 4 with Game Tuner ( https://news.samsung.com/gl... - now defunct) or Game Plug-ins (Game Tuners replacement).

If you set your phone hardware to output at 720p natively and adjust Game Tuner or Game Plug-ins resolution scale to 75% you'll see how bad 540p looks. Now this would be acceptable in my opinion if games at least ran consistently and for an extended period of time on Switch, but neither of those things is true regarding Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch so this won't likely be a better situation with the remaster.

The problem is the game will look better but possibly run worse without any battery benefits too boot. At least when I choose to restrict performance in phone games I see appreciable gains in battery and thermal performance. I regularly get gameplay battery performance that bests video streaming and online browsing battery life... Let that sink in! I can and do play interactive 3D games longer than I can stream video or browse websites like this one on a phone (many sites with long text sections are taxing on mobile versions of Chrome). Limiting performance and resolution has that big of an effect on battery life.

Additionally what I was getting at is resolution being that low is pretty unsightly. Text in games like GRID get messy at resolutions under 720p.
Other games its not as much an issue, but aliasing is very obvious even in games with 4xmsaa (including GRID Autosport).

If this game is only looking better than it's Wii era counterpart but has terrible image quality and performance, then what was the point of remastering the title??

[King_Noctis]

“Has been”? Am i missing something here?

“ Remember there was xenoblade chronicles 2 on switch which looks vastly better”

At launch, Xeno2 on portable mode ran at 552p, 342p, and even 368p. They patched it and made it better. So who to say they won’t patch this game?

https://nintendoeverything....

[autobotdan]

This is horrible news

[KeenBean345]

I know it's a smaller screen and like mentioned in the article has sharpening but hitting 378p handheld is poor even for the switch. Expected more but hope it still looks good

[Neonridr]

How does part 2 perform better? That doesn't make much sense..

[lellkay]

Oh dear.

Defence squad in 3....2....1....

[FusedAbc]

Seriously,
Why can't they pump out 4k, 120fps in handheld mode, I mean come onnnnn the game is from 2010!
I think about making games all the time. So far I've made 10 in 12k , 257fps.
I could remake the remake in this too.
Their done. Enjoy!

[King_Noctis]

I think the correct expectation for this game would be 4K60FPS on both handheld and docked mode.

Nintendo are the worst gaming company, they can’t even achieve a simple gaming standard which literally every other consoles are doing right now.

[VariantAEC]

4K60...
Funnily enough a game like Xenoblade Chronicles (1) should probably hit that mark on Tegra X1 hardware especially considering the hype Jensen was pumping up during the Shield TV launch. They demonstrated Dead Trigger 2 at 4K so I can't imaging a Wii title like Xeno couldn't run in 4K at 60FPS!

If you believe the hype that is.

[King_Noctis]

Dead Trigger 2, ehh? I remember that game was so demanding and graphically-intensive that it made games like Crysis looks like dog poo.

[AnnaDea]

yay, 720p in 2020...

Game is awesome though.

Can play it in 4k with Dolphin!

[Pughski]

I'll purchase it once a patch comes out for it. That's horrendously bad and something like that shouldn't exist in 2020. Come on, Nintendo.

[SegaGamer]

I would rather just play it on Dolphin emulator.

[VariantAEC]

I got it on the 3DS over a year ago now and I still cannot get invested in it. I probably just haven't gotten far enough to understand the fans of this game either that or it's just not my type of game to begin with. I do like the scale of the world though that's pretty nice. I just wish they weren't so empty and barren. At least random encounters aren't a thing considering all enemies are plainly visible. It's actually been long enough that I can't recall if the in-game text pop-up sections are voice acted or not (probably not).

[Antnee534]

Man people in this comment thread all sound like entitled little gremlins. I mean the game runs exactly like xenoblade 2 does and it still looks better than xenoblade 2 did. If your a graphics whore than your no fan of switch and if your not fan of switch your likely not a fan of nintendo and boom makes no sense why you comment on a game your going in not going to buy.

[FusedAbc]

Exactly!!!

[masterfox]

Not sure how people pay 59.99 for a game that reaches 540p resolution in 2020, not joking is really interesting for me, I mean they are some that even says it looks beautiful, really not sure if they are serious or just defending their brand no matter what, hmmmm really really interesting.