Monolith Soft shares Xenoblade Chronicles 3 message, another tease of the future

In an email sent to customers in Japan, Nintendo shared a message from Monolith Soft’s Tetsuya Takahashi, the senior director of Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

[LordoftheCritics]

Wasted on the Switch platform.

[brewin]

This probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for the Switch. A game this huge would be limited on the PS5 or Xbox. To much focus on high res textures and fancy bells and whistles to get this thing complete in a timely manner. The switch actually handles this much better than expected.

[LordoftheCritics]

''The switch actually handles this much better than expected.''

That exactly is the limit of this game.

It's potential is unfulfilled.

[Visceral89]

@brewin What's sad is XC3 would look and run better on a 9 year old ps4

[Spenok]

This is one of the most naive statements I've ever read.

[gleepot]

not really, was a masterful game as is

[gleepot]

also, the switch has a much larger install base than that of the ps5 or series x

[iplay1up2]

Nintendo is what made it happen. Are you 12 or 13?

[pietro1212]

The franchise wouldn’t exist without Nintendo

[brewin]

Whats crazy to me is that this game is so absolutely huge and stunningly beautiful, yet it only uses about 13gb of data 😳 that is absolutely astounding. I have ps5 and Xbox Series X and majority of games there are 50gb minimum for games a 1/4 of the size. This voodoo is crazy! How Nintendo cram so much into such a small amount of data?! The game does not suffer from not having high resolution textures either, things looks pretty crisp. I guess the art direction really makes a huge difference. Even Tales of Arise on Xbox uses close to 100GB and this looks pretty close to that.

[Spenok]

The reason Switch games are so small is because they compress the HELL out of them, while many games on PS5/XSX don't compress nearly as much, and in some cases don't at all. Which makes for higher quality assets in the end, and faster loading of said assets.