Nintendo Downgraded Tears of the Kingdom For Everyone!

Tears of the Kingdom had better graphics removed by Nintendo?! What the heck is going on here in this new Tears of the Kingdom news?! Let's discuss exactly what is really happening, and how Nintendo Switch is affected.

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[angryguymwa]

Zack is the same guy that supported Pokemon Scarlet/Violet's terrible performance. Trust nothing he says.

[Opnnd]

Probably what they removed was a duplicated resource library branch that was in two folders at once. They probably caught the mistake and removed it while doing a final pass to make sure that everything included with the launch package was in place, and that any developer resources that were there for testing purposes were pulled. The result was a clean build with no bloat from unused resources.

[sgonzo]

Video starts at 1:30 . You're welcome

[clerian]

Very likely that the 2.3GB removed was code cleanup to remove unused assets and code that had been abandoned during development.

[Cee_Nelly]

I think maybe 18gb file size was a high estimate since the game hadn't gone gold at that point (I think the file size info dropped in late Feb and the game went gold sometime in March.

I'm thinking the after the game went gold, they packaged it and saw that the final file size was just under 16gb.

This video feels like he needed something to make a video on and came up with this.

[Psychx_]

Possible reasons for the 2.3GB shrinkage:
Removal of unused assets, beta and debugging content.
Reencoded cutscene videos and/or audio.
Last minute changes to texture resolutions/poly counts (very unlikely).

[S_Tadz]

Wow 😂
"They removed the good graphics"
This video is a goldmine of developer's memes 😂😂😂

[Psychx_]

"They had 6.5 years to learn the Switch. We should get a better performing game than we are" - could it be that you need a refresher on computer hardware? The Switch GPU is based on an old architecture (GeForce 900 series, Maxwell), has only 512GFLOPs of performance and no asynchronous compute - that's the same perf. as a low-midrange GPU from 2009 or an absolute entry level GPU from 2011.
It's a miracle that the Switch even manages to hold 30FPS as often as it does, especially when considering the amount of stuff that it has to draw on the screen! For that, Nintendo is using every trick imaginable, including reprogramming the microcode that defines the behaviour of otherwise fixed-function parts of the GPU. There was no room for improvement since BoTW, as that game was already at the peak of what the console can do!

[deepmind]

FSR is obviously making the graphics more crisp. In fact, go look out for the infamous jaggies and tears of the kingdom has very little jaggies. This is thanks to FSR. Nintendo wouldn't waste their time adding something that's useless to their games.

[YouReyKarr]

I don't know how you guys do it. I can't imagine knowing so little about a topic and then giving my thoughts to 100k people, just to let them know how little I know.
I guess you get paid for the ads, but that ain't a trade I'm willing to make...

There are so many intelligent guesses you could have made, and you went for the conspiracy that doesn't even track...

[Reanimatedself]

Nintendo traditionally has very strict quality testing before adding in new software to their games. There is a good chance that they have implemented version 1.0 because it passed their quality control tests. If that is the case, they may implement version 2.0 after that passes further testing.

[benfarr]

Pointless video rambling about nothing with Zelda in the title for clicks

[MrIrishTech]

"I really take pride in making sure these videos are accurate, and we're talking about good stuff." Really, Zach? What about your BeatEmUps Hit Piece?

[Vageta]

FSR isn’t for graphics it’s for performance. The digital foundry review of the game shows that it often ran at 20fps prior to the new patch. Using FSR would allow them to sacrifice some fidelity for a more solid 30 fps.

[AtlusNFT]

I believe what really happened is they wanted to be able to fit the game on a 16GB cartridge rather than going up to a 32 GB. So they removed the patch from the cartridge and just made it a day 1 update. Now granted that doesn't explain the remaining file size thats missing but who knows maybe they found a way to compress the rest.

[Kenai_]

This game has so much content it’s actually insane im on my way to the 3rd main dungeon rn and I feel like i havnt even scratched the surface yet all that open space you had in botw has been filled to the brim

[ClosestNearUtopia]

Even donkeys know about optimization and compression. So your point?

[jamesc]

So you lied in a video and now you are revisiting it again with additional lies to make money.

Thanks

[k-Noodles]

I heard the only major slowdown was Tarrey Town area and it's soul-crushingly bad if you're like me and love that place.

[dogeymon]

You stretched this video 7 minutes just saying the same thing multiple times in a row 😆