Team Sonic Racing Is The Same Experience Across All Platforms

Yeah right. Switch will probably run in 30fps or too hit 60fps, have the lighting, textures and shadows pared way back. It may overall end in the same level of enjoyment with all versions but, the Switch version will almost guaranteedly not be quite on par with the PS4/Xbone versions. Which in itself is okay but, too claim otherwise seems like well-wishing.

Like the “lovely folks“ at Vooks.net, I would love to see YOU lovely people at NL doing more original interviews rather than just re-reporting other people's work. Please?

@Quarth I'd like to see NL put more effort into the site in general. Ever since Tom Whitehead left, the site's been in a constant spiral of mediocrity.

Aw man, I wanted an OUYA exclusive!

Not true, with Switch you can race on the toilet. You can't experience that with other platforms.

Except for the price, went on Amazon and they had the PS4 version for £29.99 while for some reason the NS Version was £34.99.
Honestly, after Xenon Racer, I'm only buying Nintendo Switch exclusive games, not taking that risk again.

@ilikeike I think the site has a lot going for it (like the articles on Game Boy lately or when they actually reach out to devs and publishers for interviews), but sometimes the quality of the articles isn't the best.

I understand it's not easy running a site and at the same time being dependent on ad revenue, but that doesn't mean the quality has to suffer. And yeah, a lot of gaming sites have tabloidesque material and clickbaity titles, but that's not an excuse.

But take the new article being based on a Twitter response from Randy Pitchford about him loving to see Borderlands on Switch. Instead of just re-reporting this tweet, it would be cool if NL could make the extra effort and try to reach out to him, asking if he wants to elaborate on his comment.

That said, I think there are a lot of great stuff going on here and I think most of the community is great (minus some toxicity and trolling). It's my go to Nintendo site, but that doesn't mean I think everything about it is great. So dear NL staff, don't be angry about comments like mine. We just want this page to be the best it could be.

i really hope it's 60fps...... and not 30. if it's 30 i'll cancel my pre order. 60fps is a must in racing games like these....

I guess that means Mario won't be making an appearance! The dream is dead.~

I'm actually glad there's not going to be cross over content with Nintendo IP's. I always liked the style of Sonic games so while karting games do seem to invite crossovers, I'm glad they are keeping it strictly Sonic.

I'm hoping it looks the same on Switch as well cause that was the main reason I got Sonic Forces on PS4. They're similar but the quality was just better for ps4 and ran better. But considering this is a kart racer it might be better on switch since it'd be easier to bring to a friend's place and personally I have more controllers on switch.

Honestly hope this means its 60fps. Because Sonic All Stars on Wii U was a shoddy 30fps on the same level of Sonic Boom.

I just want a decent racing game (sans-blue-shells). Hell, I’d take a port of Pitstop II from Epyx at this point in time...

I cant wait to play this. It looks awesome.

If any other company delays a game I’m optimistic, but not Sega, generally when they delay a game it’s only to bring a 4/10 game up to a 6/10 game. Sega has lost it’s Sega touch and all the Yakuzas don’t make up for it

If Mario Kart can be 60FPS then so should this game. All I'm worried about is framerate, as it's a racer.

Aww well that's a shame, I was really hoping that they would at least add Mario as a Switch exclusive character.

@Quarth I definitely agree, there's still some quality content here on NL (especially with Gavin Lane being a more active writer lately, every one of his features has been pretty fantastic imo). It's absolutely an improvement compared to this time last year - I swear, most of NL was damn near unreadable at that time, by far some of the worst "journalism" I've ever encountered.

I guess the thing that bothers me most is that it takes NL ages to report on anything - sometimes they report a story days after it's broken, even though NL is a pretty huge site that definitely has the manpower for a 24-hour news cycle. Meanwhile, significantly smaller sites like Nintendo Everything report on everything almost instantly, unlike NL - and without clickbaity headlines, to boot.

Anyway, that's enough ranting for one night. If NL can keep up with the quality features and maybe speed up their reporting, then I think that'd be great! Features are what they do best.

Hope they get this running properly on switch mk8 can do it so there is no excuse also hope it’s better than the last one on Wii u that used to make my Wii u crazy and reset itself as you were playing and it had some weird sound bugs too one minute really loud the next missing audio pls Sega do a proper job this time

@ilikeike Yeah, the slow reporting is something I've also noticed. NE is far superior in that regard. But what NL has that NE misses, is a good site architecture, more reviews and a more active community.

@YozenFroghurt Thanks for the advice. Had some discussions with Ant about the quality of the articles in the Feedback forum before and he seems to be a good guy.

I don't mind, it's a multi console release and nothing says the switch NEEDS to have a little something something special. They're right. People who wanna play on the go or in bed or on the toilet should buy the switch version

Eh, I'm in no rush to get this day one so I'll probably get it on sale, 60fps or not.

If I don't get it day one, it won't be too long afterwards before I get it. Some point in June no doubt. Oh, and yeah, Switch version all the way for me

I believe this is 30fps even on the PS4, so the Switch version will have some severe graphical cutbacks.

Honestly my interest in this series ended when they went Sonic only. A big part of the appeal to me was the big mix of SEGA IP in the previous ones.

The headline made me think immediately "so finally the same performance", but the intention is another: "no bonus on Switch".

Well, I'll have to wait for a review -hopefully before release-, because owning an Xbox One I have access to a version with achievements (so there's one difference, by the way).

I don't know if I want 3 fantasy racing games on Switch, after Mario Kart 8 and possibly Crash Team Racing. I'll have to choose between the latter and Sonic Team Racing, and the one I don't buy on Switch will go to my Xbox One collection. Knowing beforehand about the performance would help me make a decision.

Agree with my "girlfriend" @ramu-chan here. A big part of the charm was the Sega self-homage, but now it's just Sonic and his universe.

Shame. I would have loved it if they accidentally ported Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed instead.

@Prof_Yoshtonics I don't think this game is going to be worth getting anyway, just stick to any other kart game

@ramu-chan Couldn't agree more. This looks terrible and has thrown away everything great about the previous games in the series.

a team based game with no crossplay. i'm not interested, especially since my two platforms is switch an PC where there won't be any community or playerbase at all.
rip this game.

I'm honestly getting a tad sick of Mario kart and the 'kart racing' genre is my favourite type of racers. So It'll be day one for me and I need something to tide me over until CTR drops. 😁

Seems like many folks aren't interested in this one, but on the bright side, we got a couple of new Sonic shorts out of it.

Off topic, would a third season of Sonic Boom in Sonic Mania adventures style sound good to you?

I wonder if this is just Segas way of saying "no Labo support" since there are now 2 kits that support driving, the variety kit and vehicle kit.

@ClassSonicSatAm Yeah I'm looking to Crash Team Racing. It appears to be shaping up nicely.

As a fan of this series and the previous Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing games, I'm still excited for this game. Still hoping for a fun racer, even if it's not a "Sega All-Stars" game. Though, I usually expect multi-platform games to be the same across systems, so not too surprised on that.

For a Sonic racing game the roster feels awfully incomplete, and I guess having that 'team' system makes things really weird, why is Big more important than Cream? Why is Vector with Blaze and Silver, characters he has never even seen before? These are basic things they should've gotten right.

I didn't buy Mario Kart because I already have it on Wii U with all the DLC. No point in buying a game twice. So this looks really interesting!! It would be my first racing game on the Switch.

Imo the game looks funner than Mario kart 8, but l guess its because Mario Kart is old news for me.
I do like the race courses that are shown in the trailer, but l dont think l will buy it because l'm not a sonic fan. So it might feel weird playing the game.