Ever wondered what Animal Crossing: New Horizons might look like at a higher resolution and frame rate? Well, wonder no more, as YouTuber SnazzyAI has returned with a brand new video - this time showcasing what Nintendo's island paradise simulator would like in 4K and running at a silky smooth 60fps. Provided you have a 4K screen, you can see it in all its glory.
According to SnazzyAI, the art style of Animal Crossing "really meshed" with the AI upscaler, and the AI interpolation also "killed it" this time around. In reality, Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch renders at 1920 x 1080 docked and 1280 x 720 in portable mode, with the frame rate running at 30fps across both modes.
SnazzyAI has previously released 4K, 60fps videos for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel trailer. Would you be interested in playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons in 4K, 60fps, if say that rumoured Switch Pro was released? Leave a comment down below.
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No ray tracing?
This is really a game that doesn’t need 4K 60 frames. Your average person woul barely tell the difference, even in game lol
me watching this on my 720p screen:
"neat"
RTX or bust. We need those perfect ray traced puddles.
yeah most Switch gamers have a 4K tv right
I can't watch it because I don't own any 4K compatible screens to watch it on
@hakjie11 I do, but TBF I own one for my ps5 and ps4pro... and I only play my switch in handheld mode anyway.
Tho a pixalart game on ps2/ps1/DC/saturn on a 4K screen through an OSSC looks phenomenal.
AI video upscaling and frame interpolation is really nice, although the interpolation often makes mistakes with hard-cuts in footage.
Like this actually.
Animal Crossing looks really nice in 4K 60fps, but it looks just as good at 720p 60fps, or even 240p 30fps.
All I'm saying is, can't wait for the PS5 version.
I can't really tell much of a difference. 4K 60fps Rocket League would be DOPE though.
Wow how'd they make this look 4k on my phone, incredible /s
New switch better be worth it.
The delicious fuzzyness of characters is gone in upscaling... Meh.
Nintendo's first-party Wii U and Switch games have been in graphical styles which scale well to higher resolutions and frame rates, fortunately.
You can say it doesn't look much better (better be on a 4k TV/Monitor when you say that, lol) but it is so pleasant and nice if you could have it for real, right? That's good.
A Switch Pro with modestly better performance (especially docked) could be really great for those that want that extra fidelity. It means that first-party games will be targeting the original Switch for years to come, anyway, which seems win-win to me.
Because framerate is so important in Animal Crossing, lol
@hakjie11 Most? Maybe maybe not but a lot of them. The Switch is not some product that only a certain group of people have. A ton of different people have bought Switches as this point hence why so many have sold and a whole lot of them do in fact have 4k TVS.
Honestly doesn't look any better of different.
@hakjie11 I have 3 4K TVs it’s almost impossible to even get a 1080 tv anymore. I bet the vast majority of switch owners have a 4K TV
I don't care about 4k, but 60fps would be nice because older Animal Crossing games were 60fps.
60 FPS is really all I would care about. I don't even have a 4k TV currently.
Looks nice in 60fps.
Can't tell the difference.
Most toon games don't need 4k. The detail in the textures isn't there so it's useless.
One of the most filler-y articles I've ever seen at NintendoLife, kinda disappointed actually.
It’s pretty impressive looking even with some of the errors in interpolation. The thing about 4K is that it just looks incredibly clean, which Animal Crossing totally benefits from. The art style suits it a lot and 60FPS would just make the game experience more enjoyable. There are no downsides.
@Clyde_Radcliffe It's funny you mention that, since the Gamecube and Wii games were 60fps.
@Menchi Never played the Wii one but the GameCube game was essentially an N64 port so probably pretty easy to get running with no problem at 60fps.
Totally useless for this kind of game.
What an odd choice to use for this example.
Do one of the Xenoblades, they have awful resolution and framerate at times.
@neufel Lol. Pretty much.
I know it's not a normal request, but I wish Animal Crossing had a performance mode! I would play it in handheld if it had one. The Wii game ran at 60fps, so surely it's possible to get the Switch game running smoothly. Oh well, at least it runs very consistently at 30fps so my TV can dejudder and motion smoothen it so it appears smooth while docked...
4k 60FPS is overrated in the extreme. It is nicer than 1080p 30FPS, but it's only a very small difference.
Literally cannot tell the difference
Creator is annoying as hell. "Look what I made!" Jog on, buddy. This isn't that impressive.
What a useless video and it's absolutely laughable that this was considered "newsworthy".
If the game were being rendered in UHD resolution, sure, it would be nice to able to see what the current version of the game would look like. But "upscaling" and frame interpolation? Any schmuck can do that, and the footage looks objectively worse (it could just be YouTube's compression at work, but it looks like they have also applied DNR to the footage), though many will be fooled by the illusion of a higher frame rate.
Will this make the game better?
@Scrubicius No.
On my laptop, I watched this on it looks exactly the same.
Um, interesting certainly but nothing huge or significant there for me at all.
wow, so cool, amazing
4K is totally irrelevant in games like this.
Ah, that makes me kinda miss the early days of my island before it was developed and I had 2 million bells in the bank.
Oh god again!?
Why are you all so desperate to part with cash simply to keep up with the Jones?
Your stupid upgrade hype costs everyone else a fortune or, more often, just cuts us out if any further fun.
Quit it!
Switch is fine as is.
Not so fussed about 4k but this game absolutely needs to run at 60fps.
I own no 4K devices, so I guess I'll just take your word for it.
I would LOVE for Animal Crossing to run at 60fps, but could care less about wiether or not in ran in 4k.
maybe im blind, i can't see no diference between the regular Animal Crossing i play and this 4K 60fps, why not use a game that suffer for frame rate problem like Hyrule Warriors:Age of Calamity?istead of Animal Crossing.
@hakjie11
Honestly if they bought the TV within the last few years they probably have a 4K. You really can’t get an HD one anymore.
No difference to me
4K is about as interesting to me right now as VR...not high on my list.
Don't care about 4k, but 60fps? Sign me up
What’s with all these Nintendo fanboys and not having a 4K tv? What is this 2013
Requests for higher frame rate and higher resolution in an action adventure game makes sense, but a simulation game like Animal Crossing? Now that's just asking for too much.
I don't think we need 4k at all games look perfectly fine as they are, we getting to the point now where the human eye cannot perceive the difference. Altho there will still be those people who believe they are super human and can see a difference.
@Strictlystyles animal crossing feels very stuttery to me at 30fps. Other 30fps games don't bother me like this. That said still sunk 300+ hours on the game lol.
This is more impressive, Zelda with Ray tracing 4K:
@Strictlystyles no lol it would look much better
Didn't Animal Crossing used to be in 60 FPS?
@Liam_Doolan offtopic, I know, but :’( Jonas Neubauer passed away
https://twitter.com/Tetris_Official/status/1347779948707246082?s=20
I say, it looks a lot like animal crossing!
the art style doesnt compliment 4k , doesnt look much different
Count me in the “I don’t own any 4K devices” camp. Perfectly happy with my 11-year old 44-inch HD TV, which still works and fits my living room size.
@ok1 Exactly
I just spent more bandwith watching these two minutes than I would have spent on downloading the original N64 game. :v
Person in the video is insufferable. I'll stick to my regular 30fps.
Looks good, but to me this only proves Nintendo was right in their technology choices. As nice as this is, it's not really any better in a significant way that would justify the added costs. I'm still amazed at how good the lighting looks in ACHN as is, not to mention how pleasant the different materials look. It's one of the reasons I keep playing it, the world just looks (and sounds) so soothing.
This is already possible. The Switch emulator "Yuzu" can run AC at full speed in true 4k. It's actually very funny to me that someone bothered to run an AI upscaler. You can play this yourself. You can even play online with people.
Hell, you could run this game in 8k with good computer hardware.
30 fps for Animal Crossing is completely fine, but I hope that the inevitable next iteration of the Switch can run the game without slowdowns on densely decorated islands.
Ray tracing would be even better but this already is amazing
@RupeeClock what is that
@PlagueknightIsMe
Animal Crossing is a game that runs at 30 frames per second.
The video in this articles show the game running at 60 frames per second, but achieves this by using artificial intelligence software that examines two frames, and draws an inbetween to the best of its abilities. That's known as motion interpolation.
That picture is an inbetween frame generated on a hard cut, between two difference scenes. The AI didn't correctly assess this hard-cut or could not figure out a proper way to maintain a 60fps output when that cut occurred.
@NoTinderLife it just looks like ut was run through instagram filter
click noice I wish banjo kazooie got graphics like that
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