Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Port Is Finally Confirmed

Doesn’t look THAT technically impressive ngl

New Nintendo Switch confirmed!

Kingdom Come will look like a PS1 game if it gets ported to the existing hardware!

NINJA APPROVED

Makes up for the fact that Switch once again gets left off of a major multiplatform release announcement (Elden Ring) regardless of the fact there are likely over 90 million Switch owners now. Wake up third parties and stop with the excuses. Day and date with ALL the other platforms.

If the port is as nice as Saber's Witcher 3 Switch-port, Im buying it. But I do have a hard time believing it will be as good as Witcher 3 on Switch, as Kingdom Come still runs pretty bad on PS4/Xbox.

If Saber is behind, we can trust.
Awesome news!

Edit: Btw, is that the Switch Pro, in the tweet? O.o

This one I have to see to believe, even on PS4 Pro the game has long loading times and the framerate is capped at 30 fps, very interested to see how this turns out.

@kingbk Day and date on every platform including Switch is how disasters happen. Some games aren’t feasible, some would cause the poor devs to be stretched so thin they’re Flat Stanley.

@Dpishere It'll probably be a downscaled port like Witcher 3 (but worse), and if the rumors are true, a proper port on the Switch pro.

@nessisonett
Given From Software's non-existent track record on Nintendo hardware (outside of Dark Souls Remaster that was ported by someone else), none of their games should be expected on Nintendo platforms regardless of hardware specs.

TBH the Switch Pro could probably run Elden Ring as it doesn't seem to be pushing the graphics envelope like the Demon's Souls remake, but it won't happen.

Would you look at that almost borderless screen. Maybe a bad Photoshop, maybe not.

@SkyArcher
It's a bad photoshop.

No one is gonna accidentally leak the Switch Pro via Twitter lol

@kingbk I really doubt Switch can handle Elden Ring if it hasn't even gotten any of the other current gen FromSoftware games like Sekiro or even Dark Souls 3

Even DS Remastered on Switch is basically a slightly better looking version of the original game and is missing a lot of the lighting effects and texture upgrades from the other platforms

Damn. Saber are shaping up to be in the major league Switch porting wizards on par with Panic Button and Virtuos. I'll definitely keep an eye out for the game, especially as it's not subsequent entry in anything. As for performance jokes, I'll leave it to the poor souls who still believe the other couple dozen ports I've comfortably enjoyed to be "running like crap". Heck, I've yet to see a gameplay video where Ark would look and play quite as atrocious as the fandom would have you believe. You want legitimate unplayable graphics, try launching Shenmue on an Intel HD machine (at least that's what was alleged to be the cause of the symptoms I googled after my own unforgettable attempt).

"Saber Interactive's delivering its next 'impossible' port"

And that is why, unless we get a Switch Pro that is at least on the level of a PS4 (base model) such ports should not happen, the price to make it on on the Switch is often too high.

And I played this on PS4 (PC too, that was much better) so this does not look that promising on the Switch.

I wonder how they plan on tackling the size of the game since it’s about 70 gb on Steam. Nintendo did discuss bringing 64 gb cartridges which would also help bring games like GTA V. It would definitely be expensive for developers since most don’t even use the 32 or 16 gb ones, but it would be nice to have the option to. The Switch Pro will also need to bump up internal storage to something more reasonable like 128 or 256 gb.

I welcome this coming to the Switch, brother!

Never played it. Looks very appealing to me.

Added to my wishlist/watch list but feel like I need to wait until released. Awaiting to see what the day one patch does. Then await the 1 to 3 month bug fixing frame rate patches. Then see if they keep patching or we just have to accept the terrible frame rate drops and popin graphics and bugs. To finally get a masterpiece like The Witcher 3 turned out to be on the Nintendo Switch.

The joys of ownership of the Nintendo Switch, anyone heard the rumours that a pro console is coming out?

Yeap day one buy for sure. Saber Interactive is a trustful dev so I welcome any impossible port they manage to make miracle for the Switch.

They've handed this game out for free multiple times, I'm not paying for a Switch version.

-interested to see how it holds up though

@westman98 Is there even any footage of Elden Ring, yet? And I mean besides the cinematic trailer/all the fake gameplay footage people keep posting?

Cool, cool, cool. If there is a physical, I'll pick it up. Played on Xbox, lots of fun.

@TheBigN65 : That's what I'm hoping to see at E3, is the 64GB and up cartridges. This was supposed to be out 2 years ago I think.

What the ...? This Saber are a team of dark sorcerers in cahoots with the Devil himself...

@nhSnork virtuos isn't good at porting to switch. half of their conversions are decent at best

Ooooh now I'm excited. This is a pipe dream! I'm gonna squeal if they make it an all-in-one cart with all the DLC.

@nhSnork I thought I was the only one that had a PC running on Intel HD lol

Now the only question is when are we going to get a port of GodFall? ¯(ツ)/¯

@Casual_Gamer95 which is already enough considering that their conversions tend to grant portability denied or ill-applied almost everywhere else (except maybe for games with past Vita ports...which are usually also by Virtuos). The bigger point here is the scale of games they port - expansive actventures and RPGs which benefit from portability most and give you many dozens of gameplay hours for the buck. I'm borderline indebted to them, looking back at what games I have actually been able to experience or finally replay thanks to them.

@Koudai1979 yeah, an unabashed owner of a used Fujitsu Lifebook A514 here (not to mention the Intel graphics in my 2006-built home rig, but that one's lucky to still work).😄 I did bump its RAM to 12 Gb, but the machine itself impresses nonetheless - while Just Cause 3 has been detectably sluggish, I've had pretty damn comfortable experiences with the relatively recent games of a more reserved pace like Soma and Prey. Which is why I was disheartened to see Shenmue, a remaster of a Dreamcast game, refuse to cooperate in no uncertain terms. The second game reportedly doesn't have the issue, but I don't see a point in jumping all the way to it. Oh well, in Switch we trust. #portbegging

@UndoControl If someone deserves to have the devkits, it's Saber XD, and Panic Button.
Thanks to them, we are getting amazing third party support, which we couldn't get otherwise.

This is my favorite game of the last gen.
If you haven't yet you should absolutely give it a try!

I will get the Switch version as well to support the developers.

Good game but has way too much realism for me (too sim-ish)

@Cyberbotv2 Your exactly right, they have been trying for a couple of years now with some issues and have been delaying it since like 2018. Hopefully we see it sooner than later to see bigger games come to Switch. GTA V is totally able to run on it but the storage is an issue and micro transactions in GTA Online. It would sell like hot cakes though for being a portable experience.

Is that a 'Switch PRO' in the thumbnail??

@BloodNinja You think the Elden Ring trailer wasn’t real? A bunch of people thought it looked a little too real.

@invictus4000 I had to take a second look haha... they just pasted the logo over most but not all of the bezel.

I forgot about this game. It looks very nice. Added to the wish list.

@UndoControl Pretty sure Saber Interactive would be high on the list of top candidates deserving of a Switch Pro devkit (if such a myth exist). After all they are partnered with tons of well known publishers, it would be stupid for Nintendo not to give them one.

@BloodNinja not improved. Nintendo Switch is far more powerful than the ps3. Nice try though lol

@the_beaver @Slowdive It just looks like a bad photoshop. That they laid the image over that entire part of the Switch instead of the just the screen (the same area a screen protector covers).

@Slowdive It sounds to me more like they were gloating about having found someone who was a virtuoso at porting a game like Kingdom Come to lower-spec machines like the current Switch. I don't see anywhere that would imply them using a "Switch Pro".

Count me in the minority that actually prefers games like this, DOOM, Skyrim and Witcher 3 over many of Nintendo's popular offerings like Animal Crossing or anything Pokemon.

@BloodNinja
Pretty sure that trailer container some actual gameplay footage.

@kingbk It's a good thing you still give jobbers and mid-carder games the chance instead of always focusing on the main eventers. Sometimes these jobbers or mid-carder games may surprise us.

@BloodNinja Guessing a lot of the Elden Ring footage was in-game. Yes it looks good, but there's also some elements that look kind of rough like the fur textures.

This portable....yes!!!!

@Spiders The one trailer is real, but many youtuber's prank with gameplay footage.

@SnesSwitch Uh, what? Let's start with the CPU.

PS3 CPU: 3.2 GHz
Switch CPU: 768 MHz

I hope you know the difference between gigahertz and megahertz. Let's find out.

@BloodNinja

The switch runs circles around a PS3.
The entire architecture of the switch is a generation ahead. Therefor comparing 'numbers' is senseless.

@Austrian Did you read the Ninja Gaiden review? Seems that it can't handle a PS3 game. I think this is "brand loyalty," blinding people.

@BloodNinja
Dumb comparison. CPUs are also clocked lower than 3.2 ghz on the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, PS4, Xbox One S and OG Xbox One. And 768 mhz is the GPU clock speed, not the CPU clock speed. The CPU clockspeed maxes out at 1.02 ghz.

@Austrian

The Ninja-guy compared a 2006-era generation CPU with a Switch...GPU. Clearly, he knows what hes on about lol

@kingbk for sure I like both bethesda games, kingdom come deliverance etc and Nintendo games more than PlayStation movie-like or boring open world "games".

@nhSnork all of this doesn't matter if the ported games have too many issues. i'm sorry but just because they crammed outter worlds on switch, it doesn't mean they're good. in fact outter worlds was actually a mess when first released on switch and it just proved everyone that virtuos is all talk and no bark. Obsidian themselves had to fix the mess.

So no, virtuos is not a great port studio, they lost their switch credibility with outter worlds.

Also, remember dark souls remastered? that port was in fact just a 1080p xbox 360 port with heavily compressed audio. they had the audacity to tell people they compressed the audio to keep a stable framerate. Guess what? modders patched it and framerate was still stable, so they were telling a bunch of BS

QLOC and saber may not have done the same amount of ports on switch, or even iron galaxy, but at least all of their ports are MUCH better quality than anything virtuos released so far. At they understand that quality is more important than quantity. Virtuos is all about quantity.

@Casual_Gamer95 "too many issues" is what this fandom has long lost credibility claiming after all the Burnouts, Witchers, Bloodstaineds, Portias and other badmouthed examples whose "sins" personal experience wouldn't corroborate even in YouTube videos. So while I didn't catch The Outer Worlds at launch, I have little reason to take someone else's word for its alleged "atrocity" pre-patch. Dark Souls audio never impeded my gameplay or atmosphere perception either, and what modders do on hacked hardware is irrelevant to anyone who won't hack theirs anyway - this isn't a damn PC. Go pitch the patch to Virtuos/Bamco and have it run conventionally for us poor sheeple, then there will be notes to take.😏

Overall, I've played enough Virtuos ports (since, as said above, they tend to cover the very titles I'm very much in the market for) to have an impression of their competence, so all this song and dance will work on me even less than it usually does.

@nhSnork deluded much?

@Casual_Gamer95 that's my line, fan.😊

@ncb1397 That’s the CPU speed, and it kinda governs what the whole thing can do. It’s well-known that the CPU creates bottlenecks during its processing. Your brand loyalty is blinding you, but that’s on you.

I own both systems, so I can do side by side comparisons. It’s certainly not running circles around the PS3 when I compare titles that are on both systems. It’s just the facts.

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but keep in mind that Panic Button, who are undoubtedly among the most competent studios for Switch ports, were behind the Apex Legends port and we all know how it turned out.

This looks like it could be good. It is more appealing than one hundred more anime/pastel apocalyptic "adventures".

@BloodNinja

"I own both systems, so I can do side by side comparisons. It’s certainly not running circles around the PS3 when I compare titles that are on both systems. It’s just the facts."

what, like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geE7QsLmaYA

Your PS3 "monster" 3.2 ghz CPU has a far worse frame rate in that game (compared to a 1.02 ghz Switch CPU or a 1.5-1.6 ghz clocked PS4 and Xbox One). The framerate is lower, it is running at below 720p rather than 900p, the frame is worse, and due to the 8x less RAM, the texture details are lower compared to Switch/PS4/PC.

or here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du0eEWddqVQ

The PS3 is running in some parts at 20 fps compared to 60 on the Wii U and Xbox 360 (and the Switch release is all together better than either the Wii U and Xbox 360 releases).

@ncb1397 So then, just the same as the Switch

Nobody said the PS3 is a monster, except you. I’m saying the Switch is no better than it, and videos prove it. Again, brand loyalty is making your mind too tense. Not sure why this conversation triggers you so much!

@BloodNinja
"I’m saying the Switch is no better than it"

Sure, the console that suffered from "Rimlag" on Skyrim due to file sizes larger than 5.5 mb due to the 512 megabytes of RAM split into 256 megabytes of video RAM and 256 megabytes of general memory. Meanwhile, the Switch conversion is basically locked at 900p @ 30 fps, does not suffer from "Rimlag" due to a modest increase in game file sizes (no doubt helped by the order of magnitude jump in available memory).

This is like saying there is no difference between the Xbox Series S and a PS4 Pro. There are obviously advantages despite similar raw compute performance on the GPU side and addressable memory (10 GB vs 9 GB).

This sparks joy. One of the few games outside of my current reach that I was greatly interested in.

Wow I actually want to see if they can do it.

@nhSnork I don't think I've heard of the Fujitsu brand. I have a used HP Compaq Pro 6300 Small Form Factor with only 8 GB. I don't even have an SSD in it and currently the only games I've played on it are Chess, Solitaire, and Sims 3.

One of these days, I'm gonna try to get at least a GTX 1050ti. I've seen people on YouTube running DOOM Eternal on an HP Compaq Elite 8300 with that card, so I'm hoping that my 6300 will be able to pull it off, too.

@Koudai1979 well, yours can add a new GPU, that might be more beneficial for gaming purposes than the RAM slots I can access in mine. I had never heard of Fujitsu prior myself - I was just searching for the specs comparable to the malfunctioning GPD Win 1 within a rather shameless sum I could allocate until next payday... and somehow found one thanks to the previous owner accidentally breaking one of the hinges and shelving the whole thing shortly after their purchase.😆 Not the prettiest sight as a result, but has served me well for two years since (the machine itself is listed as a 2015 release), accomodating my comparatively recurrent access to many things from repeat playthroughs of FFXIII and Dishonored (and Bioshock before I could finally replay those on Switch) to the early franchise entries like Just Cause and Assassin's Creed to the classics that no one sanely expects on consoles by default at all (HoMM, Divine Divinity, The Witcher etc). And while sluggish in PS2 emulation overall, it did have my back with the Namco x Capcom playthrough I've mentioned here before, too.

I won't mind if the graphics take a big hit when it gets ported. I don't need the characters to look like real people. I have an imagination.

@nhSnork Lol I've never really been into PC gaming outside of the games that I've already mentioned until recently. I'm even interested in streaming my games and art work once I can afford an actual ISP instead of having to use my phone's hotspot data.

I've gotta get a lot of other stuff done first, though. I've gotta get my room finished, then I have to buy things like a capture card. I know that the Elgato cards are good, but they're out of my price range at the moment.

As far as my Switch goes, there's still a ton of games that i wanna get for it. So far I've mainly got free to play games, but my family bought me Immortals: Feynix Rising and Assassin's Creed III Remastered and I managed to pick up Duke Nukem 3D recently, too. That one brought back a lot of memories!

@Koudai1979 I've got Immortals and Duke Nukem, too (less nostalgic since I only played it quite briefly as a kid, but it's fun); might potentially pick up AC3 this month even though I'm still on the first game. As for PC gaming, I was active there in my university years, although my old rig barely ran anything big beyond 2005 release dates (even then, stuff like Oblivion and Titan Quest plain wouldn't launch, and that Intel version doesn't even support Shader 3.0). HoMM4 and Civilization 4, Vice City and San Andreas, Osu and Guilty Gear XX, plus the recently discovered emulation including PS1 that I couldn't emulate anywhere else back then - that was my jam. I ironically sat out most of Gen 7 as a result but never starved for stuff to play regardless.

Then came full employment, and a PC gamer I was no more - my hobby fell fully back on portable ground, mainly the trusted DS Lite and PSP I got in the early 2010s. Granted, I actually had a period of Gen 7 third parties for a year or two when my "downtown downtime" and finances led me to have bimonthly sessions of rented XBox 360 time at a local internet/game center not far from work. I managed to beat all three Bioshocks and most of the FFXIII trilogy back then! 😆 But those and a few other sampled games from the center's catalogue remained the extent of my acquaintance with the generation's home console turf up until my later portable acquisitions (Vita, 3DS and Switch, plus the streamed PS4) provided me with some ports thereof. Meanwhile, the PC turf stayed off-limits for me until I managed to pick up a used miraculously imported GPD Win in 2018. Despite its own limits and compromises, including controls and screen orientation challenges, I could finally dive back, this time legally (outside some abandonware like NFS HP2) and quickly amassing a gargantuan library across Steam, GOG and various Humble Bundles.😆 As I mentioned above, the micro PC sadly needed a screen repair later (not a compelling task at the time since the spare part has to be likewise imported AND paid through the nose for because our country taxes any foreign purchases above $25), but I was already invested enough in the new backlog to overcome my bias against the notably less portable and comparatively unwieldy laptops. The rest is history.

Sorry to blabber to you so much about it, on a console blog at that.😅

@nhSnork lol it's alright. I've never really been into portable gaming until I got a Switch. I had a DSi once, but i rarely ever played it. The only reason i had it was because my mom brought it home from where she worked.

She used to work at a convenience store. One day, some kid and his mom came into the store and the kid had the DSi with them. Apparently the kid laid it down and forgot about it, so one of the store employees put it in the office for about a week in case the kid came back looking for it, which they never did, so management let my mom bring it home to me.

My niece and nephews played it more than I did and they ended up leaving it outside where it got rained on. I believe I still have one of the games, but I can't remember what it's called.

This game was very popular when it got released and back then, and I secretly wanted this on Switch (alongside Hellblade) ever since 2018. It's both amusing and epic to see apparently impossible dreams becoming true. TYSM Saber!

@TheJamesHollan a sad fate. (T.T)7 But at least it provided its share of fun.

If Saber can port The Witcher 3 and all of its DLC to Switch, I have no doubt they can pull this off. Will it look good compared to the original? Hell no. Compared to the other consoles and PC, Witcher 3 on Switch looks terrible. But for Switch? Oh my god, it’s amazing. And I can testify to its playability. I beat the entire game, and it was amazing. So I can’t wait to see how much they can push the Switch to run this masterpiece of a game.