Video: Borderlands 3: Ultimate Edition Side-By-Side Comparison (Switch & PS5)

This actually seems to be a super impressive port for the system! The fact that Borderlands art style is so much better to being subject to downgrades makes this much more worthwhile as both a portable and home version. I'm thinking of picking it up but the EShop listing says that it requires an internet connection to play which feels odd. If anyone bought it please let me know if it can be played offline. That's the only thing that's holding me back from wanting to pick it up

@Fighting_Game_Loser It doesn’t need an internet connection to play, just update/hotfixes/shift codes.I’m playing offline just fine.

Game runs great! I’ve played this on PS4 Pro, Series X and now Switch. Gotta say I’m impressed and thoroughly happy with my purchase. Did experience a crash after putting it in sleep then trying to pick back up, but that happens with a lot of games on all platforms so not surprising.

The only real issue so far is it takes about 2 mins to load up to get to the main menu. But once there it’s quick and smooth to jumping in game and playing. Solid port! Noticed Saber was credited on boot screen, seriously master craftsmen in their specialty.

Edit - and in case anyone missed it, the total game size including all the dlc is 23.5. You can opt out of installing the dlc if you chose to save space. Nice touch there,

Just picked up my copy today. Will prob dive in tomorrow. Seen and heard nothing but good things on this port

It's actually really impressive how tight the shooting feels. The Switch port is very good.

This looks more like Borderlands 2 on Switch, and that’s perfectly okay. I’m impressed that they managed to pull this off.

My only complaint for the game is how the lines around weapons and hands are.. missing? The way this game is rendered a little differently on switch (lighting slightly clips often it looks like, ect.) might just influence that, maybe make it broken on this edition? Either that or the constant effort of keeping that effect on just takes too much out of the switch. That aside, looks nice!

Edit: looking back at it, the lines surrounding models are actually absent in the switch version (even for rocks and vehicles) so I guess thats just where that issue is most glaring. The textures do look like they still try to emulate/fake that those lines are still there though on higher-res textures. Its not much of an issue though. (and edit of the edit, actually lines are still present occasionally! Just the ones that are there are less visible due to them being thinner on switch and harder to see due to lower res. But still missing in some models/entire areas)

@Dm9982 did you download all of the language packs too to get 23.5?

I'm loving the gameplay and the port job is amazing. I'm just blown away that they can get this running decent on Switch with a ton of crap going on in an open world but Pokemon can't even maintain a framerate with nothing going on.

As for the game, the plot sucks and the game is constantly pushing an agenda that men stupid while women are da bestest Eva! And so many strong independent woahmans who don't need no mans! It's fun to blast away, but I'm tried of my games trying to teach me what I should believe.

Also I've found a few bugs, one is super serious. I reported them to the dev but they tried to get me to clear my cache on my switch, no joke.

Sleep crashing bug: Playing BL3 and putting the switch on standby for more than a few hours causes crashes 100% of the time. I tried clearing the sys cache (2k support), putting game on internal memory. I'm on an OLED with sys v16.1.0 and BL3 v1.0.1.

Also some other Switch bugs: The skags make sounds like they are next to me from far away. The same thing will happen with bad guys sometimes. With subtitles on and a cutscene the black background behind the sub stays on the screen also after the mission "Speak to Ellie" until next dialogue.

I posted these on the Borderlands Twitter as at minimum the crashing bug needs to be solved.

@Warioware mine is 18.9GB. But it looks like only 3.1GB is on the gamecard. 5.3GB is the update day one and dlc is 10.4GB without the languages pack. It's 23.5 if you download everything plus the language packs.

@Murkyelm lol, I didn't notice the lines being gone but you're right. It looks like some things have them. The switch probably just couldn't do the rendering. As those lines are present on all the other borderlands games on switch.

Also I've yet to be in a fight that tanks the fps to noticeable levels. The only time I was able to tank it was going super high on this mountain and then looking down into the valley which was pretty much the whole map and it still didn't chug but you could see the switch was struggling. The Witcher 3, Borderlands 3, No Mans Sky, DOOM, Zelda TotK! Just these five games make Gamefreak look like an indie studio with less than a years game development skill. Nintendo should be ashamed they've let them release games in these conditions and then not even fix them. 😤

Looks good and from performance footage I've seen, runs well for the most part too. This port is proof that with proper optimization, the Switch is far more capable than people give it credit for. Definitely getting this version eventually.

It's wild to me that the Switch is six plus years old now and some folks act like it's barely more powerful than the 3DS lol

Actually looks quite good for a Switch game. £50 is way too steep though. Maybe £25 and I'll think about it. I bought the PS5 version with all DLC for less than £15 so £50 for a far inferior version is a huge put off for me

@Dm9982 Oh perfect! Thank you for the clarification! I saw that it said Internet was required for some reason on the EShop but that felt weird so I had to do some digging first but wasn't able to find anything. Thank you very much for the help!

i dislike these multiplat comparisons because always clearly the ps5 is the more realistic and better version..hopefully with the switch 2 the playing field will be even closer..

@5th313ment I didn’t know that about the storyline. Only ever played 2 and the pre sequel. Might give this a miss.

@pjzx
Story is horrible but gameplay/mechanics are superior

I was interested to see the graphics comparison but have no interest in playing either version. It was given away for free last year via epic game store and I couldn't be bothered to download it.

This looks really good. I’ve just played tiny Tina’s on my steamdeck, and that crashed all the time. Constantly skipping frames and had to turn quit game and restart just to keep the game from slowing down after an hour of playing. Very impressed with bl2 on switch and will prob get this as well.

I prefer the style that was intended for the game. So it's most likely I will not get the Switch version.

One thing to note is that this game currently crashes quite a bit. It seems more likely to happen if you pause the game for a few minutes. Almost every time I left the room to get a drink or let the dog out, I came back to a “system error, software closed” message.

@5th313ment thanks for the heads up, sounds similar to Borderlands 2. I gave up on physical media a while ago, largely because of my nomadic lifestyle but also because most games tgese days requure you to download about 50% of their content anyway!

@Fighting_Game_Loser Np! It’s always a blast to play Borderlands in the palm of your hands. Now I can just pray Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands comes to Switch next to complete the collection.

@Warioware As some one else pointed out that 23.5 includes the language packs, but I did not download em. I think my file size is about 18-19gb total without the language packs.

The skills and gameplay on BL3 are def above the quality of BL2, and thank god no more Slag! But compared to BL2 the story is meh, the villains aren’t nearly as funny and bombastic as Handsome Jack. One thing to note, I only played BL3 originally up to the first dlc after it launched. At the time, when BL3 was vanilla, it paled in comparison to BL2 - but this was going to be a given due to just how much content BL2 had amassed by then. Although, Mayhem mode is the best thing the series could introduce, no more multiple slogs through story to max out chars, especially if you want to build more than one char. Never did get around to the dlc on BL3 or the state of the game now, so I’m looking forward to the changes the game has undergone since original launch.

Borderlands 3 is amazing.

@5th313ment I personally love the game, but I am surprised the Callisto twins are not both middle aged white males, spider man miles morales is the most egregious while still being an amazing game. I didn’t even think of this stuff until I had a son, and now I feel like this first generation American male is going to be taught by society that he’s evil and he should spend his life making up for it even tho he’s an innocent 3 year old boy. With an Irish dad and Israeli mom.

Looks good enough for me. Not a game I would do more than short play sessions or when traveling. I will wait on a sale though.

Definitely getting my physical copy right after Red Dead Redemption.

@Dm9982 thanks. Seems like this is a good port

@RubyCarbuncle you're kidding right? Plants in violet and scarlet? In BL3 yeah they cut the grass and such but it's already pushing crazy stuff. Have you not seen the world in the Witcher 3 or no mans sky?! And pokemon with its ps1 flowers and n64 trees? OK stan...

@Adol-Bannings oh they are being taught that but the tide is turning. Males are 4 to 1 conservative vs women today. It's racism pure and true and eventually it always comes to a head. I remember this streak of videos showing women with white baby boys saying how they were teaching them not to be evil (their words) and reading them these crazy sjw books. Is the wise nefarious words of WEF, "You'll own nothing and be happy." Lol

@Serpenterror don't bother about the physical as 85% of the game isn't on it. I always make a choice. If I can't play the cart without downloading then I don't buy physical as it's a waste. Otherwise it physical all day like the Witcher 3.

@DogDetective if you see my post above I noted this. It always happens when your switch goes to sleep. Please report it to 2k games, as I did, so they will fix it. This bug is the worst as the restart takes forever.

An impressive port, they managed to make it look significantly worse that BL2.

I understand that Switch is underpowered, but you can't tell me that necessitated the N64-level hand textures. And without the cellshaded lines, the graphics look just wrong.

@5th313ment I have been having it happen without my Switch even going to sleep. I did find, though, that so long as I don’t actually pause the game, I can leave my character idling and not have the game crash. There is just something in particular about pausing that crashes the game.

@DogDetective that's odd as that doesn't happen to me? Is your game on SD or internal memory? Version? Switch version?

@5th313ment perfect analisys.

@5th313ment Switch version, OLED model. I believe it is primarily on an SD card, although I think the save file is on the internal memory.

I actually liked the switch graphics better for the first minute of the video. I know the PS5 is "Better", but the switch just had a cool style.

But at the driving stuff around 4 and a half minutes, the ps5 is so much better (as it should be)

That's great to hear that it runs and looks great. I wish the game at hand was actually good. The humour in the borderlands games are so cringe.

@Zanzox thank you sir. Also I always forget to mention this but also the game is huge and it has to pull from a microSD which is slow as dirt. Which is why the game takes two minutes to almost start up as it loads everything it can into system memory and ram. It would be awesome if Nintendo kept SD cards but enabled the advanced pin features on ultra high speed bus (its a second row of pins on the microsd to enable high speeds). Otherwise with microSD you're using an almost twenty year old medium and speeds to go with it.

@DogDetective it could be your microSD card. Like I said above maybe your card is too slow. I have a 1TB but it's the fastest one they make. Try putting it on internal mem?