StifledSilence

I don’t think these cloud ports are as cost effective as you think. They still need time and employees to work on them because they are still being customized/optimized to work on Switch hardware (barely if you’re the new Guardians game). And they need servers to constantly have the game available for streaming instead of uploading a file to the eshop for Nintendo’s servers to hold. The only saved cost is manufacturing cartridges, but that problem is solved by just doing eshop only.

And anyway, Doom Eternal definitely has a lot more going on than corridors. Outdoor sequences, platforming, huge buildings with enemies everywhere, etc. Definitely wasn’t an easy port.

@Xansies I don’t think the Switch is too weak to run games that have been put on the cloud. It certainly isn’t too weak to run decades old Kingdom Hearts games that Squeenix wants to put on the cloud. Decisions like that are pure laziness. If a studio is talented enough to get something like Doom Eternal not just running on the Switch, but running well, then other studios need to get on their level.

Any devs involved in those “cloud ports” are exceptionally lazy.

Sakurai should personally oversee the Smash 64 emulation and added online mode so they don’t screw it up.

2008, when Nintendo hit rock bottom: the Wii Music presentation.