Super Mario Odyssey on Switch: The Complete Tech Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2017
- Super Mario Odyssey pushes Switch really hard, with fascinating techniques in ensuring great visuals and performance in both docked and handheld configurations. John has the complete breakdown.
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when the framerate drop is only down to 58-57 fps, that is a miracle in itself
Willy Yappy 54 is the worst I saw (at the shot going towards New Donk City)
If it was an Xbox one X game with the same dips sony fanboys would call it Xbox weak
honestly, with my current PC, I will be very happy with 54 fps
I remember watching the analysis of Xenoblade Chronicles X, it dipped worse, less than 30fps sometimes, it's nice to see Mario Odyssey manage to hold such stable framerate while looking that good
X was 30 fps only tho. And the drops were like 2-4 frames at most
To tell the truth, I'm perfectly fine with lower resolution if I'll get 60 fps. I'm glad Nintendo took it that way, and I hope more games in the future have the same option Tomb Raider or FE Warriors have - to choose between resolution or framerate.
Pan Rysownik Switch has MUCH more effective CPU cores than those crappy plastic boxes. If I were to buy any console, it would be the Switch (and I might once I have money saved up again - just bought my PC upgrade to the 8700k!) - Once i DO own a Switch, it will be used without any dock 99.99% of the time! Okay - maybe if friends come over for party type games, it might be closer to 98% of the time! I really cannot believe how well Nintendo makes the Tegra X1 - in a DOWNCLOCKED state, run so damned good! And for the 7" IPS screen - 720p is indeed a good resolution, especially when all models and textures are renderd at or above that native 1280x720 resolution, and DOUBLY so if Nintendo is able to program in advanced post process Anti-Alaising such as Temporal AA or even better still, Temporal Super Sample AA!
I need to watch the video Digital Foundry did with DOOM on the Switch!
that´s exactly what i whoud ask them too
Hope they'd upgrade Zelda Breath Of the wild to support 60fps
Tippier Sky impossible zelda is big openworld i'dont even think than jaguar can do that in 60fps.
Pan Rysownik " have to choose" so you are saying options are a bad thing?? Lmao, clown music bro
"It's one of the most inspired Mario game in years and it runs like a dream"... ok, I'm sold.
The amount of work that Nintendo put on this game to achieve the 60fps mark without many compromises is remarkable.
mata-pombos many compromises but ok
And it does fluctuate to 30fps
mata-pombos many many compromises
Its called Nintendo Magic.
No, not many compromises, because they know where to make them, by example, to put distant characters in low res is pretty smart and nobody need the high res if they are far from the camera. The result is your eye watch the same game but the hardware struggle with less information.
This looks phenomenal. Congratulations Switch owners, and Nintendo on the rave reviews! It makes me genuinely happy to see Nintendo succeed!
I havent owned a nintendo console since the N64. I am always happy when nintendo succeeds. This looks fun!
Don't worry you probably will in about 6 months. Peeps go hard on Nintendo emulation. I bought and played through and loved the last big 3d mario game (SM 3D World) exclusively on my PC. Not only did it run flawlessly on Cemu but it also looked better than it ever could on Wiiu w/ the res jacked up from 720 to 1440p!
what a nice comment to leave
God it's nice to see level headedness and good will between gamers of different platforms.
iNowi Emulation is not illegal, pirating games is.
This game is unreal. I cannot believe its running on a tablet. I'm 38 and have owned so many systems I can't even remember. The Switch might end up being my favorite system of all time.
It is already mine ❤️
And what do you think about the switch now, almost 5 years later?
@@orkanes2 don't use it much anymore. Have a steam deck now.
I remember having GBA and dreaming about playing a portable 3D Mario.
@@orkanes2recent switch owner here, it is definitely still impressive, especially in portable oled mode. Also love the fact that you can use the joycons separately, which is my fav way to play ✌️
Ultimately the switch is a statement of Gameplay>Graphics. But what nintendo shows is that design>graphics too.
Its something consoles have needed. The “console wars” have been freaking out over graphics for way too long when in reality they dont matter anymore. The charm is gone. EA can pump billions of dollars into battlefront2(2017) and make it the most beautiful game ever, but no time was spent on the gameplay.
Nintendo puts time into making the gameplay fun and enjoyable while making everything designed well too.
Im glad that the general mass of gamers now wont give shitty games with pretty graphics a pass now, and good games can be recognized for what they are, good games.
97 metacritic score. Another masterpiece for Nintendo. Game is gorgeous. When was the last time a console got 2 masterpieces, and GOTY possible winners in its first year?
Is it a console now? Nintendo guys tell me its a handheld when it suits them. Either way it doesn't matter, Nintendo has GOTY in the bag.
PC GameBoy until Jimquisition post his review.
Handhelds are also consoles. When in doubt, use a dictionary.
+DevilBatGhost
Jim has stopped giving scores in his reviews.
You mean two in 8 months and the year is not over, Xenoblade Cronicles 2 hits in December, another Nintendo masterpiece.
You know a game is big when you go to thw grocery store and see its on cereal boxes.
thebahooplamaster Dude I actually won a Switch with Super Mario Odyssey from a box of Honeycombs cereal. It's coming in like December or January
Kidboy A.G. Geez man, that's amazing. Congrats!
or its for children
Para Soul and pokemon isn't ? Lol
Kidboy A.G. ik what you're talking about I tried it didn't win lucky you
Nintendo once again the masters of optimization, loading times and frame rates
pinkspider28 let's not forget compression.
Right because zelda was so optimized
Bryan Ranner So you could optimize that game better than them? Who can? Besides what other games can run in almost tablet hardware that are open world games with insane amounts of physics besides Botw? None.
also the switch version was a PORT, and the wii U was trash in power in more ways then one for a 8th gen console.
13.4 GB for an open world game is pretty good in 2017.
Some nice geometry and textures, I’m also happy with the resolution in home console mode, and 60 FPS 😍
To summarize - Odyssey doesn't the graphics of a PS4 Pro game, but it looks good enough to be the best game of the year!
Anime Games Online ps4pro doesn't even do ps4pro graphics.
A game doesn't need to have ultra high quality settings to get to be the game of the year... it only needs to be fun, creative, have a nice replay factor, and deliver proper smoothness...
>People who care more about pixels on a screen than playing the actual game.
To be fair who really is expecting PS4 Pro visuals from a hybrid console that is less powerful than the base X1 model.
No I said what I meant, the Switch is less powerful than the original Xbox One, so I sure hope no one was expecting PS4 or Pro level visuals out of the box, no matter who is making the games. Nintendo makes great games no matter the hardware so graphics should not even be the issue. Mario no doubt is a great game.
Awesome work as always Digital Foundry. Very much looking forward to this.
"switch doesnt have any games"
two GOTY contenders in launch year alone. yeah sure
It haves doom now... hahaha it has a lot of great aaa games.
BlindCat I mean 2 games getting goty doesn't mean it has a lot of games but it does anyway so lol
@@ad1onOW do you still think the same two years later?
@@teacherfromthejungles6671 yes
@@aber1812 no u
Whoa, this game uses so many incredible tricks I absolutely love it! Like the animation losing speed slowly as you move further away, that’s brilliant. And I’d never guess that Mario Odyssey was running in sub-1080p, since it looks STUNNING. Also, the crazy system it uses in portable mode is amazing! It’s basically adaptive resolution, but vertically INTERLACED. That’s so cool, I never thought we’d see interlacing make a return in 2017 or whenever it came out.
This and legend of Zelda breath of the wild are masterpiece's. In my opinion the best value for money this generation goes to the Nintendo switch.
Emanuel Cardoso Horizon Zd wasn't a master piece imo.
yeah that's because Horizon was a master piece not a mater piece
Emanuel Cardoso Wake me up when another console comes along with two masterpieces in it’s launch year.
Emanuel Cardoso You do realise that the Switch just came out this year right? PS4 (another great console) has had 3-4 years to build it's library. The Switch just in single year has had Splatoon 2, Breath of the Wild, ARMS, Mario Rabbids (really underrated imo), Mario Oddessy and Xenoblade is coming in December. Octopath Traveller is coming next year. I've played the demo and it's fucking amazing! Then you have core Pokemon, Metroid Prime and Shin megami in development. Nintendo is absolutely killing it.
Best value for your money?.... Is that a joke.... the SWITCH hardware is so outdated and overpriced, It's far from giving anyone value .
All people care about is graphics....sad. Nintendo has 2 games out this year on an "inferior" system, both of which will be goty contenders, so clearly they are doing something right. Not to mention that same system is selling left and right. I have to laugh at the people commenting that weren't even alive back in the early 80s when Nintendo basically resurrected gaming back from the dead. So all these critics can thank them as they wouldn't be able to come on here and brag about their super, ultra high 300 frames per second $30,000 20k resoultion capable supercomputer, and how great it is while we play our lowly consoles, without Nintendo doing what they have done for the industry with their massive contributions. Instead these same people will criticize Mario or Zelda, calling them kids games or unoriginal, all while loading up the 30th version of the same COD game that's been out for 10 years....lol. sad, like I originally said
this looks fantastic
I said this about Sm4sh, and I'll say it again: When Nintendo's inferior hardware is giving us performance like this while the Xbox and PS4 struggle to hit performance targets, maybe it's time to rethink development priorities. Maybe the average customer cares more about performance than flashy effects and whatnot; the recent surge in PC gaming popularity would attest to that. Nintendo's got their priorities straight for once; if this and Spla2n are any indication, it might be like this for a while.
Comment of the year.
Except Nintendo are not inferior. They are using far superior hardware to any thing else. This is a handheld system that can be docked. This is obvious.
When Nintendo makes a game, they know their console inside and out to perfection and are often working with less powerful hardware. They're experts at optimization and making sacrifices in the least noticable spots.
Doesnt matter what sony, microsoft or nintendo do masses will play mobile games(sadly) and why you see nintendo and other companies make smartphone games for future proof even I hate to say this lol.
Except the world is done on a weaker scale, is it ugly no it's fine for the art of Mario universe but when he's riding the scooter through the city the graphics around him looks like that Spider-Man game on ps2
Excellent video. Thank you for the in-depth analysis it is always fascinating to see the tricks they use to reach 60fps and love how you point out things i would normally miss. Love your work!
I can’t believe how good this looks on the Switch , all AAA developers take note.
+Archivist42
I don't understand. Do you mean the graphics or the gameplay?
Salamander Pants sorry was a bit vague. What particularly impressed me is that the frame rate is 60 despite running on limited hardware thanks to the optimisations mentioned in the video. So if you’re given something as powerful as an Xbox one X or PS4 pro you have the potential to hit 60 frames on the vast majority of games if you are willing to make some intelligent visual compromises. This just represents my personal preference for frame rate over resolution / visual fidelity though
its not "limited hardware" when the game is designed around the hardware itself. lol
the fact that they had to make compromises shows that the hardware was limiting them. doesnt mean the hardware is bad though
Jerman Ramirez it’s definitely not bad. 1. It’s designed to be part mobile 2. Matches the console price exceptionally well
i can't wait for my copy to arrive tomorrow!
Plutonic Earth got mine today
steveothehulk damn u are lucky, have fun!
I woke up to a notification that my copy has shipped and that immediately made my day great lol
steveothehulk so lucky.
alfredo abreu everyone it is AWESOME!!! Believe the hype!! Iv been on it solid for 4 hrs and only barley scratched the surface it really takes real exploration to find the moons,
Absolutely loving it
Watching this video is hugely reassuring that Nintendo were able to make excellent choices of where to scale the game, especially in portable mode. It also should finally put paid to the people who thought "720p is not high enough" for the Switch screen. They knew exactly what they were doing when designing the Switch and made compromises in all the right places.
I'm still absolutely amazed at how a game engine is able to scale resolution and certain effect quality based on how much time it has to render the next frame. Just thinking about how complex that algorithm must be hurts my head. I think any developer attempting that deserves a lot more credit than they typically get.
nobody plays nintendo games for the graphical quality. they play for the experience.
dpanch_89 It was a thing before the Wii era.
well depends on what we define the graphical quality for. Just resolution? Just art style? A mix of resolution with the art style? If we go by Art Style, then yeah, a lot of people do play nintendo games for it too (but literally not the only reason). If we go by resolution, literally nobody in its right mind does, since is a well known fact nintendo games most of the time don't have the same resolution as the other consoles.
Um... Hi? I play for both...
you had the perfect opportunity for the best joke :(
I wish all gamers were like that…
So tired of people who think graphics is everything. What matters most is great gameplay. I have played games with great graphics, but they are boring as shit because the gameplay wasn't very good. I have a Nintendo switch, and I love it! I also have a pc that I mainly use for overwatch. All the games I have bought lately have been for my switch because its so damn fun to play games on.
jacob varns What are you talking about, this game looks gorgeous.
Balance is key. Too many focus on just one aspect of a game, perhaps to suit their own preference when one or more aspects of a game fall short, oh well, it is what it is.
My current GOTY is A Hat in Time, it's so damn fun to play and it does not kill your wallet.
Odyssey has excellent "graphics" and gameplay.
jacob varns people just don't understand that. Gameplay and frame rate makes a enjoyable game. Graphics are nice but kill almost all the cpu and frame rate.
Nintendo’s ability to consistently hit 60fps on weak hardware is legendary. Mario Galaxy ran at 60fps on the Wii. Smash Bros. Melee ran at 60fps. They somehow got Smash 3DS to run at 60fps.
Not anymore. Both Metroid and Kirby are graphically inferior to this and only run at 30 fps.
@@Megatrance9000 metroid dread? That runs at 60fps. It's only the cut scenes at 30.
@@Megatrance9000 Metroid Dread is 60fps, and Kirby is 30 but looks way better than Odyssey tbh.
@@ThomasVvV 3d World looks better than Odyssey
I love these videos, really great in depth discussion on the technical aspect of the game that regular people wouldn't really notice.
what is the song from the beginning and where can i listen to it???? (if it's not a full song, when does it play in the game?)
Looks great. Can't wait until midnight
This is how you optimize a game for inferior hardware. Bravo Nintendo.
Guitaripod yes
Or you could just not have inferior hardware
Aysei this comment is dumb...
Aysei You could not get inferior hardware but make games that run 30 FPS...
Btw, the hardware isn’t inferior but rather relevant. It may not have all the bells n whistles like the other two but then again those are “inferior” compared to PC which runs games the way they should. Destiny 2 is a prime example...
Didn't they use last gen Tegra to cut costs even there? Seriously, if they wanted, they could have made a stronger console while still keeping it portable. But profit margins were more important.
Digital foundry is a beast! Best analysis on the market hands down! I am from Brazil and already heard about this channel. This is the future ! Congrats DF team !👏👏 big fan from Brazil 🇧🇷
Just had it as a gift from my sister and boy we’re having a blast with the game. Playing it while on a plane was absolutely fun
damn the salt in the comments is real, if you hate nintendo so much just don't buy their products and don't react on videos related to them.
also people keep forgetting that the switch is a PORTABLE console. also framerate>>>>>>resolution.
ummmm Nintendo is calling it a console for some odd reason
I mostly see fanboy bragging about how much better their product is than I do the angry commenters
Donald Wilson im pretty sure they said "hybrid" console because it does have a official "handheld" mode name.
Donald Wilson it is a console. Portable consoles are consoles. If you can plug it to a TV or other display, it's a console! Look up the definition...
Plutonic Earth enough with the salt thing already. Every nintendo fanboy uses it
These toxic comments tho
Actually, the comments are pretty friendly for once. Those comment complaining about comments, though...
“If we mention how under powered the switch is for the millionth time maybe someone will finally care!”
+ mark grayson -- I agree, like comment by +CabinDoor.
This video has little to no console War talk compared to other digital Foundry videos
Fantastic analysis. Thanks! I cannot wait for this game. ONE MORE DAY!
Fantastic, I'm even more excited to play now!
*i wish i had nintendo switch rn*
Same, problem is that it costs 400 euro with a ineygame in my country. Bit expensive
When you get a job, you can eventually afford a Switch.
Yeah I got a job, fast food cleaning, and three weeks later I had 500$ plus a nintendo switch and Zelda BOTW. I'm so happy !
Since when was the Switch specifically aimed for kids lol.
PS4, Xbox One and PC also have kids playing on them... also I don't get your second point.
Why do I watch these videos? Playing at home its like WOW this game looks amazing! Watching digital foundry its like, "if you pause the game and zoom in you can clearly see the visual flaws... this information is never making any game more enjoyable.
It doesn't bother me. Maybe I have the rare ability to stop giving a shit. The first time I hooked up Zelda to a 1200p monitor, I realised how blurry it was because the game renders in 900p. After a minute, I just shrugged my shoulders and went along enjoying the game.
Vaibhav Shah
I've got BotW on Wii U first so it's 720p. Later, I got a Nintendo Switch that was 900p. I notice the difference in resolution. It's kinda silly to say but it felt like pixel art in the Wii U version compared to the Switch lol
Winter K Really? I find it interesting and if you don't notice the small compromises then that's a testament to the product itself!
Holy crap I was just thinking the same thing! This channel should be call "How to divert your focus from enjoying your hobby to using nonsensical tools to criticize everything about it." I don't play any game at 50x speed and 800% zoom and pixel count to validate my purchase. If I can't clearly see the visual flaws or stuttering frame rate during NORMAL gameplay, then the video designed pick apart our hobby is bull$@^. If I can't see the difference between 900p vs 1080p unless the onscreen graph tells me there is a difference, it probably doesn't matter whether I buy 'game x' on xbox one, pc, ps4, or switch. Every system has merits and usually resolution/framerate is so close between them that it doesn't matter at all. Xbox One has great backward compatibility, PS4 has great 3rd party exclusive support, Switch has great 1st party exclusive support, and PC has great multiplatorm scalability, Windows/Xbox crossbuy, and Steam sales.
You don't have to watch digital foundry to know that the game doesn't look very good, the gameplay is amazing tho
Fantastic video John.
Awesome video man! As a tech focused game designer I love this kind of stuff and makes me want more! :D
This is set to be the GOTY. And there are pissed off fanboys who keeps bashing Switch about its power.
Ayush Pandey
This or Zelda. I think this may leave a more lasting impact on its franchise, but Zelda will leave more of an impact on the industry.
Emanuel Cardoso get your copy paste keyboard warrior ass out of here smh
Jun Oda
Umm, i f you're going by USD you're $100 off from the price of the Switch. The Switch is $300 and, if you want the frankly unnessicary Pro Controller, that is $70. So, in total, your estimate is nintey dollars off. Take another crack at it, maybe get your facts straight this time.
Ayush Pandey I'm seeing ZERO power here.
Jun Oda
And also, the Wii U, while being far, *far* less powerful than PS4 or Xbox One, was still more powerful than last gen consoles. Your entre statment is riddled with holes.
Imagine running this at 4K... would be so beautiful as its such a stylized game.
I run this on my PC with yuzu at 4K and it really is stunning. I hope you can get to play it as well. 💜
Looks like a lot of hard work went into this game. Impressive what they were able to do on limited specs.
Can’t wait to play this, looks incredible
Its a really good game
A game doesn’t need the best graphics to be good and this certainly shows that
This is an amazing video. Great watch.
Looks astonishing, all the little touches too... A great piece of software
cant wait to see the speedruns of this game
How old are you?
Who needs an Xbox One X when you got games like this.
sike
Good point.
I still need one, but for completely different reasons. Feels good to own every major platform. ;)
its called netflix console for a reason LUL
I love John's reviews
hey digital foundry, as always this is a perfect rundown of all the features of the game from a technical standpoint, if i may add a suggestion, i would like to ask you guys to also take temperature test of the switch hardware during gameplay, as you say for example that this game pushes the switch hardware to its limits, i would also like to know how the switch operates in terms of how hot it can get, of course this suggestion would only apply to switch games, but reggardless, your content is always highest quality
Those 2D sections of this game are the best part.
Pre purchased and pre loaded ready for midnight to strike. My body is Reggie.
Great video. How do you run your framerate test in portable mode?
Come on nintendo, Just make Oddesey bundle deal already!.....
Edit: Looked it up, gonna pick up one soon :)
I think they have one.
There is one in Germany. You guys (from wherever you are) not getting one?
Classic. I saw that in the past in lot of South American and in Latin American countries. Somebody can't math.
Don't get it unless you want those red joycons. Get the switch console itself with a physical copy of Odyssey. That bundle comes with a digital copy, which is a joke imo.
Gorgeous Gremac they have one but you don't save anything.
This game benefits more from frame rate than resolution, so I'm glad Nintendo made the right choice on that, and with the huge success of Odyssey, the may even be encouraged to patch it up to full-time 900p.
thank you for not showing any spoilers :)
Great video tho, the Switch is being really tested this year and so far it seems like the hardware is not only capable but flexinble as well, cant wait to see what they can do with this little beast!
Despite the limitations, Mario Odyssey is a beautiful game, and could very well be my favorite game of the year. I'd much rather have 60fps than 1080p anyway.
1080 on a 720 display? 🤔
@@mpforeverunlimited its possible what do you mean
I keep laughing my ass off at Xbox fanboys, they have such a powerful platform but the great games can only be found on Switch, 3ds and Ps4 Lmao
Hugo Azevedo True, but personally I believe that everybody finds their own likeness to each consoles. I play PC and I'm alright with that, I don't feel like I'm missing out so that's probably what a lot of gamers are like.
Dwevy a lot has to do with what you grew up with. I started gaming on the NES. That doesn't mean I don't like PlayStation because I have one too but when it comes to my favourite company Nintendo all the way. My daughters brother just got an Xbox one for roblox lol. Roblox!!! Kind of a waste thank god it wasn't the Xbox one x lol
The game does look beautiful imo. I love the designs and close up a lot of textures are really nice. The very rare framedrops do not matter that much, since they're so rare.
Beautiful game imo. :]
Awesome! you guys should do a DF Retro analysis of Super Mario Galaxy for it's 10th anniversary!
Really enjoying the Nintendo focused content, DF. Keep it up.
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Hey Prince Dizzy!
I love this meme.
Constantine I love you baby
i wonder if dizzy is ever coming back,i haven't seen him for months. maybe he changed his name
Nintendo has made all right choices here wish more developers chose 60fps
Anon 4ever It's a great looking game tho, look at Marios model, you can see the details in his overalls
I need to play this through again
I remember when I found out that the mario 3d model in Mario 64 is as much as 1500 polygons when you're standing still, but something like 700 when you're moving.
Amazingly I had never actually noticed this in gameplay even once.
It's quite impressive what you can get away with sometimes in terms of dynamically messing with image quality.
Then again with all the excessive (for a console made in 1996 anyway) graphical effects and overkill rendering accuracy the default n64 GPU microcode was using, it could only manage 150,000 polygons or so.
(by contrast estimates from homebrew sources suggest if it was rendering polygons the way the Playstation did, it would spit out a good 750,000 of them. Just shows you how much grunt it takes to do fully perspective correct bilinear filtered texture mapping, antialiasing, and environment mapping in realtime - all that stuff together drops raw performance by a factor of 5. It also shows just how much of a raw power advantage that thing really had over the Playstation - it's a good 3 times as powerful, give or take.)
I know one of the most promising techniques for VR in the long-term is foveated rendering, but it kinda doesn't work unless you have reliable eye tracking.
Foveated rendering works on the fact that your eye only sees in high detail with the fovea, which spans just 3 to 5 degrees.
(you can use this technique on a monitor as well, if you have eye tracking, but it just fundamentally makes more sense in VR)
Yet in VR the field of view of even current headsets is as much as 110 degrees (and future headsets could get to 200+)
So... What happens when you can do eye tracking? Well, you know where the eye is pointing, so you know where the fovea is in relation to the screen.
So... You can get away with rendering that 5 degree area at full resolution and framerate, a 30 degree area around that at half the resolution, and the remainder at quarter the resolution and half the framerate.
Needless to say the performance improvement you get from this is absurdly huge.
And it has a side benefit - the performance gains get better at higher resolution.
at 1080p equivalent the technique only gets you about a 50% improvement in performance.
But at 8 or 16k (resolutions which you would need in VR ultimately to get it looking like 'reality'), the performance gain can be something absurd like 15-25 times faster, simply because you're barely rendering anything at all at full detail except where the player is looking.
An obvious downside of this technique is if you have an audience, you either need to track their eyes as well, but this reduces your performance gains and becomes a bit unreasonable if the audience is more than one or two people...
Or, the audience can see straight through the illusion, and spot just how low quality most of the picture actually is.
That's one of the more promising things long-term, but it it just one of many examples of this kind of stuff that you can get away with.
Clearly shadow warrior was using a variant of this technique without the eye tracking - which, while not completely useless, is however WAY more obvious...
Can you make Switch game test with HDMI mCable ?
Waiting for a switch price drop then I’m picking this bad boy up asap!
Artistically this looks visually pleasing.
great technical analysis of a great game.
Not trying to start Console boy War shit, but this is what we are supposed to look forward to in a console and its exclusives. Not an 3rd party unrealistic 4K 30fps med to low settings. 1080p High to ultra 60Fps is way better. Shit I will take 720 as long as its 60fps. New exclsuives should focus on quality of Gameplay. I feel like a lot of Consoles and Gamers are losing sight of that. All to argue opinions.
id even prefer 600p as long as its 60fps
Samster Birdies
Exactly man!
Anon 4ever
Yeah I know sir Lol
I'm just saying Nintendo is stepping their game up in the right places compared to Microsoft. Especially after the disastor that was the Wii U.
Those shadows gave me a SKYRIM vibe...
Texugo Smith Bro, I’ve played so much of the game I’m kinda burnt out with it. I’ll revisit a couple of years from now if we don’t get another Elder Scrolls games.
The terrain gave me a OBLIVION vibe.... So the shadows are an obvious highlight ;)
Super Mario Odyssey is the prettiest game ive every seen and im not talking purely resolution but the beauty and the color and the wacky funny and everything pops its so amazing
Great stuff all around. I love the game and love the art style. In future (if not now), this will be a blast to play at 4k@60 on an emulator.
It would be amazing if this video got zero dislikes
pinkspider28 it's just a number on a screen. Meaningless comment.
pinkspider28 only in a world without conflict would a DF video have 0 dislikes
pinkspider28 lol you're so insecure with dislike wow
pinkspider28 This is youtube and the internet. A video of a laughing baby would get dislikes!
I got a Mario odyssey trailer on the video xD
This game was such a masterpiece. This and Galaxy 1 are some of the finest games ever made
Do you guys plan to review the Marsille HDMI gaming edition AA cable?
And yet Pokemon doesn't care about any of that...so sad.
Nintendo is still delivering 60fps in most (if not all) of this games. Excelent. This game is one of the reasons to buy a switch instead of a PS4 or XBOX ONE which i'm not really interested.
Brilliant video.
Here’s a brief explanation on how mario knows when to move his head to look at things
Mario’s head turns to the nearest “point of interest”, these points of interest are only placed on things that you can interact with, hence why mario doesn’t turn his head to look at buildings, he can’t interact with them. So he doesn’t turn his head
Hands down the best Mario game ever taking the crown from Mario galaxy!
I said I'd never get a switch, then Nintendo drop Mario odyssey. Then i just had 2 have it!!!This games a masterpiece.
Except the switch should be compared to a PlayStation 2 or an original Xbox. That's how far behind Nintendo his.
Br page Isn’t the Switch just under the base Xbox One in terms of power? Not exactly a technological powerhouse but to compare it to the PS2 and og Xbox? Come on now.
to people who is trying to shit on the game's graphic, ironically can't find jack shit of difference between resolution either docked and portable, unless pointed by DF XD
Thanks for mostly using scenes and levels that werent spoilers even if its a few hours untill I can play
This reminds me to the ps2 era when the developers actually made some effort to achieve the best of the plataform and create a unique experience with what they had. Also the difference between this and Destiny 2, while the second one has much more configurations options and Mario being much more modest, the originality and variety of the last one is a joy to see these days.
"Pushes the Switch to its absolute max."
Please name one game ever made within the first year of a console's life that maxed the console out. Oh wait, it hasn't ever happened. Switch isn't maxed out.
Well, if the Switch is so underpowered, then it could happen.
AesirCorporation The Wii was way more underpowered compared to PS3 than Switch is to PS4, and yet, the last games on Wii looked way better than the first games.
It has NEVER happened in any console in the entire history of gaming. Mario Odyssey does NOT push the Switch to its max.
garvensman How much more you think they are gonna get out of a handheld. Id say it will be minimal at best. Its never gonna run a Zelda or Mario at 1080p 60fps. Its underpowered for a home console, but fine for a portable handheld if that's your thing.
Digital Foundry says that like it's there catchphrase or company motto. Don't read too much into it. With all the APIs and graphics engines that the Switch or any new console can use, Digital Foundry doesn't have enough information in 7 months of game releases to have a clue what the Switch's max is. You'll probably here that again with Doom, then again with Xenoblade 2, then 20 times around E3 next year. They have no clue.
whatever you say
Back when Switch games actually ran smoothly and looked beautiful, and a drop to 55 FPS was the worst of it.
Nowdays it's all 480p 20 FPS crap, and people insist on blaming the hardware.
But its really the hardware fault now we are in the next gen the switch is still a little bit over the ps3 in power it’s Nintendo fault for not wanting to do a switch pro or something like that
I am playing the game for the first time years after the release. I did find areas where the framerate drops pretty considerably and the animation gets choppy, but luckily it's probably less than 2% of the time. One example that comes to mind is on top of the Inverted Pyramid, I did a ground-pound for a Moon that shook up all the bricks and the framerate dropped to what appeared to be below 30 FPS. In other words, it looked like a 30-FPS game that had a drop in its framerate.
Dynamic resolution is a game changer, it allows you to keep a high fidelity when you can affort it without losing fluidity in heavy scene. It's good to see nintendo making the right choice and showing 3rd party developer the possibility of this tiny yet impressive little machine!
I got the game early and I'm about 70% done and I can atone that the game is amazing it's the best Mario to date.
Walther Penne the game doesn't come out till tomorrow but I work at Walmart and we have had copy's in the back since Tuesday.
People are silly.
From what I’ve gathered, if you just want to beat the game, nothing else, you can blast through it in around 10 hours. If you want to get a little more, be prepared for at least 50 hours!
+Walther Penne Name 1 other mario game that goes for even 50 hours? You pay 10$ to go to the movies for a 2 hour experience yet can’t pay $50 for a 25-30 hour experience, ya daft.
What? Mario had momentum in 64! Everyone remembers running too fast, then not being able to slow down before we slid off a cliff....
Exactly. And I was looking at some of the SMO leaks and folks have argued that Mario's physics were worse in Odyssey than 64, for better or for worse.
@True Roman not a bad thing,64 speedruns wouldnt be so enjoyable otherwise
Great video
It reads your save and starts loading in the control info screen, and just present you the resume screen to confirm your intention to play and finishes to load the world, that's why the control info screen takes so long to go away with that little of informative text to give
man Nintendo is freaking crazy at optimizing. So happy I got a switch they seem to seriously care about gameplay more than visuals.
People are salty for Mario's success.
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I love this game. The biggest thing I notice is the quick load time during location changing. If you don't skip the cut scene of the Odyssey flying, it's covered up as a load screen. Skip the cut scene, you'll see a "pixeled" Odyssey traveling across a black screen. It's a neat addition to the game. Anyways, it's amazing Mario game. The game itself is short, but the postgame is even longer. If you want to enjoy the most out of the game, don't look up for any help to find the moon. It's better that you find out yourself.
I love it how in the beginning U guys point out the details like dirt coming off when mario gets wet or that he looks at things in the urban level :).
First was done in 1997 by Shadow Warrior
Second in 1996 in Resident Evil and Im not even sure if Alone in The Dark hasnt done it earlier.
GJ Nintendo ;).
first in 97 second in 96? xD