DooM's Release Date for Nintendo Switch Confirmed
Doom on Switch. What a time to be alive!
Doom 2016 was the Shacknews Game of the Year, and we were ecstatic to hear that the game was coming to Nintendo Switch. Well prepare your butts, Shackers. id Software has announced that Doom's release date for Nintendo Switch will be November 10. They also announced that Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus will be releasing some time in 2018 for Nintendo's wildly successful console. Nintendo sat down with Hugo Martin and Marty Stratton for an interview about Doom on Switch. Please take a look.
In case you missed it, check out our massive Doom Select feature on the entire Doom franchise and check out episode 006 of the Shackcast that we dedicated to the news of DooM's Nintendo Switch release. What a time to be alive!
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replyAsif Khan posted a new article, DooM's Release Date for Nintendo Switch Confirmed
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They just couldn't resist doing it for Shacknews.
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I would pretty much ONLY play this in handheld mode since ialready have it on PC and PS4. Need to hear some impressions regarding playabilty with the controls and also performance.
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Not just a cancellation, but a hard cancellation. The hardest.
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the people that require 60FPS will not be buying this on switch, so it's an entirely new audience.
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Honestly I'm fine with that.. if you want 60fps play it on PC or a different console.
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Ok well they did the “re-engineered” levels thing (read: cut down) on the Atari Jaguar with the original and everyone hated it. And they did the same thing with DOOM 3 on the Xbox and everyone hated it.
It’s better to have the full experience at a cost of frame rate and fidelity than nothing at all. It’s not like it hasn’t had a solid year and a half out there with the best possible experience (a capable PC).
Honestly the idea of a portable version of DOOM with physical controls is just awesome to me.
Plus DOOM coming to unconventional hardware is a tradition. They got the original running on the Super Nintendo for fucks sake.-
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No he's saying "portable" usually involves a virtual controller on a phone or tablet.
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Yeah with the power of the iPhone 8 or X hardware I bet it could run a 60fps pixel perfect version of DOOM if the work was done to make it happen. But you’d either need some awkward Bluetooth controller solution or you’d use the controls on the screen and I just don’t think it would work.
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30fps is better than a hard cancellation by any stretch of the imagination. It particularly sucks for DooM but it's also not the end of the world here.
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Crank up the motion blur, ensure a constant 33.33ms frame time and it'd actually pretty decent for a small handheld screen. Despite being billed as a fast action shooter, Doom is really not that fast until you get some upgrades that boost your movement speed after glory kills and such, and those buffs are brief.
30fps is fine for single player game like that on the go, 60 would be amazing but still impressive it works at all.
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Its not ideal. I wonder what they would have gotten if they'd pulled back the visual effects like depth of field and everything.
This would probably have been a lot of work to implement but a 30fps mode with all the visual bells and whistles on and a 60fps mode with stripped down graphics would have been cool (if that's possible by stripping things back ofc) -
When I got my Vega 56 I saw that I could do downsampling from 5K so obviously I tried it with Doom. 30 fps at max settings!
I agree that's just shit but there are degrees of shittiness. They did the input right so it's not tied to fps, it looked visually bad to me but I could still play it quite well, console players will probably think nothing of it.
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Sadly no
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Interesting, the same studio doing the port is also porting Rocket League: http://www.panicbuttongames.com/games.php
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This better have a red cartridge for me to lick.
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