Future-looking hardware, impressive Nintendo games, solid third party support - this looks like a winner.
And by and large, we like what we see.
That looks like a system seller, right there.
Viewing angles are also excellent at even the extremes.
Unfortunately, the nature of Nintendo’s filming guidelines and conditions on site made a proper filmed comparison challenging.
The grip on the console is also better.
Model quality and animations are significantly higher too, with a style much closer to the recent Mario movie.
In performance terms, everything we played rolled out at a locked 60 frames per second.
This description may seem a little dry, because Nintendo delivers joy in spades with this game.
It looks beautiful, it’s super-smooth and it oozes character in every moment.
you could count us among this number.
In both cases, the evidence does suggest that the game is indeed running locked.
But this wasn’t living room conditions: table-top Switch 2 mouse controls was also part of the experience.
Secondly, the ergonomics of the mouse controls are not what we’d expected.
for the morph ball marble madness segments).
The final point I wanted to add is that we noticed a slight degree of mouse lag.
There are mouse sensitivity parameters though, which is certainly useful.
Once you get to the peak, a giant meteor suddenly crashes into the top of the city.
One highlight is Donkey Kong’s design.
His model is also covered in feather-like hair cards.
Also, there seem to be different frame-rates ingameplay.The target is 60fps, but there are noticeable drops.
The physics based destruction is interesting.
Donkey Kong Banaza is almost proud of how many particles it’s throwing around, often filling the screen.
It’s like a magic trick.
As a result there’s some slight flicker/dithering to environmental shadows, and ambient shade around hair.
We’ll be sure to report back once we have more information.
It is functionally 30fps in what should be the most taxing aspect of the game.
This was located in the over-18s segregated booth alongside Cyberpunk 2077.
And after replaying that, it was time to go.
