The Kingdom Hearts Collection costs $90 for cloud access - but how well does it work?
Just how good is cloud gaming on Nintendo Switch?
Is the visual quality and input lag good enough to make this work?
Does the concept even work for a system designed around take-anywhere portability?
We tested them all and the results are mixed to say the least.
Both myself and John Linneman tested these titles individually.
I used a 65Mbps BT fibre connection along with the mega-bandwidth leased line at Eurogamer HQ.
For his part, John utilised his existing 100Mbps home connection.
Kingdom Hearts 3 suffers especially for this.
It seems to vary per game, but at the nuts-and-bolts level, it acquits itself pretty well.
That’s with a wired Ethernet connection - so a best-case scenario.
Unfortunately - and crucially for a cloud system - the Switch’s WiFi receiver isn’t great.
Gaming via WiFi adds 30-50ms of extra lag, depending on range.
At this point, we’re hitting end-to-end lag in the region of 200ms - Kinect territory.
However, the port of Control isn’t bad.
With a 720p60 target the performance mode is also interesting, but frame-rates seem to be lower than expected.
First of all, there’s the idea that compromised experiences are being sold at so high a price.
Secondly, the execution seems alien to the Switch concept itself.
This brilliant mobile system is no longer particularly mobile when such close proximity to a router is required.
