Image: Ubisoft Star Wars Outlaws launched for the Switch 2 last week, and if you’re still not sure whether or not to check it out, a demo is on the way. Following the release of a demo on other platforms earlier this year, Ubisoft has confirmed via the game’s “Switch 2 Release FAQ” that a demo will be available for …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube834k Following the release of Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2 last week, Ubisoft has now rolled out its first title update on this platform. This update has range of fixes including “clearer visuals when moving quickly through the world or using binoculars”, and UI updates and performance improvements. Here’s the …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube834k Star Wars Outlaws is out now on the Switch 2 (a fact you might have missed thanks to last week’s furore around Hollow Knight: Silksong) and now the tech experts over at Digital Foundry have provided their analysis of the game’s performance on Nintendo’s new hardware. Despite some concerns pre-launch, Outlaws …
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Just a few days after launch, Ubisoft has already come out with the first update for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Star Wars Outlaws. Various enhancements and fixes are included. Players will find clearer visuals when moving quickly through the world or using binoculars, user interface updates and performance improvements. The full rundown is as follows: Star Wars Outlaws …
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I played Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2 at PAX West last weekend, just days before it launched, and I couldn’t believe how bad it looked. Granted, I can be a bit of a graphics snob. I’m one of those people who gets a headache playing games at 30fps. But when I say Outlaw looks unbelievably bad, I don’t …
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Digital Foundry just delivered its latest technical analysis for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Star Wars Outlaws, which covers frame rate, resolution, and more. Overall, it looks like Ubisoft did an admirable job with the port. Although there were some cutbacks, performance is stable and we’re seeing thing like ray-tracing implemented. Here’s the full roundup of tidbits: – There …
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A video shows how different storage media can affect Mario Kart World load times. CD Projekt Red VP of Technology Charles Tremblay has alluded to this same challenge when talking about the Switch 2 port of Cyberpunk 2077. In a June interview with IGN, Tremblay said the data transfer speeds enabled by MicroSD Express were “great,” while streaming data from …
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A Ubisoft developer has explained why the physical Nintendo Switch 2 release of Star Wars Outlaws is a Game-Key Card, instead of having the full game on the cartridge. Game-Key Cards are Nintendo’s new branding for cartridges that still require the game to be downloaded from the Switch 2 online store before the game can be played. The cartridge doesn’t …
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Many of us have a few things to say about the Nintendo Switch 2‘s controversial game key cards, which don’t actually contain game data, and instead trigger a download from the Nintendo eShop when they are popped into the device. However, developer Rob Bantin, who is an audio architect on Ubisoft’s game engine Snowdrop, has revealed why the studio opted …
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Like many games, Star Wars Outlaws’ physical release on Nintendo Switch is a game-key card. But now we get to hear directly from a developer about why that ended up happening. Rob Bantin, the audio architect for Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine, recently spoke about the situation on social media. In one post, Bantin noted that the “engine relies heavily on disk …
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