Nintendo Switch games are criticized for 24fps
Nintendo Switch has some of the best and most surprising games available. You can play them on TV, or even on the move.
It’s enough to play games like The Witcher, Skyrim, and No Man’s Sky, on the Switch, to realize that Nintendo’s hybrid console is a powerful machine, and can handle even the most demanding titles, such as the Xenoblade Chronicles and The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. It’s perhaps for this reason that it is so surprising that the port of a game that was released yesterday, 4 May 2019, runs at an abysmal 24 fps.
According to GamesRadar+ ‘s report, the game is The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan, a survival horror title by Supermassive Games. Nintendo thought gamers would be unhappy with the frame rate if it was not made clear. This is why there’s a disclaimer on its official eShop.
Fair enough, Switch games don’t always have the best frame rates. The console isn’t as powerful, so a target of 30fps isn’t unusual for certain titles. However, actively targeting 24fps is so oddly specific, and really raises some question marks about what was going on behind the scenes on this port. Perhaps the decision was made to make it feel more like a film, a medium where 24fps is the standard. Or maybe the devs were just hoping to get some gamers curious enough to see what it runs like by buying it? The joke’s on them, I don’t have the guts to sit through a horror game to find out.
