What if Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom performance is as bad as Pokémon?

Pokémon Legends: Arseus, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Nintendo Switch Sports, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Splatoon 3, Bayonetta 3, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet … All of these are unconditional successes from Nintendo’s point of view. Heck, Splatoon 3, and the Pokémon games were all record-breakers, and given how long Nintendo has been in this business, their records go back a long way.

The Nintendo Switch is getting older, something that has become obvious this year. It’s approaching its sixth anniversary, and it wasn’t up to date graphics-wise when it was brand new. Bayonetta 3 was well received by critics but there was much talk about how it didn’t work on Switch.

Then came Pokemon Scarlett, Violet, and where performance is all that anyone cares about, so much so that people are asking to be reimbursed. This seems a little excessive, but it is because the ideas that game developers have seemed to be pushing against what the Switch can do.

I am now asking the question: What about Kingdom Tears. Breath Of The Wild’s performance was not always as good, especially in terms frame rate. I wonder how Kingdom Tears would perform in this situation. What if kingdom tea performed as well or worse?

There are many theories as to how Tears Of The Kingdom will be Nintendo’s last big Switch title. It is possible that it will be upgraded to work with Switch 2, but not as much evidence as is reasonably possible. As with most things, it is best to go with the simplest explanation.

In this instance, the game will look exactly like Breath of The Wild except that it performs poorly because they are trying to do more.

The problem with Nintendo is its inability to find the right technology. But this technology is the heart of what makes Nintendo successful, independent, and you can’t really distinguish the two. Although some Nintendo fans may want to publish Nintendo games on the PlayStation 5 but they would need to switch companies to do so, I’m not so sure about the quality of their games.

However, I confidently predict that if Tears Of The Kingdom performs more like Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, rather than the 60fps next-gen games that fans hope for, we’ll see a lot of tantrums. There is plenty of angry rhetoric.

Nintendo will not care if it sells. But I am afraid that the well has already been poisoned. All future Switch games will be obsessed with their graphics, regardless of how good they play.

You would think that Nintendo fans would understand which one is the most important. But maybe they’re only partially right and that the Switch is simply too old to do this kind of thing.

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