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Compared to the original “paper RPG” on the Nintendo GameCube, the Nintendo Switch version will not show such a frame rate, which sounds like an extremely unusual decision, since the Switch can be called a stronger platform.
The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will not run at 60 FPS. On the GameCube, this was fixed. Why this shift? It was probably because developers would prefer something else instead of frame rate and performance. Abebe Tinari, the director of Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, speculated about this on Twitter. According to him, his team planned for a long time to realize the witch adventure at 60 FPS on the big N platform.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door focused more on visual effects than performance. This has calculation “costs” that affect performance, and therefore the developers had to choose. Since the remake is rebuilding the game from scratch, the developers probably used modern techniques to make the paper look spectacular on the Switch, so according to Tinari, it’s not at all the case that we’ll get thirty frames per second just out of laziness. (But in return, we can expect this to be stable throughout, otherwise the performance degradation would be somewhat ridiculous.)
I can empathize with the devs of Paper Mario: TTYD on Switch wrt the whole 30fps vs 60fps situation.
We tried for a long time to get Cereza and the Lost Demon running at a stable 60fps. (1/7)
— Abebe Tinari (@Bebetheman) April 28, 2024
When we last wrote about the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, somewhat inexplicably, the five-minute overview video was only available in Japanese, even after several searches. The big N made up for that gap, so we do, and here’s the English review, which nicely outlines what to expect from the RPG in five minutes.
It is certain that the Japanese company is preparing for the last major year of the Nintendo Switch with smaller internal developments, because there are games that Nintendo is holding back for the successor of the Switch. Either way, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is coming to the Switch on May 23rd.
Source: WCCFTech
