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Itās not for me, but have to say that Mario Kart World doesnāt look much more impressive graphically than Mario Kart 8.
Characters are probably more detailed and Iām guessing animations are better but this weird hazy/washed out look is not a good thing. It really lacks the deep colors 8 does have.
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It reminds me of the comparisons people were making between Oblivion on Xbox 360 and the remaster. Adding the ādistance hazeā effect makes it look more realistic, but also by necessity makes the colors look less bold and saturated. Definitely a subjective thing, I think World looks really nice but I can see where others would prefer the old style.
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It looks marginal to me and Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game after all
Iām not into Nintendo and donāt own a Switch 1 or 2 and so itās not really for me to comment. It just looks like Nintendo has been very lazy with their new handheld.
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Details, animations and shaders are miles ahead of 8, trust me. The tracks are also wider, thereās much more going on with 24 racers and that last track, Rainbow Roadā¦ My jaw dropped on the floor playing it for the first time.
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Yeah, it just kept getting better and better. Phenomenal track design.
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Is this where gaming media finally acknowledges how horrible the big Switch 1 games actually performed?
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LOL. āGo buy Switch 2 because it finally makes Breath of the Wild playable, unlike that horrible old version!ā
āBut at the time you said the old version was fineā¦ā
āItās Nintendo, donāt ask questions, just buy!ā
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I wouldnāt say my jaw dropped or anything, but I was definitely impressed and happy with what Iāve seen of Mario Kart so far; Iām going to ignore the toxic hyperbole from the previous poster but I would damn well hope it looks considerably better than Mario Kart 8, considering that was a Wii U title barely touched up on the Switch (I own both versions). I definitely think itās a generational uplift over that, but Iām still pretty concerned about longterm longevity, considering things have only sped up on the silicon and efficiency front since 2021ā¦ when the chip was developed.
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Yeah, its definitely a major step up from MK8. Wow factor is a bit a bit harder to come by when they are catching up to last gen technically, but certainly impressive for a portable device (I also wasnāt wowed).
I think the track design is certainly wow worthy though, some of those courses are incredible.
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They tested FF16 on Xbox too and wellā¦some work needs to be done because it isnāt on par with PS5, will they though? Thatās the question.
Performance mode runs at lower resolution but higher framerate than PS5ās performance modeā¦ Time for a paradigm shift to resolution being most important again? 
In all seriousness, it does seem like it could use some further optimization. I kind of donāt mind the tradeoff for better framerate though - the game has always looked pretty soft and smeary even in PS5ās quality mode. 
Iāve been playing on performance mode and Iām not unhappy with it honestly.
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They do that all the time, along with adjectives that are different all the time. Only there will a 5% difference be āmostly the sameā but then a 0.5% difference for under 1% of the time is āa gamechangerā.
Definitely not worth the time to watch.
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Iāve tried performance mode in the demo, but I noticed the difference in sharpness immediately, so itās quality mode for me. It seems that can use some improvements, letās hope they actually bother with it.
And yep, true, especially with motion blur at 5 itās just too much, off is best I find. And even then it isnāt as crisp as Iād like it to be, but itās doable. Itās definitely a mixed bag visually.
these pedantic discussions have ruin video games. console warriors on both sides trying to ruins each others enjoymentā¦
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100%
If these assholes werenāt posting a new video everyday telling you why the thing you have isnāt good enough no one would even notice sitting at normal viewing distances (outside of major frame rate issues).
Itās abject brain rot.
And even if you grant them benefit of the doubt, and in this case I will (I like Richard for the most part), and assume they are doing it because they find it inherently interesting to them sheerly from the technical perspective; the end result is the same. There is no real inherent value in it other than fueling tribalism.
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Damn, DF were very downbeat in that video on basically everything lol, the showcase, the hardware. Oliver esp. acting like the steam deck is perfect console experience and whatever MS is doing right now is going to fall short, even suggesting that SteamOS was really going to be the go to for the upcoming handhelds. Perhaps not getting invited to preview the device really bummed them out. They also didnāt think the Xbox showcase was the best from the SGF.
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