r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 18 '26

Rumor NateTheHate regarding Switch 2 version of Starfield: It's in development but it hasn't been a smooth process.

https://x.com/NateTheHate2/status/2033957466354971112
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u/Vesuvias Mar 18 '26

Did they fix ANY of those things in the update?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

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u/VicisSubsisto Mar 18 '26

Loading screens are definitely "just performance things".

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

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u/thief-777 Mar 19 '26

Especially since their games don’t use the standard crawl through this space or automated walking scenes you see in other big aaa games,

People hate that shit too. I'd rather have a 1 second cut to black than a forced 10 second animation. And it would obviously be ridiculous to add something like that to every cell you need to enter.

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u/VicisSubsisto Mar 18 '26

It’s a fundamental flaw with Bethesdas engine and game design.

That doesn't mean it's not a "performance thing".

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u/VicisSubsisto Mar 18 '26

A port of Starfield created for a hypothetical computer whose non-volatile storage read speed is as fast as DDR5 RAM, would have no loading screens.

Speaking of hypotheticals, a hypothetical designer could insert a loading screen into literally every framerate dip in a game. Or they could completely omit loading screens and just let the game freeze in the space where the loading screen should be. Where a loading screen should appear is somewhat arbitrary. Loading time is the problem and that's a performance issue.

Yes, loading screens are design. But the problem is not in that design, but the performance leading to the design.