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Plants, objects and smaller details are removed outright, giving the game a sparser, lighter feel. It's mainly the lower quality textures that separate the character designs, from the other versions of the game.Д®nvironmental detail is also adjusted. Additionally many of the post-process effects - including depth of field - make their way across to the Tegra-powered consoles. On close inspection following the video analysis, it appears Switch does in fact dial back polygon counts on characters, giving a more angular look to the shoulders of Solider 76 in the tutorial mission, though material shaders are like-for-like. The compromises are well handled overall. Overwatch on Switch does feel complete in this way, while the sound design retains its high fidelity without the overly compressed audio we find on many ports.

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We have bloom and light shafts, plus a lot of incidental background detail is retained - like animated cars speeding down motorways. Object physics work as they always do, knocking in all directions from bullet fire.

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It's a good solution that also maintains a close-to-level playing field in competitive play.ДЄs we're dealing with a platform built on mobile technology, there are further compromises compared to the PS4 and Xbox One versions, but it's worth concentrating for a moment on what has been retained.

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The point is, we're getting a Switch conversion that seems to use handheld settings as a baseline, before scaling up for the big TV experience. Textures, shadows, object detail are all an exact match between Switch's two modes. The resolution difference is the only aspect that divides docked and mobile play. Watch on YouTube A forensic video breakdown of Iron Galaxy's Switch conversion of Overwatch. Image quality degrades noticeably and it sticks out more while docked, blown up on a big TV - but it's a safeguard to help the Switch GPU cope. It makes sense for the Switch GPU to adapt this way there's no end to the number of effects that can be triggered at once, and adjusting pixel count to maintain performance is the most obvious way to maintain a smooth, consistent experience.

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Similarly, portable play is a native 720p in the best case, but again, the horizontal scaler seems to deliver a 960x720 resolution with the engine under stress. It's a dynamic 900p when docked, with a horizontal scaler delivering a minimum of 1152x900 under load. However, on closer inspection, there is much more to it, with dynamic resolution scaling in play.

The developer's Twitter account put resolution at 900p while docked, and 720p while portable. Image quality is a more obvious drawback and the official line on this was pretty clear when it was announced. As a very colourful, art-driven game, the texture drop doesn't really show on a small six-inch screen, and even when docked, the action is so fast that this compromise is not so easily noticed. It fits into an 11GB install, too, compared to the 25GB on PS4 or Xbox One - and the way Iron Galaxy manages this is primarily by cutting down texture quality, to something that's broadly equivalent to PC's lowest setting. There are obvious cutbacks, but there is a wonder to seeing this played portably. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better way to play Overwatch on a handheld and that really can't be understated. It still ranks as a technical feat in the sense that a port is possible at all, especially in handheld mode, but there are definite plus and minus points to Iron Galaxy's port - and perhaps a few too many of the latter.ДЇirst of all, let's concentrate on the positives. All other versions of Blizzard's celebrated first-person competitive shooter operate at 60fps - but the Switch port opts for a 30fps cap instead. It works, it's attractive, it's playable - but the limits of the Tegra X1 mobile chipset shape an experience that cuts into the core enjoyment of the game. Overwatch on Switch is available to buy right now.

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