{"id":101717,"date":"2019-10-12T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/video_resident_evil_5_and_6_switch_demos_marred_by_poor_performance"},"modified":"2019-10-12T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:30:00","slug":"video-resident-evil-5-and-6-switch-demos-marred-by-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/video-resident-evil-5-and-6-switch-demos-marred-by-poor-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Resident Evil 5 And 6 Switch Demos Marred By Poor Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0df60d32c4ed\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0df60d32c4ed\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0df60d32c4ed\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SgIUYW3blFE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this week, we got a scary surprise when Capcom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/free_demos_for_resident_evil_5_and_6_appear_on_nintendo_switch_full_game_file_sizes_revealed\">released<\/a> demos for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil_5\"><strong>Resident Evil 5<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil_6\"><strong>Resident Evil 6<\/strong><\/a> on the Switch eShop, ahead of the big release later this month. So, how do they hold up compared to existing versions? The experts over at Digital Foundry had a look and found the Nintendo iterations to be rather disappointing in terms of performance.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Evil 5 was found to have an unlocked frame rate &#8211; resulting in unsteady performance, and the removal of motion blur really changes the look of the game &#8211; to the point, it doesn&#8217;t hold up to the Xbox 360 version. The load times are also worse on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>With the Resident Evil 6 demo there are noticeable performance issues from the beginning. The frame rate can dip below 20fps, and on average hangs below 30fps, with occasional jumps above this. It&#8217;s described as having performance similar to the PlayStation 3 version of the game. As these are just demos, nothing on display here is necessarily final. <em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you tried out these demos yet? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SgIUYW3blFE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Earlier this week, we got a scary surprise when Capcom released demos for Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 on the Switch eShop, ahead of the big release later this month. So, how do they hold up compared to existing versions? The experts over at Digital Foundry had a look and found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}