{"id":127631,"date":"2022-08-28T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136758"},"modified":"2022-08-28T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T03:55:00","slug":"video-masahiro-sakurai-talks-about-frame-rates-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/28\/video-masahiro-sakurai-talks-about-frame-rates-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Masahiro Sakurai Talks About Frame Rates In Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/70c514dfa6738\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/70c514dfa6738\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Rjdmi7628GM\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Masahiro Sakurai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/masahiro-sakurai-has-launched-his-own-youtube-channel-about-creating-games\">launched his very own YouTube earlier this week<\/a>, and he&#8217;s already discussed a number of interesting subjects about game development. In his latest video, he talks about how frame rates work in video games.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also included his own thoughts about frame rates in games &#8211; mentioning how 60 fps is &#8220;ideal&#8221; and 30 fps is &#8220;adequate&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;60 fps is an ideal frame rate when possible, but 30 fps is a common standard&#8230;And 30fps is still more than adequate for playing games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a> is shown on-screen during his comment about 30 fps gaming, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/03\/video_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_given_more_framerate_stress_tests_on_wii_u_and_switch\">this 3D title is not always consistent<\/a> and suffers dips in both handheld and portable mode during more heated moments.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Zelda: BOTW\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c1913a169cdc6\/zelda-botw.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c1913a169cdc6\/zelda-botw.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda: BOTW\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s first-party titles on Switch typically aim for 30 to 60 fps, but other consoles can hit 120 fps, and platforms like PC games go to 144 fps and beyond &#8211; provided they&#8217;ve got a supported monitor.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your own thought about frame rates in video games? Would you like to one day see Nintendo release a system that can match the Xbox and PlayStation hardware in terms of fps? <em>Leave your thoughts down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Masahiro Sakurai launched his very own YouTube earlier this week, and he&#8217;s already discussed a number of interesting subjects about game development. In his latest video, he talks about how frame rates work in video games. He&#8217;s also included his own thoughts about frame rates in games &#8211; [&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-127631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127631","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=127631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}