The terrifying videogame of The Creative Assembly surpasses with technical note the rest of the console versions with PlayStation 4 in the lead.
Alien Isolation, the celebrated horror video game based on such a popular film saga by The Creative Assembly and Sega, arrives today, Thursday, December 5, 2019, on Nintendo Switch with all its extra content and in digital format, a port of a title of 2014 that has been able to analyze technically the specialists of Digital Foundry and that throws some surprising results against the existing console versions. So much so, that Alien Isolation on Switch "looks better than PlayStation 4", as they say from that medium.
Thanks to a new antialiasing
It is nothing new that Switch is less powerful hardware than PS4 and Xbox One, although apparently it is capable of executing the xenomorph title with better graphic results; and it is that many expected that the version of Switch moved in similar terms to the versions of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, that is to say, with resolutions smaller than 720p in some moments and without certain visual effects.
Nothing is further from reality. And it is that Alien Isolation in Switch improves a good part of the visual effects of the PS4 version with a superior sharpness thanks to the application of a new TAA antialiasing technique and the system known as contrast adaptive sharpening, which favors texture edges more soft, among other improvements.
Already at the resolution level and in dock mode, Alien Isolation is quite stable at very close to 1080p, although depending on the screen load, it is dynamically reduced between 900p and somewhat above 720p. In portable mode, on the other hand it remains stable in the 720p although in the moments of greatest stress it reduces its resolution to the 540p, although only in very specific moments.
However, from Digital Foundry they ensure that the image, in general, is really good, although along the way some features such as environmental occlusion or shadows at a distance, of worse quality, are lost. Also, charging times are also longer than in PS4.
Source | Digital foundry
