Video: Ark: Survival Evolved Is A Blurry Mess On Nintendo Switch

On par with a Nintendo 64 title.

Digital Foundry has finally got around to taking a look at the Switch iteration of Ark: Survival Evolved and let’s just say the results aren’t pretty. The open-world survival game has never run well on the most powerful consoles and is poorly optimised. While the Unreal Engine might have proven itself on the Switch in the past, Ark’s use of it falls short.

Everything in the Switch version of the game has been seriously scaled back. Foilage is not present, the jungle floor looks incomplete, objects nearby are displayed at a low resolution, assets are reduced and textures are a mess throughout. Apparently, the visual quality is closer to a Nintendo 64 title. The blur is so bad and resolution so low, DF struggled to identify what techniques were used by the developer Studio Wildcard. When tested, resolutions were around 360p and 432p in docked mode and in some cases, DF noted resolutions of 304 x 170 – lower than a Sega Mega Drive game and also much blurrier.

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