“Porting Apex Legends to its smallest screen yet is a major achievement, and we couldn’t have done it without our friends at Panic Button,” Chad Grenier, game director on Apex Legends said. It also created an Xbox Series-optimized version of Forza Horizon 4. The little-known developer in Austin, Texas has delivered a slew of surprisingly-playable Switch ports, including Rocket League, Doom (2016), Warframe, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Doom Eternal.
Respawn recruited Panic Button to help with the project. So, visuals and frame rate aside, you shouldn’t notice any major differences or omissions. Respawn has promised “full feature parity,” too. It will support cross-platform play, meaning Switch owners can team up and compete with players using PlayStation, Xbox and PC hardware. Today, the renowned developer behind Titanfall and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order announced that the port will launch on March 9th. But when? Various leaks had suggested the port would come out on February 2nd, but that’s turned out to be inaccurate. I'm going back to play on PC.We already knew that Apex Legends, the battle royale shooter by Respawn Entertainment, was coming to Nintendo Switch.
This is a strong port in many respects, but it's just not fit for purpose when the purpose is shooting people in the head from distance. Sadly for the Switch, Apex is better played on any other platform it's available on. If you're after a straight comparison between Apex Legends on Switch and PC (my platform of choice), then check out this comparison video. Manage cookie settingsĭon't get me wrong, I really wanted to be able to play Apex while sitting in bed, but this is one game where that heavily rumored Switch Pro would likely make a huge difference. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Sight lines are everything, and when you can't tell an opponent from a rockface, we have a problem.Ĭheck out all my thoughts in this first impressions video, where I highlight that exact issue. It's a competitive shooter set in a large open area. Apex Legends is a different beast altogether, though. Whereas the aforementioned Switch ports each had resolution issues, they play well and you can fairly easily overlook the graphical shortcomings thanks to the magic of playing as-of-then current-gen games on a handheld.
Sometimes resolution doesn't matter, but in a competitive shooter it really does.Īpex Legends released on Switch this week, joining the likes of The Witcher 3, Doom Eternal, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus as so-called "impossible ports." Judged from a purely technical point of view, port-masters Panic Button has once again delivered something that many might have deemed impossible, but this is a port that highlights the Switch's lack of graphical grunt more than most.
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