Compared to the original Paper RPG on Nintendo GameCube, the Nintendo Switch version will not have the same frame rate, which seems like an unusual decision considering the Switch is a more powerful platform.

The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door will not run at 60 FPS. This was fixed on the GameCube. Why the change? It’s probably because the developers would prefer something other than framerate and performance. This was speculated by Abebe Tinari, director of Bayonetta Origins, on Twitter: Cereza and the Lost Demon. According to him, his team has long been planning to make the witch adventure at 60 FPS on the big N platform.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door focused on visual effects rather than performance. This has a computational “cost” that affects performance, and the developers had to make a choice. Since the remake is rebuilding the game from the ground up, the developers probably used modern techniques to make the paper look spectacular on the Switch, so Tinari says it’s not a case of lazily getting thirty frames per second. On the other hand, we can expect it to be stable all the way through, otherwise the performance degradation would be a bit ridiculous.

I can empathize with the devs of Paper Mario: TTYD on Switch wrt the whole 30fps vs 60fps situation.

We tried for a long time to get Cereza and the Lost Demon running at a stable 60fps. (1/7)

— Abebe Tinari (@Bebetheman) April 28, 2024

When we last wrote about the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, the five-minute overview video was inexplicably only available in Japanese, even after repeated searches. The big N made up for it, so we’re doing the same, and here’s the English overview, which does a great job of outlining what to expect from the RPG in five minutes.

What’s certain is that the Japanese company is preparing for the last big year of the Nintendo Switch with more smaller in-house developments, as there are bound to be some games that Nintendo is holding back for the Switch’s successor. Anyway, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is coming to the Switch on May 23.

Source: WCCFTech