

This week marks the arrival of arguably the most holy-cow port yet on the portable console: CD Projekt Red's 2015 action-RPG The Witcher 3. What looks iffy on a full-sized TV is easier to shrug off when seen on a six-inch 720p panel.


The charm of these games on Switch comes almost entirely due to them being playable on the go, at which point their severe compromises (image quality, rendering resolution) become much more acceptable. Doom 2016, Dark Souls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus-that's a list of demanding 3D games I never expected to launch on Switch, let alone games I'd actually recommend for the system.īut I do so with a pretty hefty asterisk attached. Since Nintendo's Switch console launched in 2017, we've seen no shortage of holy-cow ports of games we never thought would work on what turned out to be the most underpowered console of this generation.
