Digital Foundry compares Sonic Frontiers on Switch, PS5, XSX and PC

Everyone already knows that from a visual standpoint, Sonic Frontiers on Switch is quite different from what’s offered in the PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions. The question is, just how different are things? Digital Foundry set out to compare all four versions of the title to find that answer.

Spending even just a few minutes with Sonic Frontiers on Switch shows you that a lot of visual cuts and changes are in place. Digital Foundry dug deep to find out some tech stats on the Switch version, and here’s what they came up with.

• 720p when docked (roughly)
• closer to 480p when in handheld
• no global illumination pass on Cyber Space stages
• global illumination in Open Zone areas, but the data is monochrome
• textures are reduced in quality
• large amounts of pop-in
• motion blur is completely disabled
• normal-mapped water ripples are completely gone
• trees and other details use ‘lower than low’ settings
• transparency effects are ultra low res and chunky
• screen-space reflections are lower quality docked and removed completely in portable
• lower-quality pre-rendered video
• slower loading times
• frame-pacing issues similar to other 30fps versions of the game
• frame-rate regularly slips just below 30 fps