Borderlands 3 on The Switch is Surprisingly Good

<p>I didn&rsquo;t think that a Switch conversion of&nbsp;<em>Borderlands 3&nbsp;</em>was technologically possible. When it first launched in 2018, it ran at a barely passable 30FPS on the PS4 and Xbox One and struggled to go much faster on the enhanced Pro and X consoles. It wasn&rsquo;t until the 2020 launch of new machines that&nbsp;<a href="https://xander51.medium.com/borderlands-3-next-gen-review-539e32d85575" rel="noopener">the game could finally run at 60FPS</a>&nbsp;on consoles. At that speed, the game came to life, feeling like it finally had the performance oomph it needed to show off all its cool gameplay features.</p> <p>The Switch isn&rsquo;t quite as fast or powerful as the original Xbox One, although its Nvidia Tegra hardware does have a few extra tricks up its proverbial sleeve. Still, the typical route for Switch ports of heavy games like&nbsp;<em>BL3</em>&nbsp;is to cap the framerate at 30 and cut visuals until you more or less hit your target. The wild and wonderful folks at Saber Interactive, famous for other &ldquo;miracle&rdquo; Switch ports like&nbsp;<em>Doom</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Witcher 3,</em>&nbsp;took a different route for this latest&nbsp;<em>Borderlands</em>&nbsp;port. They went for a full 60FPS on Nintendo&rsquo;s portable machine and made dozens of changes in order to get there.</p> <p><strong>That&rsquo;s right, the Nintendo Switch port of&nbsp;<em>Borderlands 3</em>&nbsp;often runs at a full 60FPS</strong>. It gets closer to this mark more consistently in docked mode, but still maintains a relatively high speed even playing portably. It&rsquo;s nowhere near locked, but moment-to-moment runs faster than anyone could have reasonably anticipated.</p> <p><a href="https://xander51.medium.com/borderlands-3-on-the-switch-is-surprisingly-good-a415a247eaa7"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>