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A thread appeared on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board (Gehan) about footage of Nintendo’s newly announced full remake of Ocarina of Time. The original poster argued that the “shadow work,” “texture quality,” and “lighting” fall short by PS5 standards, going so far as to claim the game looks stuck with 20-year-old technology. This drew a wave of replies posting actual comparison images in rebuttal, and the prevailing view became that the results are more than impressive given the Switch 2’s hardware. The discussion eventually drifted off-topic into the Switch 2’s battery life and lack of waterproofing.
What people said
2026 and this is the remake quality we're getting? Playing on PS5,
the "shadow work," "texture quality," and "lighting" all look like they're stuck 20 years in the past. And there's this whole vibe of "well it's an old classic so it's forgiven,"
That's just what a few people were saying
and honestly the specs are just too weak, it's done for.
Only 3 hours of battery life, it's heavy, and it's not even fanless — there's seriously nothing about it that says "portable."
Do you really play that long while out and about anyway?
If it's a business trip or a hotel while traveling, you can just play while charging
If you've played for 3 hours straight don't you feel satisfied and take a break?
Wait, are you actually playing this outside?
Nintendo has a history of trying to compete head-on in the home console space and getting crushed out of it, remember.
They've learned they can't fight PlayStation head-on.
That's exactly why they're throwing money around to force third-party flagship titles onto multiplatform releases to chip away at PS sales — not that it's selling at all lol
If your smartphone only lasted 3 hours on a charge you'd replace it or send it in for repair, right…
And this is a handheld game console doing that, brand new 😂
Wait, gaming on a trip?!
So you hole up in your room even at the hotel, not just at home?
Ah, I see…
I always thought something was off about you, so that's it lol
In an era where it's hard to even find a smartphone that ISN'T waterproof? lol
Sad that Wolverine is the only thing you can even compare it to
No waterproofing is rough when it's kids playing it
Uh, what kind of household did you grow up in?
you could use in the kitchen while cooking,
but water droplets and humidity are the Switch 2's worst enemy now.
That's a downgrade if anything
And… you actually use your Switch in the kitchen?
No, it's not fine.
Why would you even be submerging it in the first place?
It's a game you'll never get to play on PS5, so all you can do is trash-talk it, huh 🥺
Leave him alone lmaooooo
https://gzo.ai/i/V6Ategc.jpg
They even went out of their way to sell a separate physical gadget just for the flavor element of tooting away on the ocarina — a part that has nothing to do with actual gameplay!
Can you really say that in front of Wolverine — a game you win by mashing buttons, that drives itself for you even when you do nothing, that guides you with farts, and that put all its effort into arm-hair detail?
Wolverine
Genshin Impact
OoT (Ocarina of Time)
This kind of "shadow work," "texture quality," and "lighting" is only possible on PS5
Precisely because the Switch 2 is objectively weaker in raw specs, Nintendo's technical chops here are honestly impressive
OoT looks amazing
Visual quality just comes down directly to the developer's skill.
At their core, ray tracing and path tracing are shortcut technologies that save developer effort, not technologies that inherently make graphics look better
Yotei's graphics aren't even that good lol
Have you actually played it, or are you just talking out of your ass? (エアプ, "air-play" — slang for pretending you've played a game you haven't)
Lately I'm starting to feel nothing even watching PS5 footage.
But when I see PC version footage, I'm like "whoa, this is insane!" just from looking at it
Go dig up some MMO from the country they ripped the concept off from.
Though that'll be rough for someone like you who's lived a cozy life on Japanese console games.
Competing amid inequality is what those games over there are all about.
Though it's rough for me too lol
I think they're working on one.
But release is probably still a long way off…
Full of people who've never even played Yotei talking like they have, lmao
What's Yotei?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Switch 2’s design prioritizes handheld-friendly thinness and battery efficiency, so a straightforward comparison with the home-console-only PS5 will naturally tend to show a gap in achievable graphical output. The debate over this Ocarina of Time remake split largely along whether posters accounted for that premise. Critics measured the footage against a PS5-standard visual experience and judged it “inferior,” while defenders praised how much the game achieves within the constraints of a handheld device — the fact that the two sides were arguing from different baselines was itself a source of the disagreement. Notably, in the latter half of the thread the discussion drifted away from graphics entirely into other perceived weaknesses of the Switch 2, such as its short battery life and lack of waterproofing — what began as a debate purely about visual quality ended up evolving into a broader assessment of the hardware itself.
*This article is compiled as excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry board, Gehan) thread “[Good News] Ocarina of Time Remake Turns Out to Be “Shabby Across the Board” by PS5 Standards.”
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