Random: Nintendo Reveals The Player Prediction Methods Used To Cut Zelda: TOTK's Load Times

Depth dive.

We quickly lost track of how many times we muttered "wait, how did Nintendo do that?" in our first few hours of playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The fact that it runs on the Switch at all is a technical marvel, but arguably one of its most impressive feats is the expansive Depths and the nonexistent load times required to get to them.

Until recently, we had chalked up the seamless transition from surface to Depths as some kind of Nintendo wizardry — how else could the Switch possibly load all that so quickly? However, it seems no magic was officially involved as Nintendo has now shared some of the technical tactics used by the developers to keep load times to a minimum (thanks, Automaton).

Read the full article on nintendolife.com