{"id":317763,"date":"2025-11-28T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:48:08","slug":"kirby-air-riders-tech-analysis-including-frame-rate-and-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317763\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Air Riders tech analysis, including frame rate and resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kirby-Air-Riders-frame-rate-resolution.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kirby-Air-Riders-frame-rate-resolution-656x368.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kirby Air Riders frame rate resolution\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirby Air Riders only just released on Nintendo Switch a few days ago, and Digital Foundry has now shared some details about the game from a technical perspective, including frame rate and resolution. A few other aspects are covered as well.<\/p>\n<p>The full rundown is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Fans were running with the theory that the game uses ray-tracing, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be the case<br \/>\u2013 NVIDIA RTX instead likely being used in an offline fashion to bake out GI probes, possibly to light dynamic objects<br \/>\u2013 New engine used, SOL-AVES<br \/>\u2013 Kirby Air Riders frame rate targets 60 FPS<br \/>\u2013 Targets 1080p-1152p resolution when docked<br \/>\u2013 Top Ride mode comes closer to 1440p<br \/>\u2013 Portable mode is more variable with resolution<br \/>\u2013 900p is more common for handheld play<br \/>\u2013 Very intense moments can drop handheld resolution to 720p, but can also go up to 1080p<br \/>\u2013 HDR implementation isn\u2019t great, can look washed out<br \/>\u2013 City Trial is where the game can drop frames regularly<br \/>\u2013 You can also see some decimated animation a distance in this mode such as with NPCs<br \/>\u2013 For four-player multiplayer split-screen, in busy sections, there are a lot of dropped frames<br \/>\u2013 City Trial runs in the 40s and 50s for multiplayer<\/p>\n<p>See the video below for a further exploration of Kirby Air Riders\u2019 technical side, with frame rate, resolution, and more discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Analysis<\/p>\n<p>Kirby Air Riders is out now on Nintendo Switch 2. You can also find technical details about the recently-released Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/tomb-raider-switch-2-switch-frame-rate-resolution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Air Riders only just released on Nintendo Switch a few days ago, and Digital Foundry has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3763,69122,74],"class_list":["post-317763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bandai-namco","tag-kirby-air-riders","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}