The game is already regarded as a technical marvel on the current hardware.
A lot of fingers are pointed at Pokémon Scarlet/Violet for their rather ugly and poor performing open world setup, with many suggesting that it was due to the struggling hardware of the increasingly dated Nintendo Switch. However, then there’s Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which also offers an open world that, instead of being a blemish on the eyes, manages to make you wonder how the development team made it run so smoothly and well on a console many compare to last-last-gen in hardware capabilities.
