Snake Pass Developer: It only took 1 week to port to Nintendo Switch

Goodnightmoon

Banned

39,978

9769 posts since 02/12/14

Recent Badges:

Leaving Limbo 100 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Pata 100 wall post comments made on gamrConnect.
Congratulations on Pressing Start! Score your first game in your collection.
Genocide 5,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Pon Received 100 wall post comments on gamrConnect.

Currently Playing:

Jeanne d'Arc (PSP)
Metroid II: Return of Samus (3DS)

Goodnightmoon on 10 February 2017

Zkuq said:

Goodnightmoon said:

No it doesn't change things much, they said that to highlight how quick it was, the most important part of the game only took a week.

I'm kind of getting the idea that you're not very familiar with game development because as far as I know, getting things to 'roughly' work is still a huge distance from a finished product.

I know, but they (actual game developers) said that to highlight that the process was quick, and this is an indie developer with few people working, we are not talking about Ubisoft, also this declaration fits well with that the developers of The Binding Of Isaac said very recently

“The Switch is, by far the easiest and most programmer friendly so far,” he said. “I know this sounds like lip service to Nintendo, but it’s actually not. If this wasn’t true, we wouldn’t be able to get these games up and running as quickly as we have, and we wouldn’t be able to have a launch title. It’s light years ahead of what we were doing with Wii U.”

Miyamotoo

Currently Offline

78,901

13336 posts since 20/02/14

Recent Badges:

Open For Business Earned 10 badges.
8 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 8 years.
9 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 9 years.
Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
6 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 6 years.
One Small 'Splosion Author of 100 forum threads.

Miyamotoo on 10 February 2017

BlkPaladin said:
I think the 1 year ports are referring to Skyrim type games where there is a lot more code to optimize for the machine. Smaller games and Indies as long as they use supported third party engines such as Unity and Unreal should do it faster.

Actually Miyamoto said less than 1 year, not one 1 year.

gtaguidelng

Currently Offline

745

240 posts since 23/12/16

Recent Badges:

3 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 3 years.
6 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 6 years.
2 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 2 years.
7 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 7 years.
Leaving Limbo 100 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
Site Veteran Has been a VGChartz member for over 5 years.

gtaguidelng on 10 February 2017

I wish for a tenchu/Way of the samurai series Port and also that yakuza psp game

Mr.GameCrazy

Currently Offline

9,639

2285 posts since 24/10/14

Recent Badges:

Trust Me, It'll Have Legs 100 replies made to user's most popular thread.
Freezing Logged in on Christmas day.
Shipped Or Sold? 15 comments posted on VGChartz sales articles.
7 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 7 years.
So You Came Back For More, Huh? Logged in a second time.
A Free Man Managed to avoid being banned for 2 years.

Mr.GameCrazy on 10 February 2017

Good to hear! I wonder what's in the dev kits that's making it very easy for indie devs to port their games to the Nintendo Switch quickly.

nuckles87

Currently Offline

3,479

1043 posts since 12/04/07

Recent Badges:

Breaking Out Managed to avoid being banned for 1 year.
Man or Robot? Managed to avoid being banned for 10 years.
14 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 14 years.
15 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 15 years.
Watch Your Back! Received 10,000 profile views.
A Badge Within A Badge Earned 20 badges.

nuckles87 on 10 February 2017

spemanig said:
It took a week to get the game running, not to port. The port isn't done yet.

True. But their website says they plan to finish the port in the first quarter of 2017. So this port will done in months, far shorter than Miyamoto's "less than a year" comment seemed to suggest.

Frogger

Currently Offline

78,110

15396 posts since 04/08/13

Recent Badges:

Littlest Genocide 1,000 posts on the gamrConnect forums.
'Ello Princess! Awarded for signing up.
You've Reached the Bronze Age Subscribed at least one month as a Bronze Tier Supporter.
6 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 6 years.
A Free Man Managed to avoid being banned for 2 years.
Making Friends 10 friends on gamrConnect.

Frogger on 10 February 2017

nuckles87 said:

spemanig said:
It took a week to get the game running, not to port. The port isn't done yet.

True. But their website says they plan to finish the port in the first quarter of 2017. So this port will done in months, far shorter than Miyamoto's "less than a year" comment seemed to suggest.

Far shorter than Miyamoto's "less than a year." Far longer than the thread title seemed to explicitely state.

Why hasn't the title been changed? It's literally false.

Goodnightmoon

Banned

39,978

9769 posts since 02/12/14

Recent Badges:

Congratulations on Pressing Start! Score your first game in your collection.
1st Birthday Has been a VGChartz member for over 1 year.
3 Years Has been a VGChartz member for over 3 years.
Trust Me, It'll Have Legs 100 replies made to user's most popular thread.
One Piece at a Time Add your first game to your collection.
Watch Your Back! Received 10,000 profile views.

Currently Playing:

Jeanne d'Arc (PSP)
Metroid II: Return of Samus (3DS)

Goodnightmoon on 10 February 2017

He only has to change from "1 week to port" to "1 week to have it running"

Anyway I don't get the need to be so nitpicky of this when the end of the question is exactly the same, Switch is easy and quick to port games, simple.