Ex-Ubisoft Dev: Direct ports from PS4/Xbox One to Nintendo Switch not possible

[Darwinianevolution]

Hiku said:

Darwinianevolution said:

To be fair, there aren't that many big western AAA games that have the potential of selling well on the Switch. The only one I can think of is Skyrim, because it can catter to the Zelda userbase and it's the first portable TES game. This system will get tons of A-AA games (both western and eastern) and last gen remasters, which will be a big step from the WiiU's support.

Wii sold over 100m and most of the mainline A-AA Japanese franchises skipped Wii (and N64, Gamecube and WiiU).
If we're talking about console A-AA games that appear on PS4, I'm not confident we'll see much of a change in that department. However, if we're talking about the lower budget games that would normally appear on 3DS, I think Switch will get a lot of support from that direction. Basically I'm expecting a library similar to 3DS + WiiU.

Yeah, I'm expecting something similar to that, maybe slightly bigger due to the potential Vita devs either porting multiplats or fully migrating to the Switch. Plus PS360 ports in the form of toned-down remasters (western publishers will say the games on the Switch are remastered, but are only half remastered compared to the remasters on PC and PS4/XBOne).