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

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JRPGfan said:

Jranation said:
Its "easy" to port but not "directly"? There was a couple of rumors that said it was easy.

They where lieing or talking out of their arses.

If you have to redo the game from the ground up, to make a switch version..... yeah... no way is that easy.

People just have nothing close to capacity to understand technical issues and so make inaccurate interpreations of surface wording.
Switch LIKE RECENT NINTENDO CONSOLES has straightforward architecture/standard GPU components, nothing exotic ala PS3 Cell.
That makes it "easy to dev for".  If it can't handle core algorhythms and assets of Xbone/PS4, then it is "hard to directly port" because
of hard limitations of hardware, no matter how dev friendly the architecture is, that doesn't compensate for gross power differences.