How far away are we from seeing games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Spiderman 2018 on Switch/Switch 2?

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Chrkeller said:

Soundwave said:

Everything in the industry requires money ... unless you think people work for free in this business. 

Nintendo bought that studio likely because they are anticipating ports from PS5-generation games to Switch 2. It's not exactly rocket science. 

They probably may have been in negotiations with some high level 3rd party for a port or port(s) of certain titles and just moved in on that company to seal the deal. 

If Nintendo now goes to discuss a port of game XYZ from a big publisher they can simply point out "hey we have a studio that we can contract to you to make that port happen". Simple as that. 

Exactly.  It won't be a straight port and Nintendo has the in house ability to rework assets.

Glad we finally agree on something.

They don't rework assets for those ports by and large. Witcher 3 had the same assets as the PC version on Switch for example. 

Reworking assets is expensive and would require likely an actual art department which a dev team of like 15 people is not going to have.

So no, we don't agree on that.