| spurgeonryan said: But, not an expert, I believe in the past the Nintendo systems main difficulty when trying to port was either Nintendo did not share all the tools or the systems were just not strong enough. So if Nintendo shares all the tools that they have, like they did with RARE, and the system has some punch...do you think they will finally get some companies back? Add in the Switch's success, like the Wii before it and is that a no brainer for companies to come on board, or still some issues? |
Switch is the first system with a non-Nintendo-made API I believe with Nvidia's NVN. Switch 2 probably uses NVN2. So devs have access to the same tools. If you are referring to engines. Well, no Nintendo has custom in-house engines as does Sony/MS and other 3rd party developers but they also use UE and Unity and such. Lack of tools is not an issue. This is not the 16-Bit era. SEGA was worse than Nintendo back then about providing support for 3rd parties. N64 used SGI chips which were well known at the time.
Last edited by Leynos - on 31 August 2024Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
