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curl-6 on 20 November 2025
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burninmylight said:
Mar1217 said:

Panic Button low-key would make a great acquisition. Both them and Shiver working on more difficult 3rd party port not in-house.

This is something I've been wanting since the Wii U days. Nintendo working out deals with publishers of big third party games that would take more effort to port over to not just get those games, but quality and content-complete versions of those games. So many Wii U ports were complete jokes sent out to die, and while third parties tried harder on Switch, there's nothing like having a dedicated specialist on the job who's mastered the hardware and has the dedicated time and budget to get the most out of it.

Yeah, with Nintendo's systems now being hybrids that require a bit of work to get multiplats working at a decent level of quality, having porting specialists at their disposal would be a valuable resource.

Studios like Panic Button, Saber, and Virtuos did some excellent conversions on Switch 1.

In this instance, it can also lighten the load on Nintendo themselves, so that they don't need to expend precious first party manpower on stuff like Switch 2 updates of older games.