Damon Baker, the Senior Manager of Marketing at Nintendo’s of America’s Licensing department, has told Siliconera at this year’s GDC event that they are looking at bringing the Unity game engine to the Nintendo 3DS. The Unity engine has made it easier for independent developers to bring their titles to Wii U, so Baker was asked whether the engine will come to the Nintendo 3DS.
“We’ve had those discussions and we are definitely looking at that,” Baker replied.
“Our priority was to get the Wii U build [of Unity] up and done and ready. Because we need a test environment for it, it’s taken a while for Unity to get finalized on Wii U, so that we can actually test against it. So that has been made available now and that is why we’ve got all of these [game] candidates waiting in the wings that are just going through the submission process at this point.”
“Now, we can move on to other platforms and see how we can make those compatible,” he continued, “either with Unity or with additional middleware providers as well.”
“So, 3DS is definitely an exciting platform for us, because we’ve got a huge install base, and we want to take advantage of that. We’ve got a lot of developers that want to take advantage of it. So, we’re working towards that as well. But nothing to announce at this time.”
