Something really interesting @GameNChick (PwerlvlAmy, for the local folks) posted on Twitter today: an article from August about Bethesda and the NX. They said that if the NX is on par with the Xbox One, they will consider porting over games in development. Flashforward to October 20th, and Nintendo shows Skyrim running on the Switch, and an image saying Bethesda will support the NS... Now, I don't believe the NS is as powerful as the Xbox One, but there must be something more than just contracts and money talking. The secret sauce maybe? Most of the article is below:
Speaking with Metro UK, Pete Hines talked about how Bethesda hasn’t supported Nintendo hardware for a long time mostly due to hardware related issues, with the games in development not fitting without some major cuts.
"No, no. it’s usually been one of a technical… hardware issue. It’s just, what it is that the devs are making and what are the hardware requirements that they’re looking at, to support what they’re making? And what fits? And anything that is below the line is, ‘Well, we can make it work, but we’d have to cut this or that or do it like…’ But no, that’s not the point. The point is to take the game, as you designed it, and to get it working on those platforms. Not make a bunch of cuts and a bunch of changes and bring out some other version of it."
Interestingly enough, Pete Hines revealed that Bethesda will consider supporting the NX if the console is powerful enough. Games far into development, such as Dishonored 2, wouldn’t be coming, but anything that’s still in development could be considered.
So if NX is announced in the next few weeks and is as powerful as an Xbox One or higher, then…
"Then it will absolutely be something that we consider. Okay… let’s say they come out and say tomorrow it does X, Y, and Z. Well, Dishonored 2 is way down the road, it’s not in the conversation. But anything that is in development, I think we’d take a look at and see if technically does it line up with what they’re doing?"
http://wccftech.com/bethesda-developing-nintendo-nx-powerful-xbox/
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