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AngryLittleAlchemist on 09 February 2017
m_csquare said:
Miyamoto doesnt seem to agree with this guy tho

http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-games-made-with-pc-as-a-base-can-be-ported-to-switch-in-about-a-year/

Again, as many people have said, it's probably just an excuse because of the lack of third party support at launch. If Nintendo came out and said "Oh we just didn't do a good enough job recruiting / showing off switch to third party" they'd look bad. 



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Fuchigole on 09 February 2017

The easiest and most programmer firendly so far, huh. That sounds like really good news.



Miyamotoo on 09 February 2017
m_csquare said:
Miyamoto doesnt seem to agree with this guy tho

http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-games-made-with-pc-as-a-base-can-be-ported-to-switch-in-about-a-year/

 

Platina said:
Better and easier porting is good news, wonder about that 1 year to port article?

 

AngryLittleAlchemist said:
m_csquare said:
Miyamoto doesnt seem to agree with this guy tho

http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-games-made-with-pc-as-a-base-can-be-ported-to-switch-in-about-a-year/

Again, as many people have said, it's probably just an excuse because of the lack of third party support at launch. If Nintendo came out and said "Oh we just didn't do a good enough job recruiting / showing off switch to third party" they'd look bad. 

 

That actually isn't accurate translation, and Miyamoto most likely had big 3rd party games on mind not Indie.

"In addition, third - party developers who are making software for PC can now easily adapt that software to work on our platform. In the current development environment, Iʼd say that it would take less than a year for them to port a PC game to Nintendo Switch. That ease of software development has also been felt  by Nintendoʼs internal developers."

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170207e.pdf



KLAMarine on 09 February 2017

Good to hear.



Jranation on 09 February 2017

Indies and Japanese devs will most likely love the Switch compared to the Wii U and 3DS.



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zorg1000 on 09 February 2017
m_csquare said:
Miyamoto doesnt seem to agree with this guy tho

http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-games-made-with-pc-as-a-base-can-be-ported-to-switch-in-about-a-year/

he said UNDER a year.



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caffeinade on 09 February 2017
zorg1000 said:
m_csquare said:
Miyamoto doesnt seem to agree with this guy tho

http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-games-made-with-pc-as-a-base-can-be-ported-to-switch-in-about-a-year/

he said UNDER a year.

Yeah and also, when did we start trusting Miyamoto's technical opinion.
I am sure he is quite clued in, but we do know that he is not a tech guy.



zorg1000 on 09 February 2017
caffeinade said:
zorg1000 said:

he said UNDER a year.

Yeah and also, when did we start trusting Miyamoto's technical opinion.
I am sure he is quite clued in, but we do know that he is not a tech guy.

Its a pretty vague statement since i would have to assume it varies from title to title.



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caffeinade on 09 February 2017
zorg1000 said:
caffeinade said:

Yeah and also, when did we start trusting Miyamoto's technical opinion.
I am sure he is quite clued in, but we do know that he is not a tech guy.

Its a pretty vague statement since i would have to assume it varies from title to title.

Also depends on how many bodies you throw at the problem, pretty sure most PS4 Pro patches were done by singe to single digit teams.



KrspaceT on 09 February 2017

Indie Support should be fine then.



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