The legendary Shigeru Miyamoto has divulged in a recent call with investors that Nintendo’s software developers have “mastered” the Unreal Engine, a highly advanced western technology that the Nintendo Switch is capable of supporting – and hopefully ensuring that even the most demanding of titles can be released on the Switch.
In response to an anonymous investor who pointed out the Wii U’s under-performance when it comes to supporting third-party software, Miyamoto revealed that the Switch is phenomenally better in this regard and that Nintendo’s software developers have been brushing up on their skills, supposedly mastering such “state-of-the-art technology” as the Unreal Engine and possibly other undisclosed tools.
According to Miyamoto, the development time required to port a PC game to the Nintendo Switch could take roughly less than a year, certainly serving as an improvement considering the Wii U’s compatibility with games that utilized the Unreal Engine took a rather extended amount of time due to the workarounds involved.
Naturally, fans are quite excited to see what Nintendo have in store with their newfound power; with this drastic advancement possibly even causing the more harsh critics to no longer label Nintendo as an expert in producing “children’s consoles”.
I’m getting a strong vibe of Rukia’s “I have mastered ur internets!!1 lolzorz”
I think Miyamoto is on the right move.
Android games were all stupid, and overheating put your phone in danger. The hardwares improved over years, now we can get PS3 alike experience on some EXPENSIVE tablets, but that is only possible with unreal enngine 4.
Although it’s possible, since not many people have good tablets, very few games take advantage of this. With switch, the performance will be guaranteed for developers. We also have controller so input should be good now.
It’s not like switch is a real revolution, they just make a push and lead the ARMS platform.
Really? Advanced western technology? Why does this read like some white nationalist outlet?
Must be your first time reading SC articles.
Only a bigoted idiot like you would notice it as such.
How am I a bigot for noticing the white nationalist undertone in the article? What dictionary from which dimension are you using?
It’s about damn time. One of the main reasons Japanese developers have not been able to catch up with western developed games in the last 10 years is that they’ve ben obstinate in developing their won engines for every and each game, and that costs time and money that would be better spent in polishing the final turds they sometimes release. I’m glad they’re throwing away their national pride when it comes to this thing and do the right thing.
Dammit, sometimes it looks like Japanese developers would still prefer to code directly on the metal for an old NEC computer rather than licensing pre-existing APIs.
I mean, it was a matter of time that Nintendo would drop their metaphorical pants and clenched.
This is one of the more ignorant comments…
Nintendo is not the only Japanese developer you know.
Wow, Nintendo, so fucking impressive lol