 Nintendo And Epic Explain Process Of Bringing Unreal 4 Engine To Nintendo Switch May 8th 2017, 19:07, by NintenMau5 Nintendo recently attended a panel at Unreal Fest West ’17 called "Switch & Unreal: Making Game Development More Unreal". They spoke about the Unreal 4 engine and the process of the engine coming to Nintendo Switch. Epic representative Takayuki Kawasaki and Senior Support Engineer Noriaki Shinoyama were on the panel alongside Nintendo's Masaru Mitsuyoshi and Yusuke Fukushima. It’s interesting to note that Nintendo showed interest in the engine so early on with Epic receiving information about the concept of the Switch and even being given development materials back in the ‘NX’ days. It’s also mentioned that devs only need to “push a button” to convert their games to be playable on the Nintendo Switch, albeit with a few tweaks. Check out some of the points below taken from the panel: - Epic couldn't negotiate directly with Nintendo until they established Epic Games Japan in 2009
- the Wii U released just when Epic was ending support for Unreal Engine 3, so it was a mismatch in timing
- Epic had always wanted to support Nintendo consoles, and that desire is finally realized with Switch
- Epic had been provided with development materials from Nintendo since Switch was in development & referred to as NX
- Nintendo had been receiving requests to have Unreal Engine 3 titles on Wii U, so they kept in touch with Epic
- Switch uses PC architecture, which makes it match up well with middleware and game engines
- this makes the Switch is more open when compared to Nintendo's past consoles
- in a major update for UE4, if Switch was the only version delayed, there could be issues in creating games
- the version 4.15 update which made Unreal Engine 4 formally support Switch was their first goal
- Nintendo is preparing for free and individual developers to be able to develop titles for Switch
- Mitsuyoshi had been receiving requests from indie developers wanting an easier environment to release titles on
- tools are to be sold in prices lower than 50,000 yen
- corporations that have custom license agreements with Epic Games were given development tools at the end of 2016
- the free / EULA version is currently undergoing final adjustments from both Nintendo and Epic Games
- this is planned to be supported in version 4.16 (to be released around mid-May)
- support for Switch will be only provided to those who have completed registration as a Nintendo Switch Developer
- game dev Shinoyama and Fukushima showed a vehicle game demo for Switch made with the aforementioned dev kit
- in order for it to be playable on Switch, developers only need to push a button
- performance adjustments and optimizations are still required after this, the basic pace of porting is simple
- supporting local multiplayer can also be done smoothly
- Shinoyama demonstrated that he could add local multiplayer support to the vehicle game demo in just a couple of minutes
- Switch-exclusive features such as Joy-Con orientation (horizontally or vertically) are also supported
- performance settings between Switch's TV and portable modes can be set in detail
- besides Differed and Forward Renderings, Clustered Forward Rendering can also be implemented
- the different rendering modes can be used with corresponding Switch modes
- only Switch has the selection between these three rendering modes
- Shinoyama ran a user-made game for Switch, which was Casa Barragan by Makaya Kenichi
- only the resolution was changed due to the burden caused by some objects
- the demonstration ran at 720p, but if adjusted it should be able to run at 1080p.
Here’s a tech demo that was shown at the panel: Source / Via Filed under: Nintendo, Switch Tagged: epic, Nintendo, Nintendo News, nintendo switch, unreal engine 4   |
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