Nintendo Switch?
StrongjawAle
Join Date: 2017-02-28 Member: 228413Members
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But storage can always be upgraded right with an external HDD. The thing it falls back on is how much processing power does the Switch have and since it seems to be a lot less powerful than the Xbone... I'd say, a very very slim maybe?
Them devs aren't even sure, cause the hardware is also different from PC/Xbone/PS4 <- they seem to be a bit more similar with being kinda like PC's now
So you're telling me you can't lug an external HDD around with ya
Nah, sorry. I was trying to give hope where actually none exists...
Just so bored with these reocuring topics, cause people refuse to SEARCH
PS: It was 8 months ago when I tested Subnautica on this laptop so Subnautica probably would run worse if I tested again but still, I'm sure Nintendo Switch can run Subnautica. Developers may need to lower the texture resolution, render distance etc. but they can make it run and look good.
Can your smartphone or tablet run Subnautica?
Because that is closer to what the Switch is. It's a tablet with a downclocked Tegra X1 mobile processor and 4GB of RAM. Which is plenty for games from the PS3/XBox 360 generation like Skyrim, but stumbles with anything made to use modern hardware to their fullest, or even with less intensive but unoptimized games.
To put it another way, the Switch is closer to the performance of the XBox 360 than to the performance of the XBox One. A game that doesn't run well on the XBox One certainly won't run well on the Switch, and no sane developer wants to release a game that doesn't run well.
My guess is that porting Subnautica to the Switch would require re-engineering much of the game to reduce the amount of processing spend on simulation, perhaps even moving out of Mono (and, thus, Unity) and to something closer to the hardware.
It handles Breath of the Wild like a champ, you could get Subnautica to work if you were willing to put in the effort it would take.
Honestly, if it received the right porting treatment, Subnautica could probably run rather well on Switch. An actual physical release would be preferable (so that most of the game data can be on a cartridge and only the saves are on the console) but even a digital release would probably do fine. Mainly because it definitely would not be the same size that it is on PC.
Personally, I would love to see Sub on Switch, and I think there's a good chance the devs are talking about it, just because the Switch came out after they picked PS4 and Xbox One. But I will say it's probably an uphill battle at least.
It kinda feels like they are brute forcing Unity into something it doesn't want to do, UWE are evil engine torturers, they did the same with Lua on Spark
Would love to hear an official word on this, but I would assume Switch simply can't handle it. Not because of graphics, which can always be compressed into oblivion, but because of engine abuse
#LeaveUnityAlone
That does it. Kidnap some UWE coders and send them to the Assembly gulag. Think how fast their games will run when coded in Assembly!
In all seriousness, though, they do have source access for Unity. If I were them I'd tweak it pretty heavily, and stuff my tweaks into a plugin and sell said plugin to other developers. Price for use? 1% of the game profits.