But I’m saying this because just having a multiplatform engine doesn’t mean your game will not have problems in other console. Not singling out Fortnite, but talking in general.
I don’t entirely believe the devs that claim that porting for Switch is easy, given that time when someone described how nightmarish was porting a racing game to WiiU.
I mean I'm not saying that all they have to do is hit the "Export to Switch" button and call it a day. It would take some work to get it running properly, but if Nintendo wanted it on Switch, they could make it happen. Maybe they're saving the announcement for a surprise or something.
The online architecture for Switch is equivalent to PC since stuff like Rocket League does crossplay.
I don't get what's funny. All I'm saying is if developers want to put in the effort they can deliver an online experience similar to what is happening in PC/X1/PS4 games, besides Nintendo's stupid rules. Rocket League shows that you can do crossplay support on Switch. Switch and WiiU have plenty of games in all sorts of genres that have online play and work fine (WiiU even has an MMO with Dragon Quest 10).
There's even a team working on a 100 player battle royale game for Switch, PC, and Xbox 1 that has crossplay.
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/crazyjustice/aboutThe online architecture for Switch is equivalent to PC since stuff like Rocket League does crossplay.
"But Rocket League does it! Fortnite did it secretly with PSN/X-box Live until Sony told them to knock it off!"
That doesn't make them equivalent in the slightest. Because I mean to counter-point this: If that was the case, EVERYFUCKINGGAME would be cross-play in that case.
Holy shit, I'm still laughing at this five minutes later to the point of tears. I'm not even an Network Engineer and this is the dumbest thing I've read today.
Do you really think that the Swtich cannot run Fortnite? And yes, EVERYFUCKINGGAME has the potential to be crossplay if the developers want to implement it.
And I say all this as someone who plays Fortnite on a 4k PC and who's Switch has been collecting dust since Mario Odyssey, it'd be cool to have a portable version of it, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I'm just confused why Nintendo isn't publicly making an effort to get the game ported to Switch since the system needs games desperately.