Developers Can Now Use The Versatile PhyreEngine On Nintendo Switch

More games for us. Yeah!!

I mentioned this elsewhere but why is this news NOW?

When we got the announcement of DQB for Switch, what did we think it was made in?

@SanderEvers You mean Journey on PS4? Sorry, but it's a Sony exclusive, so no dice

The more the merrier! I'd be happy with one more year of good "catch up ports".

More room for support for the Switch as all well and good in my eyes

It should mean more ports.

so this is what Nintendo Direct will be about?

I have an exam about Games Development in 4 hours and the brief is about the Nintendo Switch, so this info came at the greatest time ever. Thanks NL. <3

What are some good games done with this engine?

All games using the engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyreEngine

@YummyHappyPills There's a difference between Sony adding Switch support and SE porting the game to a unsupported platform.

In the former, any game using the engine will have a much easier time porting. In the later, SE could only work on the parts which matters to their game and they not necessarily would share their code.

See Rocket League as an example. It's on Unreal Engine 3 and it's out for 2 months, but Epic Games didn't add UE3 support to Switch.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Bet you're excited ;P

Noice! more native engine support the better. Alright devs, get crackin!

I wonder if this means free games that the PS4 has? That would be cool.

FInal Fantasy X/X2 confirmed

old outdated engine, not expecting much from this

@raviadso
Oh...
KH 1.5 + 2.5 HD Remix, FF XII The Zodiac Age, FF XIII, World of Final Fantasy are also confirmed ?

I'd be interested in the Danganrompa titles maybe?

I'm sure there will be those that will find some way to bemoan this, but another dev tool is another possibility of another game we wouldn't have seen on the Switch otherwise, for better or worse, I have to add. It's just better to have more open doors for hopefully less excuses and less chance of the Switch being left in the cold, which doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon with its current momentum.

So when we getting Game Maker Studio, Clickteam and Construct support, yo?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You aren't wrong, but native support for Switch in the engine means that new games being developed will have an easier time releasing simultaneously, as well.

The more engines that support Switch the more potential there is for games launched on Switch alongside other platforms.

There's still the power disparity between the other consoles and Switch which won't go away, of course.

Journey, Flower, Flow, and Critter Crunch please!

@Anti-Matter WOFF runs on the Orochi3 engine. Not sure about FFXII though. Couldn't find any info so I guess it is a custoum build engine which could make a port rather difficult. Same applies to KH.

From the list of games using the engine, I'd like to see Legend of Heroes, Tokyo Xanadu, FFX, Danganronpa, Disgaea 4.

Always good to have more compatibility. I can't say I really enjoy DQB much at all, but at the very least it helps bring us more.

I do hope so though that NIntendo will re-release an updated Switch machine and going up to 8gb ram! That will give more tools to work with and more A++ titltes from 3rd company. I'm sure if Nintendo would know it they might would've done it... don't know

Blast ‘Em Bunnies for Switch!!!!

Sounds like good news to me.

That could mean games like the Legend of Heroes series could come to Switch...that would be awesome.