Brian Cho, a former Riot executive who helped launch League of Legends and a current co-founding partner at Consumer VC Firm Patron, has had a long history in industry. Throughout his years, he has kept a vigilant eye on game development trends to see the reflux and flows of what new equipment and technology can allow.
Gamesbeat was able to ask a few questions to cho on The recently revealed switch 2 And, although we are still firmly in the field of speculation, which could mean for the development of games in the future.
While general thinking is that material capacity is only a constant increase ceiling, with more powerful graphic technology which simply offers more general space costs. Cho maintains that there may be a secondary advantage to put Nintendo equipment more online With his contemporaries with his contemporaries.
“This should make multiplatform development much more fluid than today,” replied Cho. “If Switch has better networking, graphics and performance capacities equally with Xbox and PS5, it should make the portage and multiplateform launches much more attractive to developers. It seems that everything points in this direction according to rumors around the launch titles available on the current triple-A consoles which would not have been possible on the first generation switch. »»
None of these rumors has yet been confirmed, because Nintendo has announced any software for Switch 2 in the absence of brief sequences of what seems to be a brand new title Mario Kart. That said, Cho rumors refer to indicate that the Switch 2 will play software comparable to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, perhaps with a lot of compromise. Thus, a game that can work on all these systems is a game that does not need a different team or an additional orientation, which saves time and resources for developers. Nintendo said that a software showcase will be held in April, when the veracity of these rumors can be really determined.
Cho refers to another rumor title, the Final Fantasy VII series anticipated the third game, when it talks about how it expects the global third -party development portfolio to Switch 2 changes.
“I expected it to be much smoother in the portage and, more importantly, a less exclusive launch on the console for triple-a games,” says Cho. “If titles like Final Fantasy 7 leaves 3 are an indication, I think that the exclusives of launching third parties will be one thing in the past, because it is not worth it for game developers.”
Speaking of rumors, Cho also thinks that the rumor of Switch 2 (Although strongly left) The functionality of the controller could themselves be what jumps to developers who seek to make games for the console.
“I am excited and curious to see what they do with the teasing functionality of the mouse. Not clear to what extent this will allow the titles that you will generally find on PC configurations, such as FPS and RTS games, to be more viable on Switch, even compared to its console competitors, “he said.
Finally, Cho thinks that the omnipresence of multiplatform engines like unit and the unrealone will be a boon to change development 2. The higher capacity of the equipment should allow the more modern versions of these executing engines, which means that less time has spent trying between the engine versions which do not even share the same features.
“Again, I expected things to be smoother – if anything, game developers had to reduce specifications and make things more specific to Switch; If Fidelity is tied with PS or Xbox, I imagine that I imagine a simpler support, especially if the games are developed unreal and units. »»
The launch details on switch 2 have not yet been revealed by Nintendo. Things like software, the price and the release date should be announced during the aforementioned software showcase which takes place on April 2.
