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Diablo III’s Switch port took nine months, Iron Galaxy helping in porting
- Thread starter Shard Shinjuku
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I'd link to Kotaku as the original source: https://kotaku.com/the-diablo-iii-switch-port-took-nine-months-1828400479
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That's not necessarily implied. You can easily port and not optimize enough see zelda, doom and rocket league as to what I mean by that.
Not exactly sure what you mean.
At least Rocket League and Zelda are fairly well optimized, at least as of their latest updates
At launch their performance was different though especially rocket league.
Color me surprised that Blizzard is turning to an outside studio for help. I'm sure Iron Galaxy will do a great job.
I can see Iron Galaxy becoming as in demand as Panic Button instantly if this poet is good.
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Seems to me Iron Galaxy is the premiere PS360-to-Switch port team with Panic Button taking on PS4 and XBO-to-Switch ports.
Nice to have a 2nd Switch port from Iron Galaxy as well. I wonder what will be their next.
Maybe GTA5, but I have a hunch that Virtuos will do that since they did L.A. Noire on Switch and other systems for Rockstar.
Nice to have a 2nd Switch port from Iron Galaxy as well. I wonder what will be their next.
Maybe GTA5, but I have a hunch that Virtuos will do that since they did L.A. Noire on Switch and other systems for Rockstar.
Iron Galaxy and Panic Button will be cornerstones for third party devs wanting to port their games to Switch and would like some help in doing so.
Panic Button is a little ahead in announced/released titles (Rocket League, Doom & Eternal, Wolfenstein2) compared to Iron Galaxy (Diablo3, Skyrim). Wonder how the split will end up as the years go on.
Panic Button is a little ahead in announced/released titles (Rocket League, Doom & Eternal, Wolfenstein2) compared to Iron Galaxy (Diablo3, Skyrim). Wonder how the split will end up as the years go on.
60 fps native res handheld, 60 fps 960p docked. Sounds great to me.
Its the same guys from Arkham Knight for pc?
If so, im surprised that Skyrim is so good on switch, what a turn for them, glad to know
Yep, this is what happens when you put a porting project in the hands of a suspect dev team. Hope Nintendo doesn't burn out the Iron Galaxy dev team if this turns into another huge success.
A bit bummed that, outside of first party and Fortnite, a lot of the major ports seem outsourced.
I guess it's better than not getting them, but the switch development situation isn't going to change if they don't get internal teams on it.
I also assume internal devs would know how to get the games running as well as possible, I believe Rocket League ran at like 720p 60 or so on docked and got boosted to 900p 60fps by the main dev.
Epic is doing some really good things with Fortnite too resulting in gains for other UE4 switch projects.
Never played Skyrim so I was surprised by how ugly and janky it is. Not sure if that's IG's translating over the experience faithfully or not.
I guess it's better than not getting them, but the switch development situation isn't going to change if they don't get internal teams on it.
I also assume internal devs would know how to get the games running as well as possible, I believe Rocket League ran at like 720p 60 or so on docked and got boosted to 900p 60fps by the main dev.
Epic is doing some really good things with Fortnite too resulting in gains for other UE4 switch projects.
Never played Skyrim so I was surprised by how ugly and janky it is. Not sure if that's IG's translating over the experience faithfully or not.
On paper? Absolutely, and I don't doubt that on normal / hard it will be like that.
I'm a high Torment / high GRift player though, and there even the high end current gen consoles (XBX/PSPro) suffer. If they have problems, I can't even begin to imagine how this will be.
I guess you mean in terms of western games? All the Japanese ones seem to be in house.
Where are you getting this info? I find it extremely unlikely that this game can hold anywhere near 60 fps on Switch. The 360 version tanked to single digits on Inferno, and that was before Torment and Rifts were a thing. And the 360 version ran at sub-720p with significantly smaller mobs and elites with one less special skill.
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On-topic: 960p docked? Is that a first for docked resolution for a Switch game?
A game like Dark Souls ran at sub HD on PS3/X360 and dipped on single digits in a certain area. Switch port is 1080p/720p with a rock solid framerate even in Blightown according to those who played it.
So it wouldnt be unheard of.
Well, it's nice to aim for 60 fps I guess. It won't be able to hold it though. Not even close.
Rocket League is now in house at Psyonix, Epic is developing on Switch, ID is treating it as a first class citizen and developing with it in mind even if Panic Button do the actual porting, and even this article says there were Blizzard members on the team.
Ubisoft Milan is another world class team as far as I'm concerned.
Other ports we've seen - LA Noire, Skyrim, etc - have been competent or better. I don't think there's any reason to be worried at this point.
You can say that about the PS4/XB1 versions too. It even drops below 60 on low to mid-range PC's with a lot going on, it's just the nature of the game.
Absolutely. That's why I have a hard time believing 60 fps even on lower difficulties.
where is everyone getting these stats?
I understand the concern but we do have Doom Eternal coming day and date with the other versions, with an external developer handling the Switch version.
In fact, this happens quite a lot with PC versions of releases.
Overworking them with numerous projects due to their success to the point where they start asking to complete unrealistic goals.
Depends on your definition of 'work' - that said, getting it on there at all was practically a miracle.
I expect that their D3 port will be fine and I'm still planning to pick it up on day 1.
Borderlands 2 works on Vita?
(I dunno if they fixed the game, but i still remember this power point presentation)