Nicalis has “way more” games planned for Switch, development is “light years ahead” of Wii U
Posted on February 9, 2017 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Wii U
Nicalis has already announced and hinted at a few games for Switch such as The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+. According to the company’s Tyrone Rodriguez, the team is also preparing “way more” titles for Nintendo’s new system.
Rodriguez told Polygon that Nicalis was able to gain access to Switch “a little bit early” having also received dev kits for the likes of Wii U and 3DS. Development has also been incredibly smooth, and it’s been “light years ahead of what we were doing with Wii U.”
As Rodriguez said:
“The Switch is, by far the easiest and most programmer friendly so far. I know this sounds like lip service to Nintendo, but it’s actually not. If this wasn’t true, we wouldn’t be able to get these games up and running as quickly as we have, and we wouldn’t be able to have a launch title. It’s light years ahead of what we were doing with Wii U.”
Contributing even further to Nicalis’ ease of development on Switch has been unifying games across multiple platforms.
“We put in hooks in … so that the code will work on any platform. So, for example, if there was a console that didn’t have achievements, you can’t have achievements on those games. But in the case of Isaac, we built the achievements right into the game.”
As for why Rodriguez was somewhat vague with the above statement, he’s signed to a Nintendo NDA until Switch launches. He has to be cautious about what he shares about Switch functionality until then.
