Ports dont take 3 years to develop lol. Oncw they are through the investigation stage its just matter of seeing it through. If it is going to work it will be out by next year
Edit:whoops, wrong quote lol
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Square Enix trying to port full version of FF15 to Switch, maybe via UE4
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Edit:whoops, wrong quote lol
MadNinjaZero
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Do we have any technical artists in the thread? Would it be less taxing to go with toon shading? Theoretically speaking, of course.
Smiles and Cries
Member
are there any examples of a single game title released on 2 different engines?
Some of the FIFA games.
Nope give me XIII trilogy on switch and ill buy.
Skittzo0413
Member
I am not a technical artist but I feel like I remember reading that cel or toon shading can actually be more taxing in some instances. I don't think it would be a viable solution.
Watch DF retro. Port houses made their own engines to port over PC games like Doom and Quake to consoles.
just out f curiosity, how big are the three games?
would they fit in a 16 GB card?? otherwise we are looking at a XIII trilogy for $80
Or the first XIII on a cart, with the other two as download codes.
edit: Just googled it. Each game seems to be like 20-30GB.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Seeing the results of Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy VII, we can expect great results. UE4 is really versatile and you can port assets from other engines to it very easily.
I really hope there is still future for Luminous Engine though.
I really hope there is still future for Luminous Engine though.
AmayaPapaya
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That sounds like a ton of work. Switching engines isnt easy. Wouod be cool to see the end result, though!
PhyreEngine might be a barrier to that.
Then again, Builders 1 and 2 are coming, so it's not impossible. But it might be difficult.
If they could get FFX to run on the PS3's CELL I bet they could do it on Switch
Look up what PhyreEngine is.
Well I'm a dumbass
It supports Android and iOS natively though, which also use mobile chip architectures
Eolz
Member
You mean the engine used by Dragon Quest Builders, getting a Switch port next year by S-E?
edit: ah I see that you talked about it before. It's not that hard I think, it's just a question of "is it worth porting this game".
There's an audience for games like Builders, but they're probably not convinced for regular JRPGs (and remakes) yet.
Nostremitus
Member
I'm guessing they are looking to UE going forward instead of in house engines?
Luminous took a long time to create, a long time to develop on, and seemingly never hit their performance goals.
They are using UE4 for FF VII remake instead of their own engine.
It makes sense that they'd port FFXV to UE4 for future updates and scalability.
UE4 already has Switch support, Luminous may not be capable of the scalability they want moving forward.
It might be cheaper to port to UE4 than the man-hours needed to rework and make a more scalable Luminous.
Luminous took a long time to create, a long time to develop on, and seemingly never hit their performance goals.
They are using UE4 for FF VII remake instead of their own engine.
It makes sense that they'd port FFXV to UE4 for future updates and scalability.
UE4 already has Switch support, Luminous may not be capable of the scalability they want moving forward.
It might be cheaper to port to UE4 than the man-hours needed to rework and make a more scalable Luminous.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
They've already shown off an upgraded Luminous in the FFXV PC trailer, confirmed its what they're using for PS5.
What results?