Nintendo Switch

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Back in February I made a feature request for Nintendo Switch support and to date, it’s only had 125 votes which clearly isn’t enough support to warrant the no doubt very large undertaking to develop support for the platform.

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/18473182-nintendo-switch-support 

However, as far as I can tell there are no pure 2D game engines that currently support the Switch, the main two commercially available engines that support it are Unity and Unreal.

Even though there may not be that much support inside the Corona community itself to develop for the Switch, I’m willing to bet there is a large potential audience of game developers that would love to develop 2D games for the switch whose needs are not currently being met.

Wouldn’t it be great if Corona was the first to support the new console? Especially as it’s such a fantastic place for indies right now?

#2

3 votes more!  :slight_smile:

#3

I have a Nintendo Switch (20 games) , this would be great! But, the facts are corona is working on html5. What about after html5, the big problem is that corona is not as big as unity or unreal. If corona sends Nintendo an email, I doubt that Nintendo will respond. Corona should try to get on xbox, because I think Corona has some connections with Microsoft.

#4

Nintendo nowadays is open to tiny indie developers, I don’t think there’s any reason why they would not respond to Corona.

I wonder if we might be able to add new targets to Corona when/if they opensource it next year (that’s what was said if I remember correctly). That should actually not be a huge task if it’s done with the requirements of one’s, or a few own projects (compared to if Corona had to do a full version that supports everything they do and forever).

#5
  • 10 Donkey Kong Bananas for this!
#6

I wonder if our HTML5 work will help get on the Switch which seems to be one of three supported ways to develop for it?

It sounds like their NDI would be something we could use to add support, but with over 1000 API calls, it’s a huge port effort to build for new platforms.  

Rob

#7

Nintendo would definitely speak to Corona, and if they wouldn’t then that just adds to the argument that Corona need to drastically improve the awareness of their product, and headlines like “Develop games for the Nintendo Switch with the world’s greatest 2D game engine” would certainly help that.

I agree though, it would be a huge undertaking. Just one I personally ( knowing full well that I know nothing of the internals of Corona or where their resources lie ) think would be worth the effort.

#8

3 votes more!  :slight_smile:

#9

I have a Nintendo Switch (20 games) , this would be great! But, the facts are corona is working on html5. What about after html5, the big problem is that corona is not as big as unity or unreal. If corona sends Nintendo an email, I doubt that Nintendo will respond. Corona should try to get on xbox, because I think Corona has some connections with Microsoft.

#10

Nintendo nowadays is open to tiny indie developers, I don’t think there’s any reason why they would not respond to Corona.

I wonder if we might be able to add new targets to Corona when/if they opensource it next year (that’s what was said if I remember correctly). That should actually not be a huge task if it’s done with the requirements of one’s, or a few own projects (compared to if Corona had to do a full version that supports everything they do and forever).

#11
  • 10 Donkey Kong Bananas for this!
#12

I wonder if our HTML5 work will help get on the Switch which seems to be one of three supported ways to develop for it?

It sounds like their NDI would be something we could use to add support, but with over 1000 API calls, it’s a huge port effort to build for new platforms.  

Rob

#13

Nintendo would definitely speak to Corona, and if they wouldn’t then that just adds to the argument that Corona need to drastically improve the awareness of their product, and headlines like “Develop games for the Nintendo Switch with the world’s greatest 2D game engine” would certainly help that.

I agree though, it would be a huge undertaking. Just one I personally ( knowing full well that I know nothing of the internals of Corona or where their resources lie ) think would be worth the effort.