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Virtuos porting an AAA title to the Nintendo Switch

by nintendaan
03 August 2017
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Virtuos, best known porting games to various platforms, is seemingly working hard on Nintendo Switch. Their previous work includes Batman: Return to Arkham, Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection and Final Fantasy.  Doctre81, NeoGAF member and YouTuber, noted that senior programmer Xiaoyu Zhang states that their are bringing an AAA port to the platform.

You will find the information, originally from LinkedIn, in full below:

WIP: Porting a AAA title to Nintendo Switch
– Re-implement the renderer with Nintendo’s native graphics API(nvn)
– Design and implement the low level mechanism of graphics resource management and threading
– Exploit the performance advantages of the Vulkan-like API (UMA, explicit management of graphics memory, complete control over CPU/GPU synchronization, etc)