NIS America goes over the toughest parts of porting The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 to Switch

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 originally saw release on PS4 back in 2017, but now it's coming to Switch this Summer. In an interview with Nintendo Life, NIS America talks about some of the challenges they faced bringing the game to the Switch.

The most challenging aspect of porting to Nintendo Switch (and PC) was securing the development teams to work on both platforms simultaneously. Durante (Peter Thoman), now part of PH3 [PH3 Games, a specialist games engineering company] had previously brought over Trails of Cold Steel I and Trails of Cold Steel II to PC. He did an incredible job on the port, including providing a very hands-on support to the Steam community that had issues post-launch. We were certain we wanted to reach out to PH3.

At the same time, we were also in search of a studio that was capable of working alongside the PH3 team for the Nintendo Switch version. In the end, arrangements were made with Engine Software and PH3 to share the same code base for both versions.