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    It's Not Easy Porting Games To The Nintendo Switch — But Developers Do It Anyhow

    Nintendo has long prioritized interesting gaming experiences over graphical firepower, but the popularity of its consoles means developers are willing to make the effort to rework games for them.
    by Keller Gordon Nov 19, 2020 3 minutes
    Nintendo's Switch console is less powerful than competing consoles, but offers a more interesting gameplay experience.

    When Gennadiy Korol, lead engineer at Moon Studios, booted up Ori and the Will of the Wisps on his Xbox, his eyes lit up. He and his team of developers at Moon Studios had worked tirelessly: coding, testing, and optimizing. Finally, after months of chugging espresso, a thing of video game beauty beamed back at him.

    Ori and the Will of the Wisps was ready.

    For the Xbox, that is. Another console told a different story. The Nintendo Switch version of Ori looked, well ... different.

    Since the start of the COVID-19 and some on getting their games into the Nintendo eShop.

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