Reggie confirms Frostbite is supported on Switch?
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Fifa sales on Switch had legs
Looks like EA may be going all in
(doubt Reggie would explicitly say Frostbite if it wasn't coming.... that's a pretty specific detail)
Looks like EA may be going all in
(doubt Reggie would explicitly say Frostbite if it wasn't coming.... that's a pretty specific detail)
Yeah. EA would have no reason to make a custom engine for Switch FIFA if they could just use Frostbite.
wut?
"like Frostbite for EA, or for those developers that are using development tools like Unity or Unreal engine. And those are all supported by Nintendo Switch."
I think the second sentence was more targeted toward Unity and Unreal Engine. However, he very much could have meant that statement for Frostbite as well. Though I would certainly take a statement like this coming from Reggie with a grain of salt.
I don't read that quote as saying it is/will be supported. Unity and Unreal are supported, but yeah there are no Frostbite games released or announced on Switch.
That said the fact that he mentioned it does suggest something could be happening. Maybe for future FIFA games since the current ones seem to be selling well enough, maybe for Star Wars games, I don't know if Anthem would be possible but maybe, Garden Warfare would make sense, and I guess Battlefield could fit too.
That said the fact that he mentioned it does suggest something could be happening. Maybe for future FIFA games since the current ones seem to be selling well enough, maybe for Star Wars games, I don't know if Anthem would be possible but maybe, Garden Warfare would make sense, and I guess Battlefield could fit too.
It's because Trump speaks like a PR guy. And they both use "tremendous" a lot.
lol he couldn't have been clearer.
Anyway this is great news.
If EA of all companies is using Frostbite now, it's a good omen for future support. I can't say I'm the biggest fan of their games, but Battlefield would probably do extremely well on the platform, especially now that the Fortnite crowd has Switched and is absolutely thriving.
Unless EA had just recently started working on making Frostbite compatible with Switch and it wasn't finished in time for FIFA 19.
This time next year Switch is going to have 30M - 40M units in the wild. It seems like a missed opportunity to just continue to bring FIFA and nothing else. A Battlefront port would undoubtedly sale well, and portable Madden could move some units.
I reeaallllyyyy doubt he'd confuse EA for Ubi in any scenario. Worse, he not only got the Publisher wrong, but also the Engine? I don't buy it.
More like he's letting the world know Frostbite can run on Switch as much as EA might not want to admit it. That sounds like a Reggie thing to do.
Or maybe it's more simple. He's gone nuts.
Although if I recall, one of the NFS: Payback devs said the game could run on Switch.
They had a tech-demo only version of Frostbite on ARM years back. You have to think they're gonna wanna get it onto ARM eventually so they can consolidate for their mobile teams.
Frostbite has been behind schedule for years now development wise. Support for Vulkan etc. was supposed to arrive nearly 3 years ago at this point. There was a developer over on the old place from EA who talked about Frostbite and its difficulty. The team working on Frostbite development was said to be exceptionally small and support resources was pretty much fully devoted to PS4/XB1 and PC support. There was little to no team available to getting the engine upgraded. Its been a year or more since that was talked about so who knows. Maybe EA has finally got it done which could lead to something eventually
according to a Dev at the old site that branch was not maintained.
We also know that of March 2017 there was 0 plan to port frostbite to switch. If it exists its quite new and probably still a fair bit away from being useable.
It's projected to be at 35 million by march.
30 by this time next year would actually be horrific.
Haha what? It's surely around 20m right now. You think another 10m in a year is "optimistic" ?
probably.
Also possibly Madden, Plants vs Zombies and a few other Nintendo friendly IP that EA have.
Hopefully Mirrors Edge
I remember Capcom asking for more RAM for RE Engine support, but someone here mentioned something about it not handling switching resolutions very well (unless I'm mistaken).
Wasn't Frostbite 3 also supported by Xbox 360 and PS3? Battlefield 4 was a cross gen title. So why shouldn't it run on Switch?
Honestly.
I'm expecting nothing. EA isnt usually a company that lets people have nice things.
I mean how hard would it have been to put out a low effort Burnout Paradise port to the Switch day and date with other platforms?
I just personally think it would make sense for EA to try and monetize those IP on Switch
It's EA so yeah same. You would think they would try with how they are so about being 3rd party.
That is such a nothing statement and I can't help but facepalm when people get worked up about shit like this.
Of fucking course Switch 'supports the Frostbite engine'. So does a fucking phone.
They still need to branch it out and get it running at a reasonable framerate with potentially completely different assets that fit the bill.
The Frostbite engine potentially running on Switch does not mean that you magically get every game ever based on that engine on the Switch.
Of fucking course Switch 'supports the Frostbite engine'. So does a fucking phone.
They still need to branch it out and get it running at a reasonable framerate with potentially completely different assets that fit the bill.
The Frostbite engine potentially running on Switch does not mean that you magically get every game ever based on that engine on the Switch.
Let's see the games.
Because right now ports like Fortnite don't inspire confidence. And MS and Sony are rushing towards next gen, and we have an already outdated console that has yet to hit its stride.
Because right now ports like Fortnite don't inspire confidence. And MS and Sony are rushing towards next gen, and we have an already outdated console that has yet to hit its stride.
