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Nintendo: Expect “a lot more announcements from third-party partners” about Switch soon

Speaking with the Telegraph about the Switch, Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi has said to expect “a lot more announcements from third-party partners” soon.

“As you know we’ve been focused on development on first party games, but with Nintendo Switch we’ve also put a lot of energy into making third-party cooperation possible, and that includes a lot of attention paid to the development environment that we are provided to these partners as well as the middleware we create for them,” Koizumi, Deputy General Manager of Entertainment Planning and Development, said.

“Soon you will a lot more announcements from third-party partners.”

Koizumi also praised the Switch’s development base, mirroring comments made by Shigeru Miyamoto, who said that the console is quite easy to develop for.

“I think a lot of it comes down to the development environment we’re providing because these are third-party providers that are bringing games to Nintendo hardware we want to do everything we can to make that experience comfortable for them including providing support for Unity or Unreal 4 which are platforms a lot of people are already using,” he continued.

“So one example I can give of this is SnipperClips which is made by a very small development team in England, which uses Unity so they were able to develop it very quickly.”

The Switch heads to stores on 3 March.


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