Age of Empires II port for Switch

[theStyleWithin]

Hi I would love to see this game on the Nintendo Switch it has proven hardware to run certain PC and PS4 ports it's getting games like Wolfenstein II The New Collosus afterall.

The Switch even has full keyboard support! So in case had any doubts about keyboard commands working on Switch it has you covered. Thirdparty companies are making new Switch keyboards all the time too.

Nintendo Switch has online support for free until September. But mod support would unfortunately have to be taken out of the game entirely. To me it would be worth the sacrifice to be able to play this game on my Switch. But it might be possible to make existing mods from Steamworkshop available as free dlc or some kind of feature through Nintendo Switch Online.

With the Switch's touch controlls you can easily control and move your units easier then a mouse and if you're playing in console mode just add a mouse icon to the screen like Pokemon Quest. I think the Switch is perfectly capable of playing Age of Empires II.

[talgaby]

The game was originally written for the Win9x kernel with no ports ever made for consoles. What you ask is possible, but it requires such a large porting job and manhours that it will never be paid off, even if the Switch is slowly becoming the most popular console of the 21st century.

[Ashur_Arbaces]

talgaby님이 먼저 게시:

The game was originally written for the Win9x kernel with no ports ever made for consoles. What you ask is possible, but it requires such a large porting job and manhours that it will never be paid off, even if the Switch is slowly becoming the most popular console of the 21st century.

Actually the original Age of Kings got ported to PS2. Wasn't much of succes though and it never even got the conquerors expansion.

[talgaby]

Oh gods, yes, I remember that now. The controls were ass.

[Britannicus]

Considering Microsoft is considering making AoE 1 Definitive and AoE 4 Windows Store exclusives, I very much doubt they are interested in porting to anything but Xbox, if that.

[theStyleWithin]

I understand you have your doubts I'm just putting this out there to show my interest in AOE2 for Switch. I'm not a developer I don't understand anything about game programming, so please don't lecture me about what it takes to program a game. I can already see that Microsoft doesn't seem to be interested at porting it to consoles since they don't even have it on their own Xbox One system. But if they ported it to the Switch it would sell massively on it in comparison to the Xbox. This game might not be a good comparison but look at what happened to Blossom Tales.

[aguswings]

Please port Bad Rats to Switch also

[Fanta Morgana]

I think if the xbox finally gets the long teased mouse and keyboard support, its likely the AOE DEs become play anywhere titles, which means you will buy them on either Win store or Xbox and can play them on both.

[^1Romanov77]

Haha, console normies playing Age of Empires, HAHA!

[theStyleWithin]

^1Romanov77님이 먼저 게시:

Haha, console normies playing Age of Empires, HAHA!

I used to play that on an old Windows XP dude. But ♥♥♥♥ the PC master race I get it hardware wise PC wins. But you have to admit. if you can play it on the go with the Switch AoE it would fun and you can spend a lot more hours on it in portable mode rather then on a PC where it remains in one place at HOME!

[Fanta Morgana]

theStyleWithin님이 먼저 게시:

I get it hardware wise PC wins.

My PC doesn't ;-)

[theStyleWithin]

Fanta Morgana님이 먼저 게시:

theStyleWithin님이 먼저 게시:

I get it hardware wise PC wins.

My PC doesn't ;-)

OK so you have a gaming laptop but a gaming laptop still isn't as comfortable as playing on the Nintendo Switch. You have to bring so many cables with you and accessories. The Switch all you need is your Switch and power bank, pro controller or just the Joycons. Anything extra is all you.

I watched a video from Reviewtechusa where he compared the portability of a laptop to the Nintendo Switch. Yes the laptop is more powerful but not as portable as the Switch.

[NIKFS]

theStyleWithin님이 먼저 게시:

Fanta Morgana님이 먼저 게시:

My PC doesn't ;-)

OK so you have a gaming laptop but a gaming laptop still isn't as comfortable as playing on the Nintendo Switch. You have to bring so many cables with you and accessories. The Switch all you need is your Switch and power bank, pro controller or just the Joycons. Anything extra is all you.

I watched a video from Reviewtechusa where he compared the portability of a laptop to the Nintendo Switch. Yes the laptop is more powerful but not as portable as the Switch.

if we were talking about aaa games... maybe

but aoe2 runs on really low hardware, remember those old dualcore intel atom 1.6ghz? played alot of aoe2 on one of those xD it ran fluid even when i plugged it into a 900p display back at home and was just as portable with only a wireless mouse being added for comfort


today with really thin laptops with more power than that craptop back then... at least for aoe2 thats no point as you can run it on laptops just as or even more portable than a switch :P