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Meanbean14 has Subnautica

Sep 21, 2017 @ 10:56am

Subnautica on nintendo switch

would anyone else like to see Subnautica on the switch? I would

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CAVMOT

Jan 1, 2019 @ 2:38pm

I thought Warframe would be practically impossible to put on the switch, and yet here we are. The amount of content of the game, and how good it looks despite being from 2013, and yet the switch can run it surprisingly well. Subnautica is of course nowhere near the same game as Warframe, but I think it's a good proof of concept, along with other games mentioned in this thread like Skyrim and botw. I would say the biggest problem is optimization. Games like Skyrim and botw and Warframe are made by much bigger companies with far more people working on them. Subnautica is made by a pretty small indie company, and it's impressive that such a small team can make such a game. And while subnautica has gotten much better in performance from when I started playing a few years ago, it still is not optimized fully. I'm sure it could all be fixed given some time, but a lot of other things need to be taken into consideration, like whether it's actually worth porting. Like many people have said, they could just give it to panic button and I'm sure they could do something about it, they ported Warframe and they already have experience with subnautica from porting it to the PS4. It might as well be a match made in heaven. Either way, I don't think it's impossible in the slightest. Whether it will actually happen is definitely up in the air, but I'm sure that with enough work it could be done.

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GamingWithSilvertail has Subnautica

Jan 1, 2019 @ 4:34pm

Originally posted by Ravo:
Subnautica is built on Unity, which is in bed with Nintendo and makes it easy to get Unity games on the Wii U and Switch. With that said, the Switch is painfully short on hardware for a game like Subnautica. The game is already graphically neutered for the XBONE, the Switch would be far less feasable.

considering the game on pc can run medium quality on 2010 PC's..... Also, there's much heavyer games on switch ;)

Also.. there was really n oreason for Subnautica to be neutered graphically on the xbone..... lol

Sorry about that. if Doom can run 60 FPS on a non one x os ps4, and switch with neutered graphics. subnautica can.

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Coldhands Jan 1, 2019 @ 4:54pm

The only thing better than screaming like a girl because a leviathan got the drop on you is doing it in public. : p

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iROMine

Jan 2, 2019 @ 4:23pm

Originally posted by Coldhands:
The only thing better than screaming like a girl because a leviathan got the drop on you is doing it in public. : p

DOOM, Wolfenstien, Hello Neighbor, Surgeon Simulator, if Subnautica came to the switch playing the switch in public would be a nonstop scream fest.

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ShiroNeko

Dec 16, 2019 @ 10:18pm

Originally posted by Obraxis:
It's unlikely we would port to the Switch as it has limited hardware. But it would be cool.

It's more of a developer limitation. Look at witcher 3. Bigger more advanced game with better graphics (On pc, there is no subnautica for switch because reasons) but still works on switch :)

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iROMine

Dec 17, 2019 @ 4:31pm

Originally posted by FL4K:
Originally posted by Obraxis:
It's unlikely we would port to the Switch as it has limited hardware. But it would be cool.
It's more of a developer limitation. Look at witcher 3. Bigger more advanced game with better graphics (On pc, there is no subnautica for switch because reasons) but still works on switch :)

Interesting take. I can second it. I see your point.

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