Valheim on Nintendo switch?

[Alucard]

I wonder if the developers will port the game to the Nintendo switch, or will this never happen?

[electricdawn]

I don't have one, so I wouldn't be able to tell, but are these even powerful enough to run Valheim?

[Alucard]

Originally posted by electricdawn:

I don't have one, so I wouldn't be able to tell, but are these even powerful enough to run Valheim?

After The Witcher 3 port, anything is possible

[magnificent moose]

Originally posted by Alucard:

After The Witcher 3 port, anything is possible

Not really, though. Valheim is a Unity game which struggles to run on a modern, medium spec gaming PC. The Switch is using obsolete trash tier hardware. It has a 1.0 GHz CPU etc.

[Zelph]

Doubtful. Maybe the "Switch 2" when it comes out

Originally posted by magnificent moose:

Originally posted by Alucard:

After The Witcher 3 port, anything is possible

Not really, though. Valheim is a Unity game which struggles to run on a modern, medium spec gaming PC. The Switch is using obsolete trash tier hardware. It has a 1.0 GHz CPU etc.

Enough optimization makes almost anything possible. Valheim isn't a particularly good or hard to run games.

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: i5 3GHz or Ryzen 5 3GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
These are the RECOMMENDED specs. 1060 gtx is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ old at this point, older then the switch even. Processor may be more important. But that isn't to say it couldn't run on the switch if the devs wanted it to.

The bigger question that the devs would have to ask themselves: Would optimizing for the switch be worth the time? Imo, no, it wouldn't be worth it.

[BIGDOJO]

yeah i have a switch and i think valheim would be really good on it

[Polkasa]

Buy Legion Go

[Alucard]

Originally posted by PL Polkasa1991:

Buy Legion Go

good advice

[BROCKetMan]

Can confirm, I've got the legion. Runs like butter on maxed settings and runs like hot butter when I've got it docked to my external monitor, keyboard and mouse.

[Remiel]

I think the issue with the Switch is the Early Access state. Not sure if the Switch has those kind of games in its library.
As for graphics, if the Switch can handle Breath of the Wild then it should handle Valheim.

[electricdawn]

It's not only GPU. Valheim is heavy on the CPU as well.

[magnificent moose]

Valheim minimum spec is 2.6 GHz CPU. Again, Nintendo switch has a 1.0 GHz CPU. The fact that Nintendo was able to squeeze BotW to run on that antiquated hardware is impressive but also not really relevant here. They used a custom engine, the whole future of the platform depended on them being able to do it. Also BotW is a different game with a static game world (not proc gen like Valheim), much less terraforming and dynamic elements in the scenery.

Valheim is a Unity game. This means whoever would be doing the port would not even be able to do low level optimizations to the engine. The engine is what it is. I bet the only way would be to write the whole thing from scratch, kinda like Mojang/Microsoft did with Minecraft. And then they would have to do more magic than the entire Nintendo team who was intimately familiar with the Switch hardware.

Apparently they have No Man's Sky on the Switch so I guess anything is possible, but yeah I would not hold my breath personally.

[electricdawn]

No Man's Sky on the Switch? Color me impressed.

[The Duende]

The time it would take to optimize the game to the point it could run on the switch would be enough to finish developing Valheim AND Valheim 2 in their entirety.
Not to say I don't think it would be "theoretically" possible, but unless Nintendo themselves are porting it, You'd have better odds catching a meteor with your bare hands.

[dan]

Originally posted by BIGDOJO:

yeah i have a switch and i think valheim would be really good on it

as much as I'd love to see Valheim on the Switch, you can bet your last greydwarf eye that it won't support crossplay, or cross platform cloud saves (much the same way, and for the same reasons, that Minecraft on Switch doesn't)

Never being able to play the same character/world on both Switch/PC would take away much of the appeal for me.

[SvegetaX]

Originally posted by Zelph:

Doubtful. Maybe the "Switch 2" when it comes out

Originally posted by magnificent moose:

Not really, though. Valheim is a Unity game which struggles to run on a modern, medium spec gaming PC. The Switch is using obsolete trash tier hardware. It has a 1.0 GHz CPU etc.

Enough optimization makes almost anything possible. Valheim isn't a particularly good or hard to run games.

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: i5 3GHz or Ryzen 5 3GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
These are the RECOMMENDED specs. 1060 gtx is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ old at this point, older then the switch even. Processor may be more important. But that isn't to say it couldn't run on the switch if the devs wanted it to.

The bigger question that the devs would have to ask themselves: Would optimizing for the switch be worth the time? Imo, no, it wouldn't be worth it.

I think one thing overlooked is Vulkin only requires a certain lv of OpenGL version support.
Nintendo systems have thrived on that for some time which is why even EMU's for their systems is OGL dependent. A port is possible.
In the end it comes down to a deal with Nintendo.
Is it worth it? Last year I would of said no. They had many new releases, but this year those offerings have dwindled, and the game would get noticed.

Originally posted by dan:

Originally posted by BIGDOJO:

yeah i have a switch and i think valheim would be really good on it

as much as I'd love to see Valheim on the Switch, you can bet your last greydwarf eye that it won't support crossplay, or cross platform cloud saves (much the same way, and for the same reasons, that Minecraft on Switch doesn't)

Never being able to play the same character/world on both Switch/PC would take away much of the appeal for me.

This here lies the problem, and the sole reason not spending the time on it.