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Details on Nintendo Switch Dev Kit

Details on Nintendo Switch Dev Kit

Nintendo made an appearance at the Game Creators Conference 2017 this weekend, where they revealed that the Nintendo Switch dev kit price is approximately 50,000 yen ($450).

For comparison’s sake, the Wii U dev kit was rumoured to cost around $5,000, with rumours relating to the Nintendo 3DS dev kit pointing to a $2,620 price point (or $3,950 if you wanted the functionality to capture footage).

The tweets by @aizen76 touch upon some other topics, which are intriguing if not necessarily to be taken as 100% translations of what was said. For example Ijuin-san spoke about Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers utilising Capcom’s MT Framework, an engine that was also supported on the 3DS and Wii U. The process of porting it to Switch was apparently relatively easy, with a small team completing the initial work quicker than they could on Wii U and 3DS. Capcom seemed to work quite closely with Nintendo during the early development of the hardware in terms of providing feedback on technical aspects; initially the Joy-Con controllers weren’t even a part of official documents about the console, apparently.

Those that are interested in developing for Nintendo Switch should register on the Nintendo Developer Portal, where all of the company’s developer programs had been merged into a single worldwide portal in July 2016.”

Guillermo Ortega

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