Miyamoto: Nintendo’s internal studios have ‘mastered’ the Unreal Engine

Epic Games already confirmed that the upcoming Switch console supports the powerful Unreal graphics toolkit, but now Nintendo claims it has experimented and mastered the engine itself.

Nintendo creative director Shigeru Miyamoto told a gathering of the publisher’s investors that the company built the Switch hybrid home/handheld console, due out March 3 for $300, with ease of development in mind. He explained that a studio could take a PC game and quickly port it to the Switch thanks to the Nvidia graphics technology inside of the system and its full support for Unreal and the Unity graphics engines. But Miyamoto also said that Nintendo’s own teams are benefitting from this and have even investigated Unreal to the point where they fully understand how to get the most out of it.