Yoshi is coming to the Nintendo Switch at some point next year and it looks as adorable as you would expect a brand new Yoshi game to look. Interestingly, we have found out that the game has been built using Unreal Engine 4. The news was broadcast on Twitter and just goes to show how flexible and impressive the video game engine is.
Nintendo is making the new Yoshi game with Unreal! https://t.co/cogN5zSvVa
— Dana Cowley (@danacowley) June 13, 2017
And it still looks like a Wii game. Hell, even a gamecube game in certain parts. /yawn.
You clearly need to go back and play your Wii and/or Gamecube. You are going to be *seriously* disappointed by what the graphics on those consoles actually look like.
Don’t hold it against him. I’m fairly certain he’s not old enough to have played those consoles.
Nah. And I’m aware of the games on those consoles, seeing as how I own them. There are some exceptionally great-looking games on the GC and Wii (few and far between on the latter, but they are there when devs take the time to actually make games look good). All this game has going for it is some interesting texture and lighting in places that makes it look a bit nicer, but in general, this game would look the same regardless of whether UE4 was used or not.
@cronatose haha, no. Typical ignorant response when you can’t actually argue your point is to go with an ad hominem attack. I’m fairly certain you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t have the intellectual capacity to make your point in any sort of logical manner. But I won’t hold it against you. I’m old enough to know when I’m dealing with those with a lower IQ than me.
Cuz you don’t know the feeling of the game. They cannot do a realistic Yoshi game. It’s just don’t fit well m8.
Shut your dumb retarded ass up you onion head muthafucka lol
What’s wrong.
Ooooooooo don’t get so mad just because I’m right. Tsk tsk.
Clean off the dust from your pc/mobile screen.
Shut your dumbass up. It doesn’t look like the gamecube version. You don’t know shit.
Well, I said that it “looks like a GC game in parts”, and considering that there IS no Yoshi game on the GC, don’t you look a bit foolish now? But go ahead and throw more baseless insults because stringing together words entailing a cohesive and intelligent opinion hurts your brain.
And why?
Ive played this already on my WiiU why would i bother playing it again for Switch?? SwitchFail
Get the hell out, Ritch the Beeyatch!
That’s not my name, Ritch the dick sucking fag!
I never realised that Wii and Gamecube games looked so good.
Shut up Tony the Foot Lover hahaha
You don’t know my identity, Ritch the dick sucking fag. Or should I call you NEUTRON WILLIAMS.
Sickr… please delete Ritchi (Neutron Williams) offensive comment and my reply immediately.
Wow this game in UE4. Congratulations Nintendo. I hope I can be good on game development.
I already know it was develop for the engine because of the switch.
Damn, UE4?!?! But it looks so basic, I’m so afraid of this game to enter in the New Island quality class.
It looks basic??? Please, watch the video again.
Deez guys when they heard UE4 think always amazing graphics or realistic graphics.
I watched the vido THREE TIMES, and IS LOOKING BASIC!! Yeah, it’s pretty stylized, fluid, but not the kind of thing I would believe that was made in UE4.
The development team at Good-Feel have done an outstanding job of using Unreal Engine 4 on one of the most iconic Nintendo characters. I’ll look forward to the finalized name of Yoshi’s new and exclusive Nintendo Switch title.
… You guys have fun either disliking or liking the game. I got other greater games to look forward to on Switch than some stupid yawn game. lol
Unreal Engine 4 is a demanding engine, whether the game is simple or complex, it’s still requires lots of horsepower to run it. Wii U would NEVER run UE4 let alone UR3 since it was hard to develop for.
This is great news and really showcases UE4 in many different ways, not just to look realistic.
No, it doesn’t require “lots of horsepower” and the Wii U could have run it, it was just never ported over. UE4 has been running on phones for years now.
https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/Resources/files/GDC2014_Next_Generation_Mobile_Rendering-2033767592.pdf
Unreal Engine 4 is used in PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. A modified version of UE4 is used on iOS and Android. Switch was barely powerful enough to run it. Wii U couldn’t even run CryEngine 3.
It’s not a modified version for iOS and Android. It’s the same engine but, like all engines, it’s has forks in it’s feature set and default settings for different hardware. You don’t really “run” an engine. The engine does have some base code that’s common across all games that use that engine but that’s not exactly taxing. Most of the engine consists of development tools and libraries that devs can use to make games easily.
As for CryEngine 3, the Wii U could run CryEngine 3. Sonic Boom used it.
So you’re saying that the engine can run on any console? No. The console itself needs to be able to run the engine properly so it can run the game well too. Like I previously stated whether the game is simple or complex if the console cannot run the engine, it cannot run the game that it designed for.
I’m not stating it can run on a Super Nintendo or an N64 or anything but it can run on any modern hardware that the engine supports. Unreal Engine 4 was designed to scale from cell phones to PCs and its minimum was requirements are very very low. The PDF I linked you to even suggests it can run on anything that supports OpenGL ES 3 or higher. There are 57 GFLOP mobile chips dating back to the beginning of 2014 that can run UE4 games provided it’s not doing anything overly complex graphically so saying that a device is “powerful enough” to run UE4 isn’t saying much. In fact, Armature is porting UE4 to the Vita and it has a 28 GFLOP GPU that’s only OpenGL ES 2 compliant.
As long as the hardware can run it, which today many things are pretty powerful.
Man, 2018? This year really IS a dead year for the Switch (for me). Aside from that Rabbids game looking interesting. But I don’t know when that will be released. I’ve been mourning for Pikmin. I heard MONTHS ago that Pikmin 4 was near complete. Well, WHERE IS IT?
Rumors are never true