Digital Eclipse on the Switch "getting on in years," and interest in a Nintendo historical collab
A dream pairing?
Digital Eclipse has been cranking out some really interesting content lately. We’ve seen the studio create what are basically digital, playable history lessons with The Making of Karateka and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. There’s no doubt Digital Eclipse will be putting out more projects in the same vein, but some of those might be tough to achieve on Switch.
In an interview with VGC, Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler spoke about emulating older platforms for these museum-style games. While the Switch can keep up with things now, doing similar projects for games that released on later hardware make the situation a bit tough on Switch.
And so we kind of top out with modern hardware, especially with – I love you Nintendo, but – with the Nintendo Switch, it’s getting on in years and it’s more difficult to emulate later platforms and have them be performant on the Switch. And so, there is a little bit of a division there in terms of what we’re doing.
Digital Eclipse will obviously have more museum-style collection games to offer in the future, but could there ever be a chance of working with Nintendo to create a project? While nothing is official at this point, Kohler does see a slight window of opportunity for such a collab.
Well, you know, historically, Other Ocean [who previously owned Digital Eclipse] did Minecraft 3DS Edition for Nintendo, and we’ve done stuff with Nintendo as a company historically in the past. So I don’t think the door is closed, so you know, we’ll see what the future will bring. But certainly nothing is in development at this time.
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