 Remember folks the comment question of the day is how badly do you want a switch pro leave that comment to the question and answer To that question down in the comments below for a chance to be featured in a video tomorrow now We are here to talk about virtuos. They are a development company that does ports To different platforms. They are a porting specialist company and the rise in popularity of porting companies is important in the industry because Not every studio has the manpower Or even the technical know-how to properly port their games to every platform that exists out there I'm sure there's companies that specialize and even bringing things to Google stadia when that comes out so Virtuos has actually done a number of Nintendo switch ports Starling battle for Atlas being one that was key With Ubisoft because it performed better on switch than any other platform did they also did the alloy Noir remastered port as well as Dark Souls remastered. So they've done some ports of some old games They've also imported a current generation game To switch and they are also the studio that is porting the outer worlds Which recently released on Xbox station for PC all that jazz and the other worlds actually reviewed very well in the low 80s about 82 on Metacritic and It is widely considered one of the best Western RPGs to release this generation not the best obviously Witcher 3 and in other ones like that up there But some people have been looking for a replacement for Bethesda in a way because Bethesda's biggest I guess offering was Fallout 76 in this realm and Fallout 76 as we know has been pretty much a train wreck and now They have this $100 subscription thing I don't really know what they think they are doing with that game when they haven't even finished off the promise content They delayed some I Bethesda's kind of crap in the bed right now. Let's just be honest and I doesn't mean that I think that doom is going to be bad the doom eternal actually does look pretty good, but For some reason with like Fallout and stuff like that They just they're just not doing well that being said the other worlds It's kind of like a replacement for that kind of game for people who are looking for a good one and what's nice about what the creators of the game did obsidian entertainment is They instead of like trying to pack as much content into a game It's much fluff and make the world as as huge as possible So you're spending hundreds if not thousands of hours playing the game What they actually decided to do is hey, let's make this single-player RPG game this kind of sci-fi sort of game and we're gonna make it like a 30 hour experience we're gonna condense it down and Just make what we make Excellent, you know pack as much as we can into what we're trying to do Rather than trying to just captivate players forever nickel and dime them like crazy They're just trying to make a high quality game This is very old-school development mentality that we often see from Nintendo, but it's really nice to see it from other companies as well and Because it's made by obsidian some people consider that's a double-a game rather than a triple-a game There's not really a defined line between double-a and triple-a. It's definitely a triple-a game in terms of the quality But some people might consider a double-a game because of the budget or whatever they went behind it Or because it's only a 30 hour game as if that makes it worth any less I'd take 30 excellent hours over a hundred hour experience where you're bored for 50 hours of it So that being said the outer world is coming to switch It is not coming till sometime next year We don't know when maybe early next year because Virtuous is pretty good at it What we do know is that the company behind it obsidian entertainment wasn't even considering Nintendo switch for this game And they it would never be on switch if it wasn't for Virtuous and here's actually what went down And this is according to the co-game director of the outer world Leonard Boyarsky When he talked about the the port coming to switch he said we weren't sure it could be done Okay, so again very key words here. They did not think it could be done But then they they being virtuous started coming out with all these games on Nintendo switch and we thought wow That's great. Again, so I'm about Alice. I like tomorrow. Dark souls are rastered and then we saw a proof of Concept from the external team who was doing it and we were very very surprised So basically what happened is they didn't think that the other worlds was even possible on switch They saw some of the work virtuous didn't they were impressed by it Now remember a lot of people talk about panic button being like the best switch porting company But if you actually get dark souls were vaster at la noir or starling battle for atlas You got to admit virtuous is right there like panic button might not be the best virtuous actually might be the best switch Porter I think it's kind of a neck and neck race between them and and I think this other company out of Out of Australia or something it is really good at porting switch games or porting current gen games of switch as well, but What's interesting when they talk about you know concept from the external team That's a reference to virtuous basically they didn't think it could be done But virtuous was doing these things that they were impressed by it's a company that they've worked with in the past so they contacted them about the outer worlds going to switch and They didn't really think anything was going to come of it But you know they put together a proof of concept to them Which is generally a proof of concepts taking like part of the game like one area Maybe the beginning of the game or something making it run on switch it as kind of a test run To see what what obsidian thought and they were extremely surprised And that's when it got completely green lit and then virtuous went on to to port it and we'll be getting it Hopefully early next year. So this is just very interesting to see the the mindset that Developers and development studios have towards switch seems to be that they just don't think their games can run on switch They they think their games are just you know, they're too big. They're too ambitious. They're too visual heavy You know too much action going on whenever the case may be That they think it won't run on switch because it's a tablet, right? And it's not even like up the snuff with the best tablets in the world today The best tablets in the world today actually destroy the switch But here we have virtuous panic button and other porting companies proving time and time again That pretty much any game can run on switch and can run pretty well depending on what sacrifices you're willing to accept We recently got the witcher three on switch, which people are, you know raving about it in handheld mode because with the smaller screen the Resolution, you know dump to a low resolution doesn't matter The only thing that that people are really criticizing with the witcher three is that now that it's been hacked on switch There is a hidden menu that people actually just want to be there So people can turn up the sharpness because if you turn up the sharpness in the game Which the the base switch can handle a sharpness turn up. It's it makes the game Just basically you can turn off a and then use that processing power for the sharpening People think it makes the game look much much better on switch in portable and on TV mode And I got to say I haven't seen some some videos of it. It does look pretty good So that criticism aside the port itself is actually pretty good And I know some people watch those digital foundry videos that analyze all these ports and they like to mock switch because oh It's not running it as well as PlayStation 4 and Xbox But there's no foundry consistently praising these companies for how good the ports actually are given the technology They're working with and so here we have this this big, you know big giant massive game coming over we have all these other ports that have been proven possible do me turnals coming over for crying out loud and Here we have obsidian entertainment Just thinking that this game wasn't possible and switch and virtue is proving Yeah, actually it is and it's actually a really enjoyable experience. We'll port it for you. This does make you think about Capcom a little bit. I know we just talked about them in a video I you can go check that out if you if you like Maybe it's not worth a watch for you because you don't care about Capcom But Capcom released Monster Hunter world on everything but a Nintendo platform And I know there was rumors about before the contract thing that made it not come to a Nintendo platform But chances are they just weren't considering switch as a possibility because of the visuals and the ambition of the game and all that But here's the here's the thing about that a company I believe it was iron galaxy Contacted Capcom and told them hey, we want to try porting your game to switch and Capcom still said no So they had a company reach out to them and say hey at least let us make a proof of concept of Monster Hunter World on switch to see if you want it ported and they're just like now We're not even gonna consider switch and I know Capcom is Often referred to as crap calm. I called them that myself So maybe they're not a good reference point to ring up But I think it's just a general idea that a lot of the industry thinks that Their games can't run on switch when it turns out at least for PlayStation 4 and Xbox one games that You can pretty much get it running on switch if you want it's gonna be lower resolution It's gonna be lower frame rate if you're if you're targeting 60 it's gonna be You know maybe there won't be anti-aliasing and there's gonna be some texture downgrades Maybe audio downgrades or whatever the case might be But it's still gonna be a really enjoyable experience especially on the go because that is something that the other platform providers don't really have Even though there'll be a streaming service from Microsoft and xCloud that will let you kind of do that on the go So I think that this is Brilliant to see that another company is at least admitting that they didn't think their game is gonna run on switch But hey this company reached out made a proof concept and they went with it and that's awesome That's a credit to virtuous by the way again an excellent company I know they had some audio issues and some stuff with Dark Souls remastered But the actual game itself was running well and audio issues is something that can be fixed up with patches In fact, I think they fixed up some of it with patches. So I'm pretty excited about the outer world in general I have not read a single review of it I have not watched any footage of it since it was unveiled coming to switch and I don't plan to I want to go into that experience as fresh as I can on switch next year And I'm really hoping it's an excellent port job and I have full faith in virtuous just like I do in panic button To to make a high-quality port for switch So and obsidian seems really thrilled about it as well because they didn't think switch was even a possible platform if they If they had actually considered switch from the get-go and hired virtuous from the get-go We might have got the outer world at launch. So It sucks. We got to wait but Again, a lot of these third-party companies just aren't viewing switch as a viable platform for their products When it's proving time and time again, it is now. I think this bodes well for potential third-party games in 2020 I think any company that thought their game was not possible and switch or too big for switch or whatever the case might be Look at games like the Witcher 3 look at the outer world look at do me turn all and they say Oh, we can put our games on switch. We just need to hire the right porting company that specializes in it, but After 2020 I think is when things get really interesting with the PlayStation 5 and the next Xbox on the market Both platforms are massive jumps in terms of their performance level from PlayStation 4 Even PlayStation 4 pro and Xbox one X they'll leap to these next-gen platforms based on what we're being told anyways And what's rumored out there is such a huge gap that I don't know how many games made for those platforms are going to be downported in 2021 and 2022 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox which means less opportunities to also bring the switch because even though you could still get PlayStation 5 games to run on Nintendo switch you could That might get to the point where yeah, but the sacrifices are going to be so great That they're not gonna view it as viable and there's already people that think the sacrifices right now aren't viable Of course, most of those people being people that don't actually own a switch I have no intention of buying a switch and they just want to mock anyone who who happens to play games and switch that are Inferior versions. I can't tell you how many people like when I was at GameStop the other day I was selling a PlayStation 4 and Xbox controller, and I had laying around And there's some people in there because I was asking about the Witcher 3 and switch and how well it was selling in the store You know if they could just give me a ballpark idea and it actually sold pretty well They only have like one physical copy left And I was just talking to them a bit about it and so people said why would you play Witcher 3 on switch? Don't you know, it's like the worst version. Why don't you play it on PC one? I own Witcher 3 and PC so I have thanks. Thanks for asking And two because it's a lot harder to take a laptop with and just play it anywhere. I am Then it is switch. It's just more convenient and and that's really the reason why you get any of these games on switch It's convenient switch provides a convenience that isn't currently offered by anything else now streaming services coming out Are going to challenge that a little bit But again nothing beats playing a game natively on a platform versus streaming at least not right now Maybe there might be a day, you know decade from now 15 years from now where it's so seamless with streaming Even over 5g networks or or anything that you can't tell the latency difference But for now you can tell the latency difference So I think it's a big deal to have these games native on switch. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning into this I hope you enjoyed this little video on the outer worlds I want to I want to thank you for like dropping a like on this video commenting Subscribing for more content all that I am Nathaniel Roppelgeist from Nintendo Prime and I will catch you in the next video