Rocket League is advancing to the Nintendo Switch afterwards this year, and I played it at the Electronic Entertainment Expo bold industry accident in Los Angeles. I already wrote about how developer Psyonix is balked with Sony about blocking cross-platform multiplayer amid the consoles, but I aswell got to allocution to the flat about authoritative the Switch bold as able-bodied as absolution Rocket League in China and more.

Psyonix is currently in the action of optimizing Rocket League for the Switch. If I got to play it with a Pro Controller on the television, I begin that it was the aforementioned vehicular soccer bold I apperceive able-bodied from the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One (yes, I own it for all three platforms). Rocket League will hit Nintendo’s amalgam home/handheld Switch afterwards this year, and Psyonix publishing bang-up Jeremy Dunham said that the aggregation is targeting 720p and 60 frames per additional both on TV and the system’s committed screen. That agency no 1080p, but the aggregation absitively that wasn’t as important to ensuring the accurate Rocket League acquaintance on Switch.

“Our accomplished ambition for Rocket League on Switch was that we capital it to attending and feel absolutely like Rocket League on added platforms,” Dunham told GamesBeat. “We didn’t wish to accomplish any compromises.”

One of the above challenges with the anchorage is that Rocket League runs on Unreal Engine 3. Nintendo formed with Epic to body abutment for Unreal 4 into the Switch, but the beforehand adaptation of that game-development apparatus doesn’t plan absolutely as well.

“We feel absolutely assured about it,” said Dunham. “In the beginning, we weren’t so sure. We had to do custom work. The Switch by itself doesn’t accept inherent Unreal 3 support. It alone has Unreal 4. To abutment 3, we had to do custom work.”

That custom plan didn’t absorb porting Rocket League to Switch. Psyonix’s bold aboriginal debuted in 2015 afore Unreal 4 was everywhere, and it would crave a lot of activity to accompany the bold into that new framework. Instead, it’s the aforementioned bold on Switch as it consistently was on the added systems, and the flat already afresh brought in co-developer Panic Button to do this anchorage afterwards it auspiciously brought the bold to Xbox One.

But while Dunham mentioned the aggregation didn’t wish to accomplish sacrifices with the Switch version, he accustomed that these weren’t unavoidable.

“The capital accommodation we had to accomplish is we’re active the bold in 720p rather than 1080p, even on the TV,” he said. “It’s our assessment that it’s abundant added benign for the bold to run fast at 60 frames per additional than to attending the complete best. We’ll address at 60 frames per additional for the docked adaptation and the undocked version.”

Rocket League will aswell abutment two-player splitscreen in all modes. It can aswell do four-player splitscreen if docked and affiliated to a TV. For the former, the bold will run at 60 fps, but it will bead down to 30 fps in the closing mode. That’s agnate to Mario Kart.

But overall, Dunham explained that enhancement was zooming forth and that the bold was active bigger than they accepted at this point.

“We’re in fact advanced of area we anticipation we’d be,” he said. “We didn’t anticipate we would accept it active this smooth, this early. For a while we were anxious about whether we’d accept annihilation to appearance at E3 at all. We accept a actual accomplished aggregation at Psyonix. Our engineers accept done a lot of harder plan to accomplish abiding this runs as able-bodied as it does already. We’ve already apparent things in the endure few weeks that we weren’t acquainted of a few weeks ago. It’s already fabricated the bold accomplish incredibly. We’re actual encouraged.”

Dunham expects that even Rocket League pros will adulation the Switch adaptation and accepting the advantage to play it anywhere after defective a gaming laptop.