The Unity Engine has become a major tool for game developers over recent years to develop for a variety of different platforms. A special version of Unity was made for the Wii U, which has allows more independent developers to work on the Wii U, but the Nintendo 3DS still does not have it. Luckily, Nintendo has revealed that they are looking into it.
At the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo Senior Manager of Marketing, Damon Baker, spoke with Siliconera about the potential of bringing Unity to the 3DS.
We’ve had those discussions and we are definitely looking at that. Our priority was to get the Wii U build [of Unity] up and done and ready. Because we need a test environment for it, it’s taken a while for Unity to get finalized on Wii U, so that we can actually test against it. So that has been made available now and that is why we’ve got all of these [game] candidates waiting in the wings that are just going through the submission process at this point. Now, we can move on to other platforms and see how we can make those compatible, either with Unity or with additional middleware providers as well.
If this happens, it will bring even more options to the already full roster of games available for the Nintendo handheld.
