Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch™

[Ida-Marie]

This is really good news!

I believe this is a huge leap forward in the development of Factorio. If the staff have spent the time to develop it to Nintendo Switch, it is well invested time, not because of the port to the Switch itself, but because:
* It is actually now ported to ARM, which means porting it to other ARM devices is not far away (Yay RPi4 and Mac M1/M2!).
* It is also ported to a console, which means new input options and soon also layouts for Steam Deck (and probably a slight review for Mac too because the inputs is not really convenient as is now, there is slight differences between a Mac keyboard and touchpad/mouse and a PC).
* Improvement in code, which means there is a lot of work done to combat bugs and desyncs.
* We will soon be able to build even larger factories, and faster too, because ARM is superior to x86_64.
* Having compatibility between two architectures means the leap to a third, fourth etc is less. I believe I'll see a Power and RISC-V port sooner or later.

There are some arguing that Mac users don't play Factorio, but in fact, I'm a Linux user which decided to buy myself a Mac M1 because the hardware is far superior to other x86_64 laptops. The M1 is comparable to a stationary computer in performance, however the amount of RAM is limited for me (8 GiB), which could be alleviated by compiling a native M1/M2 port. In fact, I'm so content with my M1 so I'd love to upgrade in the future, but not before the M3 has been released. And I do look forward to play Factorio on my Mac!

[ptx0]

As a few other said I would really like a cart release of the game. It might not be right away and I don't care if it costs me 2 or 3 times more. I just want to have it a decade from now when my switch breaks and nintendo has closed the switch store... It'd be amazing gift too.

i'd pay like 300 bucks for a collectors edition in a display case thing lol

[SteveCinOh]

Here's to hoping it comes to Xbox Series of consoles. I thought it was said there would never be a port :0.

I feel ya brother, love watching streamers play, but only have a series x. Would love to see this game come to xbox. They would def get my money.

[spiro9]

My main beef is the total lack of mod support. I've gotten so used to playing with mods that not having them is a near-dealbreaker...

[Logoufacto]

Now the Switch 2 is coming soon. Is there any information about whether there will be a patch for it so that it can continue to be used there? Apparently, it's only partially compatible.

[Twinsen]

We don't have any more information other than what is public.
I want to work on the Nintendo Switch 2 version but we don't have access to the development environment yet.

[renef]

I loaded a save from my Switch 1 on the Switch 2 and played for about 2 minutes. It runs super smooth. Mouse mode didn't seem to work, but didn't expect it to work.

It was growing into a small megabase, but was just way to slow on the switch to play anymore. Now on the switch 2 the blue belts are actually fast belts again and the bots are flying super fast everywhere. Looking forward very much to picking it up again, but I've just too many other games to try first now.

The compatibility list from Nintendo has been updated as well and most games (including factorio) are fixed now:
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-syst ... ble-games/

Would be great to have space age, but at least now it runs well you can just focus on a real port for the switch 2 (no clue if that will be a lot of work) instead of trying to fix the compatibility with switch 1.