Rainbow Six Siege probably won’t be coming to Switch (Picture: Ubisoft)

Ubisoft has stated it’s ‘not possible’ to bring Rainbow Six Siege to the Nintendo Switch.

The company’s handheld hybrid has received numerous ports like DOOM and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus over the past year, with Diablo III also recently announced for the platform.

Considering Ubisoft’s renowned affinity with Nintendo, having joined forces on Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and the upcoming Starlink, it raises the question of whether the company could port their high-profile titles like Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six Siege to the platform.

Rainbow Six Siege is paying particular focus to the PC scene (Picture: Nintendo)

Regarding the latter, Ubisoft have explained how the platform’s technical limitations would prevent Rainbow Six Siege running to a competent standard — relying on a stable 60 FPS frame rate and destructible environments.




Asked about bringing the game to Switch by Metro GameCentral, Rainbow Six Siege brand director Alexandre Remy, said: ‘‘[It’s] not possible with the technical constraint and especially the frame rate of the game; 60 frames per second plus destruction is a bit CPU heavy and Switch is not yet the Nintendo console where it’ll be.

‘But overall it’s true Rainbow Six is very much a game where we just want to expand the player base, because the more player’s we do have the better the whole game and services. So if at one point that is a possibility that we have new platforms or new hardware, we’ll likely get there.

‘That said, we have been having in the past year a huge focus on PC, not only on esports but also on the development side of things, so that’s where we believe the growth is going to be the fastest and the strongest.’

Game director on Rainbow Six Siege, Leroy Athanassoff, said: ‘I don’t think they consider it for now.

‘It might come from another studio but I would be really surprised because this game without the 60 FPS is not exactly the same game. 60 FPS on Switch with procedural destruction? Good luck.

‘But maybe because it’s starting to be an old game, maybe they might. But I don’t think it’ll be us anyway, it’ll be another studio.’

Ubisoft recently announced they’ve cancelled development on a Switch version of Steep, while their ‘indie’ offerings Child Of Light and Valiant Hearts: The Great War will release on the platform later this year.

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