Ark: Survival Evolved Won’t Be Missing Anything With Switch Version

Though the Nintendo Switch has been getting a lot of big 3rd party titles, some of them haven’t had the “full experience”. For example, when it got Doom last year, it didn’t have the map creator ability. And Skyrim didn’t have mod support, and other little details like that. So when Ark: Survival Evolved got announced for the system, many wondered if the game would be missing anything as it got ported over.

One of the heads of Abstraction Studios, John Day, was asked about this and he noted that content-wise, the Nintendo version of Ark: Survival Evolved won’t be lacking anything:

“I’m unaware of any significant features or content that Ark: Survival Evolved Switch is lacking or otherwise. I’m pretty sure it’s pretty much that game. As I said, seeing as it’s on the Switch we have had to make a couple of adaptations to ensure… I mean not only in terms of things like performance but also in terms of controls and user interface and things like that.”

That being said, he did note that graphically the Switch wasn’t as powerful as the others, and so the game will look slightly different:

“Well, I mean I guess we can go into kind of the technical finer points of it. You’re absolutely right. The Switch does not have the horsepower of a high-end… or even a PS4. It’s not actually particularly close to that. But as I said before, we are an engineering company. We have extraordinarily smart people who do very technical things very, very well and so by doing things like procedurally reducing meshes on assets and dynamically scaling the resolution in intelligent ways and things like that, we can manage some of that performance.”

Still, with graphics being the only major change, it seems like Ark: Survival Evolved will be a perfect game to have on Switch.