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Hero of Legend · Jun 28, 2016

CONTRACT - Software Engineer in Test, Networking (NTD) (160000004A)
https://nintendo.taleo.net/careerse...l?job=160000004A&lang=en#.V3KuLnq4KWw.twitter

CONTRACT - Software Engineer, Graphics Engine (NTD) (160000003Z)
https://nintendo.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?job=160000003Z&lang=en&src=SNS-10380

In both:

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS

BS or MS in related field (MS preferred)

Excellent programming skills and knowledge of C

Excellent software design, problem solving and debugging skills

OpenGL or DirectX programming recommended

Familiarity with existing game engines (such as UE4) is a plus

Pretty good hint at potential UE4 support on NX I would think.

Tatsumi Oga · Jun 28, 2016

That should i guess mean that it will be at least on par with Xbox One hardware?

georly · Jun 28, 2016

It'd be a bigger news story if NX *didn't* support UE4, i think.

Job description is neat.

cw_sasuke · Jun 28, 2016

Anything else would be nuts - obv. familiarity with one of the most used game engines is appreciated.

Tatsumi Oga said:
That should i guess mean that it will be at least on par with Xbox One hardware?

UE4 is on mobiles as well - doesnt mean much.

DecoReturns · Jun 28, 2016

An obvious sign for Metriod Prime 4. Right fellas?

Nightbird · Jun 28, 2016

that's nice

darkness_s · Jun 28, 2016

georly said:
It'd be a bigger news story if NX *didn't* supper UE4, i think.

Job description is neat.

You want NX to have UE4 for dinner?

ShockingAlberto · Jun 28, 2016

Tatsumi Oga said:
That should i guess mean that it will be at least on par with Xbox One hardware?

or an iphone

NOLA_Gaffer · Jun 28, 2016

Didn't know NeoGAF doubled as a jobs listing website.

L Thammy · Jun 28, 2016

They're probably going to rip off Unreal Engine and make Super Mario Maker 2: AAA World
Free to all nindies

NOLA_Gaffer said:
Didn't know NeoGAF doubled as a jobs listing website.

Which is the less creepy solution to the desire for Nintendo news: looking through jobs listings or looking through Retro's windows?

georly · Jun 28, 2016

darkness_s said:
You want NX to have UE4 for dinner?

Shit.

Yes....

wrowa · Jun 28, 2016

So, the NX will at least be as modern as pretty much every smartphone currently on the market.

Yay.

Wishmaster92 · Jun 28, 2016

Tatsumi Oga said:
That should i guess mean that it will be at least on par with Xbox One hardware?

At the very least

Richie · Jun 28, 2016

NOLA_Gaffer said:
Didn't know NeoGAF doubled as a jobs listing website.

Started back in the PS3 era

Vigilant Gambit · Jun 28, 2016

Oh, shit! I've been using UE4 on the side from day one.

*applies for Graphics Engine job*

Thanks, OP.

Neoxon · Jun 28, 2016

So is Nintendo finally gonna adopt existing engines for their games or is this just for making sure such engines work on the NX Platform?

Regiruler · Jun 28, 2016

Wait where is the job located? This is exactly the career path I am looking for.

EDIT: At NoA? I'd apply in a fucking heartbeat if my education was further along

ShockingAlberto · Jun 28, 2016

NOLA_Gaffer said:
Didn't know NeoGAF doubled as a jobs listing website.

I assumed everyone here was just posting from work, anyway.

foltzie1 · Jun 28, 2016

NOLA_Gaffer said:
Didn't know NeoGAF doubled as a jobs listing website.

Thats covered under Gaf Gold memberships.

KingBroly · Jun 28, 2016

NTD is where, exactly? Is it a new name for NST?

Mario v. DK Unreal March of the Minis incoming

Inuhanyou · Jun 28, 2016

Glad to see Nintendo finally getting with basic compatibility of modern engines.

It would be far more concerning if they didn't have atleast flexibility with engine toolsets. And they obviously are going to launch a unit capable of using that engine. Its 2016

Regiruler · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
NTD is where, exactly? Is it a new name for NST?

Mario v. DK Unreal March of the Minis incoming

Did a google search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Subsidiaries

Fragments of R&D are located in NoA and NoE. NTD is with NoA alongside NST.

AntMurda · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
NTD is where, exactly? Is it a new name for NST?

Mario v. DK Unreal March of the Minis incoming

NTD has been around for 20 years. They are a technology developer separate from NST.

DownGrader · Jun 28, 2016

OpenGL or DirectX programming recommended

NX was Project Scorpio all along!

Neoxon · Jun 28, 2016

Regiruler said:
Did a google search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Subsidiaries

Fragments of R&D are located in NoA and NoE. NTD is with NoA alongside NST.

Then yeah, this is most likely to ensure that the NX Console works with UE4 optimally & can reach out to western developers if they run into any issues.

Parham · Jun 28, 2016

UE4 support is probably a given. That said, the posting says they're looking for people that have familiarity with any existing modern game engine, including, and probably not limited to, UE4. They likely want people who work with these tools and understand what kind of expectations developers have when building their games for the NX.

thefro · Jun 28, 2016

Not shocking news, but it's nice to get some information to corroborate the rumors earlier this year about NX having Unreal 4 & Unity support out of the box.

Neoxon said:
So is Nintendo finally gonna adopt existing engines for their games or is this just for making sure such engines work on the NX Platform?

Seems like it's for the System OS. This doesn't mean that the System OS is a wreck and they're putting in UE4 support late, just that they need more headcount.

AcademicSaucer · Jun 28, 2016

I really want to know what N.E.R.D. is doing, their job listings last year were intriguing.

KingBroly · Jun 28, 2016

Regiruler said:
Did a google search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Subsidiaries

Fragments of R&D are located in NoA and NoE. NTD is with NoA alongside NST.

I've never heard of them before.

Roo · Jun 28, 2016

Neoxon said:
So is Nintendo finally gonna adopt existing engines for their games or is this just for making sure such engines work on the NX Platform?

Most likely the latter.

Hero of Legend · Jun 28, 2016

The initial one popped on my timeline va Nintendo Enthusiast (they're banned I think hence why I didn't link to them), but the second one is easy to find on Nintendo's actual job listings twitter:

https://twitter.com/jobsatnintendo

Edit: Ah I see thefro posted it before me in the Year of NX thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=208594080&postcount=2392

Regiruler · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
I've never heard of them before.

I didn't either, so maybe they're new?

I've heard of NERD before but that may just be because its dumb name turns heads.

Alistair Roo said:
Most likely the latter.

Hopefully the latter.

You can get so much more out of a system with a well-made proprietary engine than a third party one that needs layers of abstraction to work.

KingBroly · Jun 28, 2016

I'm starting to get the feeling that NX is further out than we think.

Trago · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
I'm starting to get the feeling that NX is further out than we think.

By further you mean March next year right?

Regiruler · Jun 28, 2016

Trago said:
By further you mean March next year right?

I was already expecting May, to be quite honest.

KingBroly · Jun 28, 2016

Trago said:
By further you mean March next year right?

I mean I feel like they're going to delay this thing. This feels like something they should've had 9-12 months ago.

LewieP · Jun 28, 2016

Interesting.

I imagine that robust UE4, Unity and hopefully Game Maker support for the NX home console and handheld are a dead cert.

Many of the games that I think they'd have a good chance at getting are on these.

They need to minimize the amount of platform specific work required to release on their hardware as much as possible if they want any kind of third party support.

Vena · Jun 28, 2016

UE4? Japan is saved!*

KingBroly said:
I mean I feel like they're going to delay this thing. This feels like something they should've had 9-12 months ago.

For a hiring? Headcounts change all the time. Read thefro's post. They've been working on UE4/Unity support (as has been leaked) for some time and want it 'out of the box' ready.

*If NX is a handheld with UE4.

Harlock · Jun 28, 2016

Mario in Unreal 4 engine, why not?

DownGrader · Jun 28, 2016

Regiruler said:
I've heard of NERD before but that may just be because its dumb name turns heads.

NERD are former ActImagine/MobiClip folks, you probably heard about them for their eponymous video codec used in Professor Layton games.

After the acqiural by Nintendo, they've made Wii U Internet Browser, Nintendo DS emulator for Wii U Virtual Console and the technology behind downloadable Wii games on Wii U.

KingBroly · Jun 28, 2016

DownGrader said:
NERD are former ActImagine/MobiClip folks, you probably heard about them for their eponymous video codec used in Professor Layton games.

After the acqiural by Nintendo, they've made Wii U Internet Browser, Nintendo DS emulator for Wii U Virtual Console and the technology behind downloadable Wii games on Wii U.

So NERD is the reason the Wii U VC emulators are shit?

Rodin · Jun 28, 2016

ShockingAlberto said:
or an iphone

Well, surely they're after those iOS games. That's why the Wii U had UE4 support since D1.

Rösti · Jun 28, 2016

Great news for portability. When it comes to scalability, Unreal Engine 4 is awesome.

Ridley327 · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
So NERD is the reason the Wii U VC emulators are shit?

Isn't DS emulation pretty damn good on the Wii U? I sure can't complain about how well they figured out the downloadable Wii games, either.

-shadow- · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
So NERD is the reason the Wii U VC emulators are shit?

I doubt NERD is the reason the games are so dark knowing that a lot of the settings go unused for some odd reason. And I'm not surprised of NCL is being difficult about it.

DownGrader · Jun 28, 2016

KingBroly said:
So NERD is the reason the Wii U VC emulators are shit?

NERD has only made the DS one, and it's, as homebrewers report, a very solid and good-engineered piece of software. Being slightly modified, it even allows playing DS games (any ones - the injection process is pretty straightforward) with double native resolution.

Another good Wii U VC emulator is the GBA one, made by none other than M2.

So, (other) Nintendo's emulators are subpar, but definitely not because of NERD.

TheJoRu · Jun 28, 2016

Ridley327 said:
Isn't DS emulation pretty damn good on the Wii U? I sure can't complain about how well they figured out the downloadable Wii games, either.

Yep, it's good. So is the downloadable Wii games; Gamepad support is pretty great. I don't know what else they've done, but everything on DownGrader's list is stuff that I think were well done.

TH-Work · Jun 28, 2016

There is no date, is it sure that these jobs are up to date and not years old?

Lord_Byron28 · Jun 28, 2016

TH-Work said:
There is no date, is it sure that these jobs are up to date and not years old?

I seem to recall this being posted over a year ago on this forum.

Cuburt · Jun 28, 2016

Why does the discussion automatically shift to being/or not being a sign about power?

I'd actually find these threads interesting if it was about discussing relevant shit like "What does that mean for 1st party/2nd party use of a 3rd party engines?" "Is Nintendo trying to build a comparably featured engine?" "Is Nintendo taking steps to provide UE4 support for people developing on their console, similar to Unity with the Wii U?" etc. etc.

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