Unity Now Available for New Nintendo 3DS

<p>The Unity 3D Engine is one of the most used game engines going right now&comma; but one of its main missing features was a lack of support for games on the Nintendo 3DS&period; As of today&comma; Andrew Innes of Unity Technologies has announced that <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blogs&period;unity3d&period;com&sol;2016&sol;01&sol;29&sol;unity-comes-to-new-nintendo-3ds&sol;">the engine will now support<&sol;a> the New Nintendo 3DS&period; The first game to be announced as supporting the New Nintendo 3DS is <em>Wind Up Knight 2<&sol;em>&comma; which was released on Wii U in August of 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This news has been a long time coming&comma; as Unity Technologies has been discussing a plan to make Unity accessible for New Nintendo 3DS developers at both of their Unite Tokyo and Unite Europe conferences in 2015&period; The engine could be used on the original 3DS but only in a limited capacity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The first question people usually ask is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;do you support the original Nintendo 3DS too&quest;”  To which the answer is a qualified &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;yes”&period; We can generate ROM images which are compatible with the original Nintendo 3DS&comma; and there are certainly some types of game which will run perfectly well on it&comma; but for the majority of games we strongly recommend targeting the New Nintendo 3DS for maximum gorgeousness&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;-Andrew Innes&comma; Unity Technologies<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Those who enroll in the Nintendo Developer Program will have free access to Unity for the New Nintendo 3DS&period; There are still some caveats in place though&comma; as most of the work was simply made to have the editor work for the New 3DS&period; Some features such as Shadow Maps and UNet are not available in this release of the application&comma; but will likely be updated in further iterations&period; The Japanese version of Wind Up Knight 2 went on sale at the end of last year for the New Nintendo 3DS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blogs&period;unity3d&period;com&sol;2016&sol;01&sol;29&sol;unity-comes-to-new-nintendo-3ds&sol;">Unity<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;