Take a look at the end of the Yoshi trailer. Did you notice it the first time? I sure didn’t. Yoshi for the Nintendo Switch is running on an Unreal Engine, and according to the official Unreal Engine Japanese Twitter account, it is running Unreal Engine 4.
ヨッシー新作は #UE4 !!! https://t.co/Rfc3Vgze7c
— Unreal Engine Japan (@UnrealEngineJP) June 13, 2017
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. During a February investor call Mr. Miyamoto announced Nintendo was using Unreal Engine 4 and had “mastered it.”
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