For most developers, nothing upfront. We cover the full cost of porting your game ourselves, from code and QA to certification and dev kits, and recoup it from royalties after launch. The revenue split is agreed per project, based on the game’s scope and the target platforms. You carry no financial risk: if your ported game doesn’t sell, we don’t earn either. Contact us and we’ll assess your game and propose terms.

Porting is the process of adapting a game originally developed for one platform – such as PC – so it runs natively on another, such as PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch. It involves rewriting platform-specific code, meeting certification requirements, and ensuring performance parity with the original release.

Difficulty varies depending on the engine, original codebase quality, and target platform. Games built on well-documented engines like Unity or Unreal are generally easier to port than custom engines. Each console platform also has unique SDK requirements and certification processes. Our team has navigated all of these across 60+ console ports.

A typical port takes between three and nine months, depending on the game’s scope and the target platform’s certification timeline. We provide a detailed project schedule during the scope assessment phase.

The term comes from software engineering, where “porting” referred to adapting software to run on a different operating system or hardware architecture. The word derives from the Latin portare – to carry. In gaming, it means carrying a game from one platform to another.

As a publisher. We don’t sell porting as a pay-per-project service. We port your game at our own cost and publish it on the new platforms, and you earn royalties on sales. The exact terms are agreed per project.