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What's the big uproar about using unity for this?

Doom has its own characteristic 2.5D rendering engine, which may be difficult to replicate in Unity unless you write it as a two-triangle shader.

Yes, that seems to be the main reason

Though I would be tempted to think the original sw renderer would run just fine on Switch hardware with minor fixes (it worked in PCs much slower than the Switch). Now I don't know if the hardware (video) would behave well with that. No reason in principle why it wouldn't, but who knows...

It does run fine on the switch hardware a homebrew port has been out for quite a while. Chocolate Doom was ported last year.

I'll bite - is there some reason you're calling the switch the "stitch?"

It was a mistake - thanks for pointing it out

Oh ok sorry didn't mean to come off like jerk, I thought this might be one of those "micro$oft" things

It was Experiment #626 inside Nintendo.

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