Question 1

What does a game porting studio do?

Accepted Answer

It takes a finished game and makes it run well on a new platform, reworking rendering, input, memory, storefront hooks, and anything that has to pass the target platform's certification. The design is already done, so porting is mostly engineering.

Question 2

How much does it cost to port a game?

Accepted Answer

Porting is billed as engineering time: roughly $35-60/hour entry, $60-120 mid, and $120-250 senior, with most work needing mid-to-senior engineers. The total depends on how different the platforms are and how cleanly the original was built, so get a fixed bid only after the studio reviews your code.

Question 3

Does the studio handle platform certification?

Accepted Answer

Some do and some do not, so ask directly. A studio that has passed Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo certification before will run submission for you and save weeks of resubmissions. First-time cert on a new platform is slower and riskier.

Question 4

Which studios are best for game porting and remasters?

Accepted Answer

Porting and remastering are engineering jobs, so the best studios are the ones that have shipped ports on your exact target hardware and run platform certification themselves. 61 of the 542 studios in this directory list porting as a service. Ask which titles they ported, from which platform to which, and whether they passed Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo cert without a resubmission.

Question 5

Which studios port and remaster games across platforms?

Accepted Answer

Studios that list porting handle PC to console, console to PC, either of those to Nintendo Switch, and older titles to current hardware. In this directory PC is the most widely covered destination, with Android, Xbox and PlayStation close behind and Nintendo Switch the narrowest of the five; 61 studios list porting specifically. Filter for porting plus your destination platform, since console experience does not transfer between vendors.

Question 6

Who handles high-quality game ports across platforms?

Accepted Answer

A high-quality port holds a stable frame rate and passes certification, rather than just compiling on the new hardware. The studios that deliver that have platform-specific optimization experience, meaning they rework asset streaming, memory budgets, and input instead of lowering settings. Ask for frame-rate figures from a shipped port on the same hardware, and take a fixed bid only after they have read your code.

Question 7

Which studios are best for game porting and co-development?

Accepted Answer

Few studios do both well, so check which one is the real specialty. Porting is contained platform engineering against a finished design; co-development means their engineers work in your codebase and sprint board on unfinished features. In this directory 61 studios list porting, and a similarly small number list co-development. If you need both, buy the port as a fixed scope and the co-dev seats separately.

Question 8

Which game porting companies also run certification?

Accepted Answer

Some do and some stop at the build, so ask before you shortlist. Running certification means the studio holds a registered developer account and dev kits for that platform, works through the technical requirement checklist, submits the build, and turns around whatever comes back. It is platform-specific: a studio that has passed Nintendo cert has not necessarily passed Sony's. Ask which of your target platforms they have submitted on, whose publisher account the build goes out under, and who pays for the engineering time when a submission fails. Certification is its own question rather than part of the porting tag, so put it to every studio on your shortlist.

Question 9

What do game porting services include?

Accepted Answer

Ask for the line items, because porting covers a wide scope. A full port normally includes the platform layer — rendering, input, memory, file I/O, save and storefront hooks — plus the performance work to hold the target frame rate, controller and UI rework, platform features such as achievements, testing on dev kits, and certification prep. What often sits outside the quote, and is worth naming: engine version upgrades, new or reworked content, localization, age ratings, and patches after launch on the new platform. Middleware licences for the target platform are the other common gap. Get each one written down as in or out before you compare two bids.

Question 10

Which game co-development companies specialize in porting titles across platforms?

Accepted Answer

Studios on this list that take porting work include Iron Galaxy Studios, QLOC and Kevuru Games. A few full-service co-development groups also run porting as a separate line, but the specialization that matters here is platform engineering, not team size: ask which platforms a candidate has actually shipped on and whether it ran certification itself. Confirm it can show a port it took from your exact source platform to your target one, not just co-development experience on an unrelated title, since the two skills do not transfer automatically.

Question 11

Which console porting companies are best for bringing PC and mobile games to new platforms?

Accepted Answer

Studios on this list that take porting work include Iron Galaxy Studios, QLOC and Kevuru Games. Bringing a PC or mobile title to console adds a fixed memory budget, controller input and a certification checklist the original build never had to pass, so ask specifically about that direction rather than console-to-console experience. Confirm which console platforms a candidate holds developer accounts for, request a shipped example that moved from your exact source platform, and get a fixed bid only once the studio has reviewed your code.

Question 12

Which game development studio is best for porting a PC game to Switch without losing visual quality?

Accepted Answer

Studios on this list that take porting work include Iron Galaxy Studios, QLOC and Kevuru Games. A PC-to-Switch port is usually the hardest direction here, because Switch's memory and thermal budget sits far below a PC's, and holding visual quality means real optimization work — rebuilt asset streaming, lowered draw distances, adjusted lighting — rather than a settings toggle. Ask a candidate for a shipped PC-to-Switch title, request the resolution and frame-rate figures Nintendo certified, and confirm it owns the asset-streaming changes rather than just a graphics-settings pass.

Studio	City	Country	Team size	Founded	Engines	Platforms	Services
Iron Galaxy Studios	Chicago	United States	201-500	2008	Unity, Unreal Engine, Custom Engine	PC, PlayStation, Xbox +1	Programming, Full Production, Porting +1
QLOC	Warsaw	Poland	501-1000	2009	Unreal Engine, Custom Engine	PC, PlayStation, Xbox +1	Porting, Co-Development, Programming +5
Kevuru Games	San Francisco	United States	201-500	2011	Unreal Engine, Unity	PC, iOS, Android +5	2D Art, 3D Art, Animation +6
ASSIST Software	Suceava	Romania	201-500	1992	Unity, Unreal Engine, Custom Engine	PC, iOS, Android +2	Full Production, Programming, Game Design +5
Devoted Studios	Austin	United States	51-200	2018	Unity, Unreal Engine, Custom Engine +1	PC, PlayStation, Xbox +4	Programming, QA Testing, Full Production +6
CGBOT	Monterrey	Mexico	201-500	2007	Unreal Engine, Unity, Custom Engine	PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch	2D Art, 3D Art, Animation +5
Blind Squirrel Games	San Mateo	United States	51-200	2010	Unreal Engine, Unity, Custom Engine	PC, PlayStation, Xbox +1	Programming, 3D Art, Game Design +1
Red Apple Technologies	New Delhi	India	201-500	2011	Unity, Unreal Engine, Cocos2D	iOS, Android, PC +5	Full Production, Co-Development, Programming +7
d3t	Runcorn	United Kingdom	51-200	2011	Unreal Engine, Unity, Custom Engine	PC, PlayStation, Xbox +1	Programming, Game Design, Full Production +2
Grip Studios	Prague	Czech Republic	201-500	2010	Unreal Engine	PC, PlayStation, Xbox	Co-Development, Porting, Programming +5

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