[bakugo]

Nintendo has no relationship with Valve or really PC gaming as a whole at all. They are pretty much as hostile as it gets towards any platform that isn't their own, to the point that a planned collaboration with Fortnite fell through because they were simply not willing to allow any of their characters to be visible on other platforms.

Valve isn't burning any bridges here because there were no bridges to begin with.

[ihuman]

> Nintendo has no relationship with Valve

Portal and Portal 2 recently released on the Switch

[debugnik]

Only because Lightspeed Studios ported them to their parent company's hardware (Nvidia Shield) and the Switch happens to use almost the same SoC. Valve's relationship with Nintendo here has been incidental.

[dewey]

3 seconds in a trailer for a niche feature are not worth offending your competitor over.

[bakugo]

Nintendo is not a direct competitor. And even if they were, what exactly does Valve have to lose here?

[yissp]

Portal was released on the Switch, so presumably they do have some sort of relationship.

[bakugo]

As someone else already pointed out, this was likely done through Nvidia, they had already done an ARM port of Portal for the Shield which is basically the same hardware as the Switch so they probably just asked Valve and they said "sure, why not"