HundredEyes;9358800 said:
Broddie;9357265 said:
Lmao @ people thinking this will still come out in March. Obviously it will be delayed.
As for 3rd party support. I don't know where you guys have been the last year and a half but it's been iterated ad naseum that Nintendo went for an android based OS and development architecture in order to make developing for their platform more universal for everybody.
In other words no more developing games around 2 seperate architectures like in previous gens. Since everything is being made with one platform in mind it makes it easier to not just develop but increase software output frequency which is appealing to 3rd parties devs and publisher.
So far every major publisher has been in talks with Nintendo about NX. Not one has yet to back out of talks.
All the major publishers n devs were unboard when the wii U was announced aswell, we all know how that went....everybody and their momma is trying to get their shit on steam, indies galore on pc, consoles n mobile nowadays...there was this one console only @Karl. copped - forgot the name - that even amateurs like us could release games on lol...shit flopped.
You didn't get the point of my post. At all.
Yes they were onboard with the Wii U from jump and opted out in the end because of it's tricky architecture and just stuck with the 3DS. Which is why they are now going with a more universal architecture across one platform so that devs won't just quit on them early in the game and they have everything in place to let them work with just one budget at a time per release.
As opposed to 2 seperate ones as it was before (ie: Gamecube and Game Boy Advance and Wii and DS) saving them money and time (key elements in game developing industry) and refocusing their strongest teams across the board on one version of a game instead of having them have to delegate responsibility to a lesser team because there are more than one version.
I haven't bought a Nintendo home console since the 1990s. But with all the info out there on how the company has adapted and focused on changing 2 major factors that have recently held them back (confusing devs with 2 separate dev architectures at a time and region locking) I also feel it's beyond ridiculous to already count Nintendo out.
Muthafuckas been singing the Nintendo doom and gloom songs since the 5th generation of gaming. Yet here we are in the 9th and they're still here and more valuable than ever. Gamers never learn.