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What we know so far about the Nintendo NX with sources
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Graphics Horse
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It'll probably be late ports. After the Wii U, EA probably would want as low of an investment in the NX Platform as possible to test the waters.
If EA really had dev kits for a while, this means that what Arkham said a few months ago, which was probably referring to a team inside EA, was false, at least for EA as a whole. Or better, not false: just that the people he talked with were among those who didn't receive the dev kits at the time or they lied to him in order to respect the NDA.
LegendofLex
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Most realistic is Madden & Fifa
Touché.
That's the issue. x86 isn't exactly handheld-friendly, & Nintendo was aiming to make the console & handheld "like brothers".
*complains about poor sales and drops support.
Yeah, that makes sense. Meeting to make plans doesn't mean they need to wait until then to start working on ports. The plans probably are about advertisement considerations, console bundles, prominence on the e-shop, etc.
That plus good tools and ease of development would shorten the dev cycle as well(assuming there is any truth to this).
Architecture doesn't matter, stop this for the nth time.
EA threw away the SDKs for the WiiU/sent them back, that's how bad it was. The fact that they've had them and didn't toss them out means we may actually be looking at something half competent coming out from Nintendo. EA didn't do it out of spite, they did it because the original WiiU SDKs were absolute trash and undocumented nonsense with poor support.
*Claim they gave the platform a fair shot.
AuthenticM
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"Unprecedented partnership"
Herb Alpert
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Behold... Dante's inferno! Titanfall (while Titanfall II is released on PS4 and One)!!! Unravel NX edition (means no DLC)!! shovelwares!!!
Edit: beaten on Titanfall LOL
Mihael Mello Keehl
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How so? Its just a port
Think it's been corrected before in this thread, but the architecture of the processor does not need to be identical for the devices to share a development environment. Compilers exist for a reason.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I hope Kimishima isnt messing around and is making sure he get all the big boy publishers on board
My theory for a while has been that most of EA's NX dev kits are with programmers/engineers working on porting Frostbite & Ignite over to NX. Likely a select group of people at DICE and maybe one other studio. Your average dev isn't going to have access to a kit because it isn't needed.
I still remember when, back in 2009, I created a fake PR describing an on-rail Call of Duty game (it was the period when both Dead Space and Resident Evil games were announced on Wii as on-rail games). It was for laugh, a clear fake, so no harm provoked.
...I still can't believe that fake was still better (at least at first, when it got announced) than the real Call of Duty game Wii got in 2009, a 2-years-old port of Modern Warfare.
James Scott
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Mass Effect: Special edition 2
ErrorMacro
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Don't know if this has been asked already, but is there any leaky information about the first direct of the year?
wild wild rice
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*New Play Control* Madden 2008
That's only the case once verification checks out and if plans don't change and if the source themselves isn't pulling a fast one to begin with. I have every hope all of this is true, I just would feel much more comfortable saying thinking of it as certain if we had concrete knowledge of it and ... really I'm not sure I'll believe much of anything for 100% certainty till Nintendo reveal it. But even then if we get a source check confirmation on all the Trev rumors I'll feel more comfortable thinking of all this as reasonably likely at the least.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Now THAT'S worthy of "Fucking Donkey Kong".
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