EGM has an article up where they asked Toys for Bob, Ready at Dawn, and GameTrust (Gamestop's new publishing arm), about the NX.
Keep in mind Skylanders Imaginators is coming to Wii U as a retail release this year, so one would think that series would continue on NX.
Most interesting to me was this, from GameTrust
I suspect we'll get some more interesting comments as we get closer to E3, and I'll try to keep my thread about Nintendo's third party support updated.
My general impression has been that higher-ups at game publishers know what's going on, but developers are still in the dark. This points to either the machine being able to get easy ports and/or Nintendo screwing up again with only 9 months to go before launch, so we'll see which is the case.
EGM said:According to Paul Yan, Toys for Bob’s associate creative director, Nintendo hasn’t informed the team behind the upcoming Skylanders Imaginators about the NX.
“We haven’t heard any news from Nintendo, so we don’t have any announcements,” Yan said when asked if the game will come to Nintendo’s next system.
Lou Studdert, associate producer at Toys for Bob, supported Yan’s claim, saying that Nintendo has a history of playing it safe when releasing information about consoles.
“I don’t know what [the NX] is,” Studdert joked, adding that Nintendo keeps a “very, very, very, very, very tight lid on everything.”
Keep in mind Skylanders Imaginators is coming to Wii U as a retail release this year, so one would think that series would continue on NX.
EGM said:Ready at Dawn, the studio behind The Order: 1886 and the upcoming multiplayer arena brawler Deformers, doesn’t know much about the NX, according to the studio’s cofounder and chief creative officer Ru Weerasuriya.
“The day one plan [for Deformers] is to launch on Xbox [One], PlayStation 4, and PC… What about NX? That’s the thing. Honestly, we are waiting.”
Weerasuriya also confirmed that Ready at Dawn does not have a developer’s kit for the NX.
Most interesting to me was this, from GameTrust
EGM said:Mark Stanley, vice president of internal development at GameTrust, the GameStop subsidiary publishing Deformers, admitted to being in talks with Nintendo about the system.
“On the GameTrust side, we’ve seen where [Nintendo is] at and that’s a conversation that keeps going… Since they announced the NX officially, they’ve been kind of wrangling a lot of the inquiries… and, from my perspective, it seems like they’re trying to get their hands around what type of they content they want to have for their launch window.”
I suspect we'll get some more interesting comments as we get closer to E3, and I'll try to keep my thread about Nintendo's third party support updated.
My general impression has been that higher-ups at game publishers know what's going on, but developers are still in the dark. This points to either the machine being able to get easy ports and/or Nintendo screwing up again with only 9 months to go before launch, so we'll see which is the case.