Ori-udvikler er træt af hemmelighedskræmmeri omkring nye konsoller

Chefen for Moon Studios, Thomas Mahler, har udtalt sig på Neogaf, omkring hvordan Nintendo er meget hemmelighedsfulde omkring Nintendo NX, deres nye konsol. Mahler siger, at ved holde konsollens specifikationer hemmeligt, så kommer der ikke til at være nok understøttelse fra tredjepartsudviklere ved udgivelsen:

"This is actually THE singlest most annoying thing for every dev out there. We also talked to Nintendo and got absolutely nothing - I'll never understand that. And just to be clear, it's not just Nintendo, every hardware manufacturer is treating their devkits and their unreleased consoles like they're the second coming and are insanely secretive about it to a stupid degree in todays time. It's not even that the hardware isn't finished (duh), but you could at least give me the goddamn specs, so we'd know what to build shit for!"

Nintendo's næste konsol skulle eftersigende udkomme i slutningen af 2016, men der er stadig endnu ingen indikation om, hvad udviklerne skal sigte efter:

"What's needed to sell hardware is goddamn good software. With Nintendo not having any devkits out there at this point and probably even wanting to sell it in 2016, I can already guarantee that they'll just not have any software support, since nobody can just jumble games together in less than a year. I mean, you can, but it'll be garbage."

Mahler siger, at udviklerne skal bruge udviklingsudgaver af konsollerne to år i forvejen, men de skal også få både Unity og Epic til at understøtte systemet.

"The same is true for Engine Support - Get Unity and Epic to support these consoles WAAAAY ahead of release. By the time the console launches, it should be EASY for developers to develop games for these systems, things shouldn't just only start at this point. I want the goddamn devkits or at least proper hardware specs ideally 2 years before release - Keep all the developers updated, start a forum where devs can chat and figure out all the problems everyone's having, instead of everyone just having to deal with it. None of that's happening anywhere and it's just brain damaged."

Tak, Develop-Online.