The Nintendo NX platform is predicted to launch this year but developers are still in the dark regarding exactly what the NX actually is. Development studio Rebellion who are behind such titles as Sniper Elite V2 on Wii U, Rogue Trooper on Wii, and Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death on GameCube says they have no clue what form or shape the Nintendo NX will take, which is surprising given the hardware is speculated to launch this year.
“Nintendo are brilliant. They’re a fabulous company and I love them. I always feel they’re quite eccentric. They come up with some incredible hardware. Even the Virtua Boy back in the day was really intriguing, and then the clamshell design of their handhelds. To be honest, I just don’t know [whether Rebellion will support NX]. The only way I can answer the question is, when we know what the machine is we’ll see and we’ll have a look. I’ve always loved Nintendo, I love their games and love their hardware.
“I know no more about [NX] than you do, so we’d be purely speculating. If it’s something that will run our games and if it isn’t some weird wobble balance board or something that’s totally irrelevant to what we’re doing then, if we can and if there’s a market there, if there’s a commercial opportunity, then we definitely want to capitalise on that.”
Whether or not Rebellion’s future games will come to NX, though, Kingsley can’t yet say. “I can’t say yes, I can’t say no at this stage,” he said, “because I don’t actually know what [NX] is.”
They’re not a big developer. Frankly, I am not surprised
Seems like an awful lot of small devs haven’t even heard a peep about the NX. Nintendo is shooting themselves in the foot if the NX (home console) is launching this Fall. All indicators point towards a portable this year and home console to follow.
Reggie has confirmed it’s a home console.
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he only confirmed it a dedicated gaming platform
You’re right, Shane. Evidently, it was the president of KOEI TECMO who says the Nintendo NX is a HOME platform.
You idiots are everywhere. He never stated anything.
Reggie DID confirm that it was a home console, you pieces of shit. He said
“In our handheld space, we’ve just launched the new Nintendo 3DS XL. So from that standpoint, there is no new hardware coming over the next six- to nine-month period. In the home console space, we’re focused on Wii U. NX is in the future.”
SOURCE: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/06/29/nintendo-reggie-fils-aime-e3/#15c71b8b72ad
The final statement in regards to NX is a separate sentence. So he could have said mobile, home, all new.
Won’t be too much longer before we all know(hopefully).
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I may just be unfamiliar with your shtick, good sir, but that’s not what’s happening here.
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That can come and bite you in the kester NC. If they don’t know, they won’t make, they won’t make, bye bye good sales and great word spreading on how great the “empire” really is.
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Some have and you know it.
-||Yes but this is about this Tribe and not all the other countless ones||-
They are irrelevant tribes. Nintendo doesn’t give a fucking about them.
Hahahha no wonder they’re in the dark. They did nothing but develop shit for Wii U. Of shit period.
Nintendo wouldn’t let them in the circle of trust.
inb4 brucelee saying that everything on the Wii U is shit.
http://www.funnyjunk.com/imgrd/rd/pictures/b3/be/b3be14_5462528.jpg/
Aww, you beat me to it.~
Media loves to try and force information out. Can anyone just wait until Nintendo announce it. They can asked all these questions then. No information is coming out until it is announce and if by chance some information do come out; no one will believe it.
You may not be Dr. TRE but you most def have the personality as the famous Dr. TRE with his lame intro.
I am not him and I agree the intro music is very lame. I only use youtube to view videos not upload them. I would definitely not be associated with that part of the youtube community.
Im just messing without sir. I kniw you not Tre. But your personality is simular.
I have a lot more personality than him.
Yeah for one thing im sure you have furniture in your house. Lol. And wouldnt say no dumb shit” The wii u will have all your defnitive of all your favorite games.”
Nintendo locking out 99% of indie devs? Doesn’t surprise me, especially since they fired top their indie guy over non-issue tweets.
Oh, Nintendo. When will you actually get the “Internet”?
Rebellion counts for 99%? Okay…
Honestly, this is just me thinking, but… Even if these devs know anything about the NX, wouldn’t there also be severe non-disclosure agreements making certain they /don’t/ talk about this stuff?
It just seems kinda silly that it feels like these smaller devs keep being asked to spill the beans. Even if they do know, do you think they’d really risk their position as a developer like that for something people can just wait three months for, now?
Good point
Actually your right about that…I know a dev myself but I can’t point out his name. Why? Because he got a dev kit and he told me the rules, so even if I truly wanted too, I can’t say it fully. So yeah, your actually right about that.
After that uninspired POS port of sniper V2 I can see exactly why they’re being left in the dark. That game was trash on the Wii U, how can you even justify it when a fucking practice mode is cut out.
Man I really miss Time Splitters chaotic action. That’s what Wii U needs.
Loved me some timesplitters!
So many glorious hours spent pwning friends and getting owned myself. I wonder what ever happened to Time Splitters 4.
Loser developer, you don’t need to know anything!
I’d be more upset/worried if Square Enix knew nothing!
“We love Nintendo… that’s why we made a crappy port of Sniper Elite 2 with no Multiplayer AND we’ve only released our other games on the other platforms.”
That’s what he’s actually saying.
…….Who?
Clarification for anyone who’s wondering: Any developer currently has access to an SDK, while the dev units themselves are in the possession of a handful of major devs (or devs who are part of a few major publishers). Game development is happening, but the lack of a dev kit means they don’t know what the controller or system interface will entail.
Extension to what I said: Dev kits will eventually be available for all developers, and in the meanwhile (as said above) those without them are working with an SDK approximation of the hardware.
If this was a big 3rd party, I’d be surprised (and a little worried) if they haven’t received any NX info at this point. Since its a small developer, this isn’t really big news… Honestly, I doubt we’ll see anything until E3… Though its hard for me to wait until then XD
Man, back in the days of the NES and SNES, I was familiar with SO many game developers. Capcom, Konami, Hudson Soft, Activision, Acclaim, THQ, Squaresoft, Tecmo, Natsume, Sony Imagesoft, LJN (the list goes on). But these days, there’s SO many more companies that I never even heard of (even popular ones like Bethesda) that I stopped paying attention or caring.