Wii U: Nintendo kept own devs in the dark

[HappySqurriel]

scottie said:

trestres said:
This is actually very bad news, I mean, these devs will only have 1 year to develop a game before Wii U launches. That will translate in tech demo-like games, very rushed and unpolished games or simply games not ready until 2014 or so. I doubt they can make large scale games in HD (which they never worked on before) in less than a year.

E3 was in June, Wii U will likely launch November, from the way that adds up, it's 17 months for those developers that were told nothing before E3 - hardly "less than a year".

 

Add to the fact that not all developers were told so late (at a guess, the ones that made NSMB:Mii and all the other tech demos had some idea of how to program for the console and what it was capable of). 

 

I'm surprised that you would instantly make up some negatives to think about something that Nintendo does. That doesn't sound like you at all Tres.

Yeah, it is likely that the details would have been released on an as-needed basis initially; and developers who were working on near launch project would have been given the most information at the earliest point, while developers who were going to work on projects that released 6 to 12 months (or more) after the Wii U launch were probably kept out of the loop.