| snowdog said: What's most important though is that the Wii U could be the go-to place for indie developers thanks to Nintendo giving tens of thousands of pounds worth of software and middleware free with each dev kit, including Greenhill's MULTI IDE, Autodesk middleware, Havok middleware and a licence for Unity 4. |
Nobody has ever done that before?, uh.. hate to break it to you but back when i first started working as a developer, the Katana devkit we had was given to use for free from Sega, Sony gave away Yaroze to hundreds of people who initially bought it by never actually cashing the cheques for the hardware, as well as giving hundreds of units to universities - Sony have repeated this with the Orbis development kits by basically providing the SDK and development hardware to smaller development teams and indie developers for free to create software on, with includes extensive software and development libraries, Microsoft also provides an extensive software library to development teams free of charge.
Also, Nintendo do provide these tools, but selective to the project, they don't just say "heres a bunch of software and licenses you might not even use".
Rose tinted glasses?, Yup.
