Intrinsic said:
ICStats said:
Well put. However they have also given the impression of being behind the times. It's the only thing they do, and they still do it like it was ~10 years ago.
If you look at what western industry have been doing for the past decade, they have really worked to better their techniques, and participated in open forums for learning and teaching the latest methods at GDC and the like, and the most talented teams teach back. I remember checking sessions at GDC this year, you could find 10s of sessions presented by Sony, Microsoft, Google, and most major publishers and middleware companies. Yet from Nintendo basically nothing. It gives a picture that Nintendo is too siloed from the game industry.
Reports from developers about the Wii U poor tooling and devkits, and Nintendo not knowing how online worked on PS/Xbox lead to a similar conclusion of disconnect.
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I completely agree with you. Nintendo is definitely behind the times, I mean they only made a HD console 6yrs late right? But how stuck in their bubble nintendo is isn't what this thread is about. They are just having to deal with what sony and MS and every third party dev under the sun had to deal with last gen now. Look at the bolded part, doesn't that sound exactly like PS3 circa 2006/7?
That aside though, ppl need to understand that Hd game development is a lot of work. A LOOOOOOT of work. Especially at the start of the generation.
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About being in a bubble, I would add their hiring process in Japan. They dont take resume online, hand writing only, and there is a japanese test and a strong focus on language skill that I think would take out about any foreigner (and some talented japanese).
