Q & A from Nintendo's General Shareholder Meeting

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noname2200 said:

TomaTito said:

noname2200 said:

"The integration of development environments is quite technical, but in short, it is whether you use Nintendo’s original developing tool or a computer with readily available, standard developing tools when you develop video games for Nintendo platforms. Though we always try to create unique software content, we believe it would be efficient if we could integrate development tools. So, we are trying to gradually move toward the standard development tools from so-called “native” tools unique to Nintendo."

Q: Nintendo to stop developing their own game engines?

A: Yeah let's build everything with Unity.

It certainly caught my eye. Wonder what effect this will have going forward bad ones ?

Is the Nintendo Web Framework a native tool? If so, why the heck would they want to get rid of that? It's the easiest way to intergrate gamepad functionality and the easiest way to develop with software like Construct.