Q & A from Nintendo's General Shareholder Meeting

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TomaTito said:

JEMC 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.

Well... isn't Crytek in financial troubles? Maybe both Co could arrange something satisfactory for both of them.

Waste of money, because the engine would be in-house and they'd have to look for another.

Yes and no.

I haven't said Nintendo buys Crytek and uses the Cryengine. They could negotiate a deal to get Crytek develop a variant of its engine optimized for the WiiU hardware and offer it to both its internal studios but also third parties.

Nintendo would have a powerful engine tailored for its hardware for a lot less money than what would cost to make it on their own and at the same time it could incentivate more 3rd parties that are already using the Cryengine to port their games to the WiiU. And Crytek would get a much needed money injection as well as the chance of seeing more studios licensing their engine as a result of someone like Nintendo using it.

But as I said with that j/k, I don't think this will happen.