curl-6 on 04 March 2015
| pokoko said: I'm very curious as to how this change in philosophy came about. Who got the ball rolling, who made the approvals, who had the authority to strip away the red tape? Is this a case where the old guard in Kyoto had an epiphany about the future or, and I think this is more likely, are smaller games like this simply not big enough for them to really get involved in the details with? Traditionally, Nintendo has been the hardest company in the industry to work with, so this is no small matter. Regardless, kudos to whomever made the effort to improve support for small studios. Now they just need to apply similar effort to larger studios. |
Losing the support of the big studios probably forced them to turn to indies for third party support, and do what was necessary to satisfy them.
This process hasn't been without its downsides though; some really poor games have made it onto the Wii U eshop over the last year. I guess it's a difficult balancing act, maintaining quality control while minimizing the barries to entry.
