UPDATE - Nintendo Begins Distributing Software Kit for New NX Platform

[Bofferbrauer]

spemanig said:

Bofferbrauer said:

Yes, but these developers where already in the know what to expect far before that date, so they could already do most of the programming beforehand. This being Nintendo, I doubt really anyone outside of the company really knows what to come and thus earlier SDKs are a necessity, especially if some new peripherials are included.

I am 99% sure that's not even remotely how that works.

Programmed on PC and then ported to PS4/Xbox ONE since they are so similar in hardware was surely possible during that timeframe. Since both SONY and Microsoft asked the major publishers what they would like to have in their respective future consoles, it's very likely they knew what to come, just not exactly how powerful they would end up. Otherwise they would only have had a few months for all the programming, which is just not nearly enough for an entire game.