UPDATE - Nintendo Begins Distributing Software Kit for New NX Platform

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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.

Well in a sense he's right. If you have a decent engine most of the programming in games is not platform specific. You don't need a dev kit to build a game, you just need it to port it to a platform. This is why is we had the whole downgrade gate earlier this gen with Watch Dogs and Witcher 3. The games were generically made for PC and assumptions were made regarding the eventual strength of the PS4 and X1. They don't wait til they get dev kits before they start developing.