UPDATE - Nintendo Begins Distributing Software Kit for New NX Platform

[midrange]

Darwinianevolution said:

midrange said:
Those dev kits are coming in too late for a 2016 release. Sure the ps4 ones came months before, but if people remember, the only third party the ps4 had on launch were ports. It's biggest releases (killzone, infamous) were all first party. The NX can't afford to have a delayed launch, otherwise it will fail to take momentum from the ps4 and will enter the same fate as the wii u

Well, the biggest hardware pushers are going to be first parties. Nintendo won't allow another WiiU-like launch: they caught off guard on the HD front and trusting only on 3rd parties to carry the console. Nintendo will have (they probably already have) all the games of the first year done or almost finished.

They'll probably do a better job than the wii u, but the ps4 and xbox one are already at full steam ahead. Having a complete launch is the minimum they need to compete. I'm not sure if that will happen from the 3rd party side if they are sending out dev kits this late