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midrange on 16 October 2015
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Pavolink 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


Fusion is about combining handheld and console libraries to avoid a disaster like the Wii U. Third parties dev kits doesn't matter, Zelda team must have the dev kit before the delay and 3D Mario team already confirmed to be working on the next one. DQXI and FFXIV are already announced for NX. And we speculate Pikmin 4 and Retro title are for NX. The launch is already covered.

Oh, and if you read the article, they mention ME: Andromeda for launch.

Third party dev kits do matter. The last thing you want for a launch is for third party devs playing down your system in favor of the ps4/xbox one. The best way to do this is to not rush third party devs, and to give them as much support/funding needed to make solid games.

Even the wii had Just Dance, Skylanders, and Guitar Hero to massively propel sales. To dismiss third parties would be to replicate gamecube level performance (better than wii u given the fusion concept, although the fusion idea is also not set in stone)

Aside from the DQ game, there is no game that is sent in stone going to the NX, so there is no point in hoping that pikmin/zelda/retro/3d mario will be ready at launch. The article itself was using speculation as a basis for some of its info, so I wouldn't be sure about ME: andromeda.