| Nem said:
This is exactly the problem i have with these theories. You think this is all easy and trivial to do. Games development takes a long time. Bringing out a system require alot of resources. This isnt done over night. Retro is the only studio i can see would have enough development time to come up with something. But if you think that NX development kits cant have been ready any earlier than in the last couple of months, you are sugesting again the development of a game in 1 year. |
Crossgen-development and multiplatform-development are no rocket science!
A game doesn't have to be completely finished before the additional work of a second supported system can start. Many assets can be used for both versions, many other tasks can run parallel.
Nintendo has begun distributing NX dev kits to third party developers last October, important third party publishers and selected partners will have got basic informations (specs, supported programming code,...) long before that devkit-distribution... so the preparations can be started earlier. And Nintendo's internal studios will have got both devkits and information earlier than the third parties. So even if "a port takes a year of development" (this is not set in stone): should the NX console launch this holiday season, they all have that year.
