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potato_hamster on 29 January 2016
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spemanig said:
potato_hamster said:

It describes an added challenge, a difficult challenge that almost no developer, much less a third party is goinng to be willing to do for free. Also, he wasn't  necessarily referring to the NX when he said that. It was more of a "wouldn't it be nice if"...  and if fact right after that the interviewer gave an specific example of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Virtual Console which required seperate purchases to play it on both 3DS and Wii U, and Miyamoto kinda shurgged it off and said he'd think about doing it seperately next time.

So I mean, it's kinda disingenous to intentionally take the paragraph out of context, when you and I both know that he wasn't specifically referring to the NX when he said this, and this could quite easily have absolutely nothing to do with the NX.

For those who would like to read the interview themselves:

http://kotaku.com/miyamoto-can-imagine-nintendo-making-hybrid-console-han-1594989023

Except they already to it successfully and lucratively on mobile. They've overcome that challenge. That's why they unified developement studios. That's why the NX is being designed from its genesis to make it easy for developers to make one game on both.

He was very clearly referencing the NX. Let's not start that and pretend that a paragrah that directly references everything we've learned since about the NX plarform isn't actually about the NX platform. Yeah. He must be referencing some other unified platform. Combining development studios must have actually been for extending the 3DS's life another 3 years. "Both devices" must actually be a reference to the Wii U and 3DS. I must be crazy.

I think Miyamoto was speaking of the direction he wants to lead Nintento in. He wasn't referring to the Wii U and the 3DS, nor was he referring to the NX. He was referring to a hypothetical development platform that may or may not exist some day. Whether or not the NX is that hypothetical platform remains to be seen, but it's far more likely that the NX is a step in that direction, but not the end goal of that quote.

If they overcome that challenge, Nintendo went from years behind Sony and Microsoft in terms of operating systems, infrastructure, and development tools (both hardware and software tools), to years ahead from one console to the next. Based on my experience working directly with Nintendo I have absolutely zero confidence that they were able to create a development enviroment that allows developers to quite literally compile one game and it work on multiple hardware specifications. It doesn't seem remotely practical for anyone to pull off at this day and age, much less Nintendo.
I do not believe this is what they have done at all. I think they've made two seperate consoles, with similar specs, similar development tools, and similar OSs and are hoping that's enough to encourage third parties to develop on both system. It will not be easy to port between one platform and the next, but it will be easier. Those are two completely different things.