Hiku said:
bigtakilla said:
But this is exactly why it's strange no one else polled that they were making games for NX at this time. They would be allowed to do so, especially if their games were multiplat. It would only benifit Nintendo to let people know they are getting Dragon Quest XI, or Final Fantasy XV, or Kingdom Hearts III.
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Although there's usually no reason to deny that you're working on an unnamed project for a system. But in the case of upcoming new consoles, things tend to be more strict though. Letting people know you are developing games for an upcoming console, even if you don't reveal the name of the game, may inevitably give hints to the console's release date or other things, which the console developer would not want revealed until they feel the time is right. In such cases, it's just easier to tell them to not reveal any info about it at all, rather than accounting for each individual situation, and what they may or may not say in case someone decides to poll or interview them, etc. It's just simpler and safer to say "don't reveal anything until we say it's ok".
Developers revealing that they are working on an NX title in the poll is no different than Nintendo officially announcing that "There are "X" amount of games currently in development for the NX." But they have not made such an announcement yet, right?
I can imagine that the 1% who answered yes to working on an NX game may be ones who don't have a dev kit yet, and are not obliged to withold any information.
The recent rumor that appeared about Namco working on several NX titles, including launch titles, did not originate from Namco, but came from leaked sources. It sounds like it may be credible sources, so if it turns out to be true, it's worth noting that Nintendo and Namco have chosen to not speak of this as of yet. Becaure it's not always only beneficial to reveal these things as soon as possible for various reasons.
When Square announced they are considering the NX for their Q4 2016 title Dragon Quest XI, the fact that they said "consider" may be interprited in a few ways. Including the possibility of them not being sure of when the console will be released. If they had said that they are definitely going to release an NX port of the game, people would look at the Q4 2016 date, and draw the conclusion that NX will likely launch not too far from this date. Otherwise they would be more likely to port the next Dragon Quest game for it instead, etc.
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But multiplats of titles already announced wouldn't really fall under the "waiting for the right time to reveal" situation. Also, the companies were simply asked if they were working on any NX projects, no names or release dates. This would again most likely not be a problem under a NDA.
Bandai also polled yes which would again show Nintendo wouldn't have a problem.
