GoNintendo rumor on NX

[Aielyn]

spemanig said:

Aielyn said:
There's no chance that companies expecting to release large console games for NX in 2016 are just now getting, or are still waiting to get, dev kits. 9 months wouldn't be anywhere near enough time to get everything done for a big console title, including learning the basics of how to program for it.

The very fact that it's being described as "early Dev Kit access" for those who are waiting to order a dev kit pretty much guarantees that it's a 2017 release for the console.

No one said that the dev was part of a big AAA company. It could be a smaller independant studio, in which case it makes sense that they don't have the kit yet. 

I don't see how the kind of studio matters to the point I was making. This isn't about the studio, it's about Nintendo. Nintendo would be pushing to get dev kits (even if they were incomplete) into hands of developers more than a year before release. They wouldn't, nine months prior to launch, only have a "date" at which devs can start *ordering* dev kits. At least, not for a console. Maybe for a handheld.