Developer “Guarantees” that “Nintendo NX Won’t Have Third-Party Support”

[JEMC]

Dev kits don't come from trees, and what a sensible company does it prioritize: first goes big third parties, then smaller studios with whom Nintendo has already worked in the past, and lastly the rest.

Sure, Thomas Mahler and Martin Sahlin may have made a couple of games worth being the "Game of the Year", but they are fairly new and we don't know if their future games will be of the same quality or not. And given that they haven't worked with Nintendo before, it's clear that they won't be on top of the priority list.

 

That said, given the troubled relationship between Nintendo and third parties, Nintendo would be smart to make NX a console (or ecosystem) that can be sustained exclusively through first and second party games, and if third parties decide to come on board... well, then even better.