The important part here, in my opinion, is that Nintendo was talking with people like Todd Howard almost a year before launch. It was Pete Hines, another executive at Bethesda, who went off on Ninteno for a lack of communication.
"The time for convincing publishers and developers to support Wii U has long passed," Hines said. "The box is out.
"You have to do what Sony and Microsoft has been doing with us for a long time," he added. "And it's not that every time we met with them we got all the answers we wanted, but they involved us very early on and talked to folks like Bethesda and Gearbox [sic] and saying, 'here's what we're doing, here's what we're planning, here's how we think it's going to work.' To hear what we thought, from our tech guys and from an experience standpoint, what we thought.
"You have to spend an unbelievable amount of time up front doing that. If you're going to just decide, 'we're going to make a box, and this is how it's going to work and you should make games for it,' well, no. No is my answer." Source
It was a surprisingly honest answer from someone in PR and you could tell he believed every word. It really does seem like Nintendo listened after the Wii U dish of humble pie. If that's the case, it should be great news for Nintendo fans.
| Jranation said: Wheres the " This is just some PR stuff" comments? I remember hearing that when Nvidia and Ubisoft praises the switch! |
There were pretty good reasons to be cautious about both of those, to be honest. Very different situations than with Bethesda.
