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irstupid on 12 January 2017
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kitler53 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Nintendo probably didn't send out enough dev kits due to the heavy level of secrecy surrounding Switch. Hopefully the percentage will be at least 8% in next year's poll or else Switch is screwed. 

the switch is launching in 2 months.  if a developer doesn't have a dev kit by now there is no way that are releasing a title in switches first year on the market.  not exactly a good strategy by nintendo.

Talking AAA games, no.

But you need to realize that most of those 4,500 developers are not big companies. They are indie developers. An Indie dev getting a kit on March 1st would have no problem releasing a game by the holidays. It's not like the dev kit will be some alien hardware that will be completely foreign to them. It will be generally the same to develop for as any other system these days.

edit: lke take the shovel knight devs. Pretty sure if they were part of this survey they woudl have been part of the 3%, cause the game is coming to switch. But lets say they didn't have dev kits yet. They would have no problems getting shovel knight and all it's expansinos and whatever else is part of their big Shovel Knight package that is coming out to be ready for the Switch in a reasonable time.