Former Nintendo employee calls Nintendo "douches" over Axiom Verge situation (EDIT: he apologized)

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Captain_Yuri said:

Hiku said:

But this is a game that has been published already on not only WiiU, but also PS4, XBO, Vita, PC, Mac, etc.
And they've been asking Nintendo for a year. It's hard to imagine a game that already proved itself on those platforms to not be filtered out in the process over the course of a year.

The theory that Nintendo may be prioritizing new games, or older games with new system exclusive content, might be accurate.
But in the case of the latter, you'd imagine they would ask the indie developer to add some new Switch exclusive content to the game.

In that case it might also be a release schedule thing. They might be thinking "we got games for March, April and May but got fuck all for June and July so if we release Axiom Verge (and others) during this time instead of launch, it will help fill the gap."

I think this makes the most sense. I don't know why they wouldn't just tell the developer this, but it's probably just Nintendo being Nintendo. They still have a lot to learn in the business-to-business communication department.