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DélioPT on 20 September 2012
sethnintendo said:
DélioPT said:
I think this is a great move by Nintendo. Now, if you add to this that rumor of great incentives to develop for eshop and things beging to take shape.
Let`s hope that Nintendo is persuasive enough to show these developers that they can make money on eshop!

Well, they allowed for a decent increase in size of the Ware type games so that should quell some of the previous complaints by some developers.  Now, there isn't really too much else standing in the way for them to put their game on Nintendo's eshop. 


Had no idea they increased the size. That`s always good.
But in this case this, i believe, is really special because it goes for developers (mostly indies) who have never considered home console gaming as an option. And if Nintendo can tap that market of developers, maybe they can also tap on those kind of gamers.



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DélioPT on 20 September 2012
dahuman said:
DélioPT said:
^ What`s the difference there? Cuts down costs or something like that?


streamlined and easy to work with


Thanks for the answer! I was only thinking in terms of costs.



dahuman on 20 September 2012
DélioPT said:
dahuman said:
DélioPT said:
^ What`s the difference there? Cuts down costs or something like that?


streamlined and easy to work with


Thanks for the answer! I was only thinking in terms of costs.


well that too, but that's a given. Nintendo cares about costs a lot since they are primarily a gaming company and nothing else, unity 4 is the perfect engine for them since it's a very capable engine, with constant support from Nintendo, they can update it with all sorts of cool shit for it too.



Viper1 on 20 September 2012
sethnintendo said:
DélioPT said:
I think this is a great move by Nintendo. Now, if you add to this that rumor of great incentives to develop for eshop and things beging to take shape.
Let`s hope that Nintendo is persuasive enough to show these developers that they can make money on eshop!

Well, they allowed for a decent increase in size of the Ware type games so that should quell some of the previous complaints by some developers.  Now, there isn't really too much else standing in the way for them to put their game on Nintendo's eshop. 

I believe they also reduced the license fee so develoeprs keep more of their money over PSN and Xbox Live.   Not sure about other services.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 20 September 2012

Nice move from Nintendo.



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DélioPT on 20 September 2012
dahuman said:
DélioPT said:
dahuman said:
DélioPT said:
^ What`s the difference there? Cuts down costs or something like that?


streamlined and easy to work with


Thanks for the answer! I was only thinking in terms of costs.


well that too, but that's a given. Nintendo cares about costs a lot since they are primarily a gaming company and nothing else, unity 4 is the perfect engine for them since it's a very capable engine, with constant support from Nintendo, they can update it with all sorts of cool shit for it too.

Yeah.
This action actually is not a first for Nintendo. I remember some months ago that reported buying some middleware thingie (no techie here!) and giving it away for free i think.
Overall, one more action of support to developers from Nintendo!



Viper1 on 20 September 2012
DélioPT said:
dahuman said:


well that too, but that's a given. Nintendo cares about costs a lot since they are primarily a gaming company and nothing else, unity 4 is the perfect engine for them since it's a very capable engine, with constant support from Nintendo, they can update it with all sorts of cool shit for it too.

Yeah.
This action actually is not a first for Nintendo. I remember some months ago that reported buying some middleware thingie (no techie here!) and giving it away for free i think.
Overall, one more action of support to developers from Nintendo!

MobiClip is the one they purchased.

But they've also added Havok, Umbra and AutoDesk to their SDK.



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VicViper on 20 September 2012
Pavolink said:
Offf topic: Can anyone explain me all those VicViper - Viper users?!

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(No relation to Viper1, but  here's the origin of my nickname)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius

 



DélioPT on 20 September 2012
Viper1 said:
DélioPT said:
dahuman said:


well that too, but that's a given. Nintendo cares about costs a lot since they are primarily a gaming company and nothing else, unity 4 is the perfect engine for them since it's a very capable engine, with constant support from Nintendo, they can update it with all sorts of cool shit for it too.

Yeah.
This action actually is not a first for Nintendo. I remember some months ago that reported buying some middleware thingie (no techie here!) and giving it away for free i think.
Overall, one more action of support to developers from Nintendo!

MobiClip is the one they purchased.

But they've also added Havok, Umbra and AutoDesk to their SDK.

I remember MobiClip, but i thought it was something else. Can`t really recall what it was.
Maybe it was Umbra or Autodesk, i don`t know...