Some random indie develper didn't get a a NX devkit. What a disaster!

This is an indie dev. that never worked with Nintendo and doesn't have a dev kit and people are surprised, Nintendo is going to prioritize big 3rd parties,and companies that have games coming out near the NX launch if it launches this year the companies with games coming out between Oct'16-Mar'17 are getting the dev kits 1st.Also if Nintendo is going to give dev.kits to indies right now is going to be to the ones that they are close to like Wayforward and YachtClub,I also love the fact that some people didn't red the article were he says Sony and MS are also like this when they are about to release their console and it's not just a Nintendo thing.

Did you read the article or just the title? the guy says that MS and Sony do this too,so did they screw themselves too or just Nintendo?

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.

This is something I don't really understand, to be honest.

I mean, let's think about this.  You can keep the specs of your console hidden from the internet for a bit longer OR you can have more and better games on your system sooner.  Which is more important?  Hmm.  But!  But other console manufacturers might find out what kind of processor you're using (as if they don't know already from industry sources)!  Sony might scrap the PS4 and start over by copying Nintendo's new console!  It would ruin everything.

Seriously.

As for the logic that "indie" games don't matter, look at the year on the calendar.  They're the new middleware.  They mean your console has content beyond a the handful of AAA titles that release in a given year.  They matter to a lot of people.  Journey mattered.  The Ori and the Blind Forest mattered.  Even just the reveal of No Man's Sky mattered.  Cumulative speaking, they matter a lot.

The idea that the studio behind The Ori and the Blind Forest can't even get a reply is ridiculous.  No one should be defending that.  Someone should have been calling them up immediately, even if it's just to offer reassurances that they want to do business and to throw a provisional timetable at them.  You can't treat potentially valuable business partners that way and then be surprised when they stonewall you later.  It's just not very smart.

I think this is a microsoft move to find Whats the NX.... xp

While you have a point, to be fair Xbox and PS have a history of selling consoles, good 3rd party relationships, and know to have relatively the same specs for their devices. 3rd parties are automatically going to support these systems. Nintendo is the one who (especially if they are going to do their own thing like with the Wii U) really needs to accommodate 3rd party developers. That said, indie devs aren't really the bread and butter of the industry either. They have got dev kits out (at least you would THINK) to Platinum Games, Tecmo Koei, Square-Enix, EA, Activision, ect.

Now for all intents and purposes I think we can safely assume they do, but with word that EA is only going to be in talks about what they will be offering in March it looks kind of grim too.

If every hardware developer does this, it goes a long way to explain the often very empty launch windows and a short way of explaining Nintendos lack of third party support.

Although I'd be very open to this changing, you can be sure that major third parties receive the dev kits a long time before the indie devs get to see them. There are certainly enough rumours that major third parties such as Activision and EA already have dev kits for the NX

Yes, but how many are still in talks for what they are going to bring (just like EA), exclusive deals, ect. Is this going to be another Wii U release, where there is only time enough to bring out old ports no one is going to care about.