In an attempt to continue their efforts to push small (and big) developers to support their eShop's offer, Nintendo has merged all of its developer programs into a single worldwide portal.

Developers are now welcomed to register and create a Nintendo Developer Account to start developing their next title in collaboration with Nintendo. Nintendo also offers help to those who have little game development experience and encourage the creators to self-publish their game on the eShop, price and release date up to the developer.

Nintendo also provides access to development tools and documents (Unity and its integrated services, Nintendo web framework and Dev Interface) to make creators' ideas a reality.

See here: https://developer.nintendo.com/home

How are you people feeling about this initiative?

Pretty awesome move! The more devs the better

Does it take you to another dimension? :-o

A dimension where Nintendo does the right thing.

I like the sound of that.

Damn. Not sure if this is a dig or a compliment at Nintendo

Love it! Especially the stuff about helping the little guys :)

Cool. Nintendo needs all the developer support they can get, so this is a step in the right direction.

Nintendo is finally learning to be more open to developers. Hopefully this will help with the NX.

Great article though. Nice to read it. Having some optimism for the NX.

Great idea on their part. Nintendo's biggest fault was how closed their platform is. Some of the best games in recent years have been indies. And giving support is pretty awesome as well.