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pokoko said:
BraLoD said:

You know you are doing the exact same thing, right now, don't you?

Not to mention the fact that all I did was ask a question, I didn't tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do with regards to the rules or even quote anyone in particular.

next time you should do it, be direct.



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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.

That's actually a good point.  Nintendo does seem to try hard to keep anything from leaking, for all the good that did this time around.  Personally, I think they'd be better off lining up more games than keeping people from finding out stuff a few months early but that's their call.

As I said before, the Wii U was at 4.6% in 3013.  I find it really hard to imagine that it won't beat that number easily after a year on the market.



Hello first time posting here, but I saw this and just had a thought; wouldn't all Switch games be under some sort of NDA? So most devs wouldn't want to risk breaking that just for a survey.



How many developers are we talking about in this survey?



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Why do I have a deja-vu here?,

Anyway, and I'm not really a Switch believer, this poll means exactly nothing and probably skewed some way for some reason, like for example I don't who and what they included here, considering the other percentages.



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Well, if I would be an indie developer I would also not develop for Switch yet even if I wanted to simply because Nintendo wouldn't really let me develop for it yet.

If that is a good or bad strategy from Nintendo is another question but yeah, most simply can't really develop for it right now.

More interesting would be a poll about if these devs want to develop for it (but these polls are always pretty wrong, many devs just say "yes" then but never do it)



Ryan188 said:
Hello first time posting here, but I saw this and just had a thought; wouldn't all Switch games be under some sort of NDA? So most devs wouldn't want to risk breaking that just for a survey.

hi, welcome. that could be a reason, also, this survey is for individual developers and not companies.

btw do an introduction thread, those are fun.



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Things are getting nice here.

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Ryan188 said:
Hello first time posting here, but I saw this and just had a thought; wouldn't all Switch games be under some sort of NDA? So most devs wouldn't want to risk breaking that just for a survey.

If the survey is anonymous then I doubt that would be much of a factor.  Can't say for certain that it is, though. 

Platina said:
How many developers are we talking about in this survey?

4500+ is what I read.  Who knows how many are on the same team.



As long as Nintendo are making games for Switch im good.



pokoko said:
BraLoD said:
Things are getting nice here.

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