The Nintendo NX is surrounded by a bevy of rumors but Nintendo has yet to make even the slightest confirmation of any news about the upcoming console. The secrecy surrounding the NX is not only bothersome to their fans eagerly waiting for any bit of news but, according to Gamespot, it is also causing issues with video game developers.
CEO Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios, the team behind the game "Ori and the Blind Forest," reportedly voiced out his complains on the NeoGAF forums, commenting on a thread started by "Unravel" developers, who said they were having difficulty simply securing a dev kit from Nintendo for the NX.
Mahler stated that Nintendo and all the hardware developers are "insanely secretive, to a stupid degree" and that this level of secrecy was the most annoying thing a developer has had to go through. Mahler confirmed they did contact Nintendo directly and got no response.
He continued to explain that Nintendo did not need to give them everything. If the company could not provide a proper dev kit then they could at least inform the developers the specs and capabilities of the NX so that the developers knew what kind of game they can build.
"With Nintendo not having any dev kits out there at this point and probably even wanting to sell it in 2016," Mahler expressed in frustration, "I can already guarantee that they'll just not have any software support, since nobody can just jumble games together in less than a year. I mean, you can, but it'll be garbage."
The report points out that Nintendo has been giving dev kits out but only to select third-party companies, limiting what other developers could bring to the table. Not only does this limit what kind of launch games are being designed for the NX but it also prevents other developers from making any valuable titles for the NX at the time being.
