Ping 1.5+ creator on recent Wii U developer piece, sticks up for dev kit
In light of Eurogamer’s anonymous Wii U developer piece that went up over the weekend, Ping 1.5+ creator Christopher Arnold has offered his own insight into the console’s dev kit.
Arnold believes that the anonymous remarks are “aimed at pre-retail release SDK problems.” The post-release SKD kit, on the other hand, “do not contain any of the listed problems”.
You’ll find Arnold’s full comments below.
I keep on getting pestered about this @eurogamer article about 'The Secret Developers: Wii U – the inside story'. It's a bit obnoxious now..
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
Most of the main complaints pointed at in the article from the dev is aimed at pre-retail release SDK problems. I can safely say that
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
the post release SDK kit given to developers now do not contain any of the listed problems and being an early on developer on any new
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
hardware will pose challenges to those unfamiliar. Programming and coding is most of the time trial-and-error.
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
Wii U game development takes the same amount of work and attention as a Xbox 360 or PS3 game development. They've done their process
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
of making their API understandable and useful to seasoned programmers. Wii U development = any other game console development time.
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
That's what it's been like for me developing, and I've been pushing my PC harder than my Wii U during development also.
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
That's all I have to say on the subject of Eurogamer's clickbait article. They titled it to stir up the Nintendooom wheel again.
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
Wii U is struggling because of lack of 3rd party, 3rd party needs to make the move first. Stop playing coy and hop into bed already. 😉
— Christopher F Arnold (@Kurisuellegarde) January 12, 2014
