Behind the Scenes of Wii U Software Development

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Digital Foundry has published an article from an anonymous but trusted developer outlining the challenges of developing for the Nintendo Wii U (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story). The piece confirms some common perceptions of Nintendo, such as their attitude to third party developers, and presents a few surprises, like networking code not being made available to outside developers until the console was almost on sale.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/01/14/0224201/behind-the-scenes-of-wii-u-software-development