Man, people desperate for that NX news, ain't they?

Come with me, and let's all laugh at people jumping the gun, the starting line, and watch the mental gymnastics competition.

And now a logical reality check: The Witcher series has never been on a Nintendo platform (For obvious reasons in that the consoles would be reduced to a molten slurry.) CD Projekt Red has never had any dealings with Nintendo as far as I can tell. (With Nintendo's rather draconian policies, I don't blame them.)

Nobody knows what the NX even , outside from a key few in Japan, most likely. I wouldn't be surprised if there are internal people at Nintendo who don't know. It isn't even known if there are devkits in the wild. I don't think getting excited over a mystery device not likely to outpace the PS4 is how one would react.

But anyway, with that serious aside over, back to the laughter!

To be fair, trolling neogaf is like stealing candy from children.

Devkits are almost certainly in the wild if the console is releasing in March 2017 - devs and publishers are almost certainly bound by a strict NDA. Dragon Quest 11 and Just Dance are confirmed for NX, so Square Enix and Ubisoft definitely have them. Bear in mind that developers need time to learn the hardware and then actually develop the games.

A developer named VD-Dev also exhibited some very strange behaviour by removing an NX logo from their trailer, and then saying that they can't say anything about why until the console is launched. Suggests to me that they breached their NDA and got a slap on the wrist for it.

Actually leaks are least likely to come from the big publishers, as they have the strictest controls and impose the harshest penalties for in-house NDA violations. If there's a leak, it'll come from a poorly regulated mid-tier or indie developer, which I suspect don't have devkits at this time. Those will probably receive devkits upon announcement of the NX, whenever that is.

Nintendo however has a history of not giving out all the info on the console before they feel like it, only just enough allow people to make games. In his interview with Matt Barton, X-COM creator Julian Gollop said he worked on a Nintendo 3DS launch title for the most part without knowing the console would have stereoscopic 3D at all. I wouldn't be too confident that the NX dev kits "in the wild" fully represent the finished product.

Yes, it's certainly possible that the devkits are hobbled to limit the amount of information leaking out, but even so, even a limited devkit is of absolutely no use without information on at least the type of processor. They could probably keep the amount of memory and the final GPU a secret by ensuring that the API is fairly high level, and leave control schemes and optimisation to the final stretch of development, but it's possible to tell at least something from the devkit, unless the devkit is unable to run any compiled code at this time, in which case it really would be useless for developing anything.

FTFY.

You get beat up by somebody elses parents and arrested for assault? oO

WTF is "Nintendo thirst"?

I wsa about to ask that as well. I'm thinking it was meant to be 'first'. Nothing else makes sense to me.

"Nintendo fans' thirst for NX news".

Oh, it's simple. Nintendo fans are desperate for new information, seeing as they've had to deal with one portable that's really showing its age, and an abysmal failure of a console.

People need new information so they have some hope for the company that raised them to be gamers, when the sad reality is, Nintendo long ago abandoned people who grew up with them, or Pokemon would have something resembling a complex plot by now.

Not to change the topic, but wasn't EA, Ubisoft and Bethesda 'excited' to work and play with the Wii-U too?

nintendo games have a plot ?