Super interesting read. Definitely opens up the eyes to how important B2B relationships are.
However, I had to read the more critical comments with a grain of salt. Of course Nintendo is going to be hush-hush about their brand new console and limit exposure! I think every company wants to control their marketing efforts and protect their products. In a perfect world, people would actually take the embargo or classified information seriously and not leak it, but this world is far from perfect and someone always burns that trust.
Give the Switch a few more months of continued success and solid releases and I imagine NOA will loosen up. Hell, half of these issues are potentially still present because they're waiting to figure out how the online infrastructure will work. Once that messaging is clear and they have a distinction between the eShop and Virtual Console, I think communication will be much improved between Nindies and NOA.
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Re: Feature: The Growing Pains of Curation on the Nintendo Switch eShop
Super interesting read. Definitely opens up the eyes to how important B2B relationships are.
However, I had to read the more critical comments with a grain of salt. Of course Nintendo is going to be hush-hush about their brand new console and limit exposure! I think every company wants to control their marketing efforts and protect their products. In a perfect world, people would actually take the embargo or classified information seriously and not leak it, but this world is far from perfect and someone always burns that trust.
Give the Switch a few more months of continued success and solid releases and I imagine NOA will loosen up. Hell, half of these issues are potentially still present because they're waiting to figure out how the online infrastructure will work. Once that messaging is clear and they have a distinction between the eShop and Virtual Console, I think communication will be much improved between Nindies and NOA.