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If Nintendo didn't disdain indie developers so much, this would be a much more exciting announcement. This kind of innovative thinking is wasted on the mega corporations who hardly take advantage of it.

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If Apple puts out an SDK for the Apple TV in September, things could get exciting pretty fast.

I'd be extremely surprised if that didn't happen.

Isn't WWDC where most SDKs get announced?

Usually. Apple hasn't talked about iOS 5's impact on the AppleTV, other than a mention that the iCloud photostream would be accessible from there as well.

The previous gen AppleTV is still running the equivalent of MacOS X 10.4, so hopefully the new one won't get the same neglect.

I'm thinking that at most they'd work with other large content providers (Hulu, etc. in addition to Netflix), or will push Airplay + other devices as solutions on the AppleTV.

Apple is on a 3 year product cycle, so I wouldn't count on it, but you never know:

1998- iMac; 2001- OSX/iPod; 2003/4- iTunes; 2007- iPhone; 2010- iPad; 2013 ?????

Probably because the iPad has an SDK and the comment didn't make sense as a result.

HN tends to be kinda rough on technical inaccuracy.

Perhaps I had the wrong impression, but I thought the correct response to a factually incorrect post was to point out the correct information in a reply, not to downmod the post. This is more inclusive (as everyone is misinformed at times) and is more useful to the community (because it provides them with the correct information).

Actually your comment is the one that is technically inaccurate, why would Apple wait a year and a half to launch an SDK. All I pointed out was that Apple's big launches come in 3 year cycles, it wouldn't fit for a TV SDK to launch now, or anytime soon.

From the guidelines: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

So far, the only device (that I'm aware of) from Apple that had a wait between the product launch and the sdk launch was the original iphone. Everything else, as far as I know, had an sdk launched way before the product was launched.

As for your downvotes: I'm sorry, but as has been stated previously, we value technical accuracy.

For me these colliding principles are heartbreaking. I've been playing Nintendo games since i was 3, and always wanted to work in the Videogame industry, but it seems to get your own games onto a Nintendo platform you need a lot of money or accept the fact that it will only run on jailbreaked consoles and people will live for free.

I was really hoping Nintendo would jump at the Android possibilities that were opening up, but it was Sony who went and did the right thing...

I basically gave up on Nintendo after the N64; all Nintendo is about nowadays is releasing Metroid 13, Mario 59, Zelda 32, in whichever conceivable permutations.

There's no wonder that they want to innovate the hardware, because the games remain the same. Zelda almost feels like the Lorem Ipsum and Hello World of Nintendo, when they want to demo their new platforms.

And I think they just announced an HD-cum-3D version of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. Jeez.

Keep in mind that last year was the 25th anniversary of the original Mario Bros. This year is the 25th for Legend of Zelda, and next year the 25th for Metroid.

While it does seem that they are rehashing old IP (and I agree that they are) they also have a slight incentive to push out permutations of their successful franchises here in the next few years.

Didn't Nintendo opened up to small devs with WiiWare ?

While the WiiWare SDK is a lot cheaper than previous kits, Ninntendo still has you jump through the hoop of being a registered and licensed developer with a business office and a secure facility to store the development kit/hardware. So while it may open the doors to some smaller studios, it's still generally outside of the reach of most "indie" devs compared to the iphone app store.

I was thinking of Fils-Amie saying the 3DS "isn't for unproven indies". I suppose it would make sense if the WiiWare model carried over to Wii U.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/37379/Nintendo-3DS-isnt-a...

Smaller companies, anyhow. It's not like the Android market where just about anyone can publish a game.

Who is to say indie's can't do this with the existing tablets that are out there today?

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/tablet-tv-games.h...

I agree. Watching this, I start thinking of all the exciting shit I could do with it. But I'm not a company with a contract with Ninty. So i won't. Hopefully the protocol is easy enough to decipher, and I can start using it as a remote control for the PC hooked up to my TV.

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