Nintendo NX earns high praise before it’s even announced

By Lewis Leong

We still don’t know much about Nintendo’s mysterious NX console, but that’s not stopping Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot from praising Nintendo.

“I believe Nintendo will be back in the race with the NX,” said Guillemot during a meeting with Ubisoft investors, according to French journalist Chloé Woitier.

“The new Nintendo [console] is a fantastic machine,” said Guillemot during a separate Ubisoft presentation according to GameSpot. “It’s really a new approach, it’s really Nintendo, [which is] coming with something new again. We love it.”

This is a stark contrast to the strained relationship between Nintendo and Ubisoft during the days of the Wii U. Back in 2014, both Activision and Ubisoft backed away from Wii U development, instead concentrating on the Xbox One and PS4.

Of course, it’s in Ubisoft’s best interest to hype up the Nintendo NX. Ubisoft will likely release a ton of games for the new platform when it launches, giving the publisher another platform to sell its games. It was Nintendo that helped popularize Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise in the early years of the Wii. Just Dance …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming