Partners to be provided with MULTI integrated development environment
Nintendo has entered into a global licence agreement that will enable Wii U developers to use tech that is promised can produce high-performance, efficient code.
Developers making Wii U software can now employ Green Hills' MULTI integrated development environment middleware.
It was not stated whether Nintendo's development partners will have to pay for the licence.
"We selected the Green Hills Software solution because it generates highly optimised code, and Green Hills provides excellent global support," said Nintendo’s R&D managing director Genyo Takeda.
Green Hills said its middleware offers “maximum reliability, maximum performance, and minimum code size”.
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Oh wow, Nintendo are really going all out with the Wii-U tech. I've used similar technologies and not only are they really helpful for guiding you into making more robust code and developing better coding practices.
And their time machine debugging suite is so awesome.
What I wrote doesn't make sense. I was sort of writing one sentence, got distracted with the MULTI IDE browser tab, then continued with another sentence :(
But this is exciting. I've got some ideas about what else Nintendo might think of providing, so fingers crossed.
If it doesn't ship with a bucket of samples and demos that run with vs2010 out of the box - it will never get off the ground.
Green Hills? Really? Seriously Nintendo - what are you thinking? Make it effortless for 3rd parties to get their existing codebases up and running on your platform - be a facilitator - or forget about it.
Apple are walking away with the whole empire.
At least Nintendo don't have to worry about Sony's PS4 - AMD/ATI ? Seriously? That's a floundering, rusty bucket of bolts from the get-go. Intel / NVidia ftw on that front.
Can no one see the light?
Probably Microsoft - they need a PSP2 / iPad equivalent and fast to mooch in on Apple.
Who says they won't support VS at all for the Wii-U? But even if they don't, who says this isn't better ;)
We've all become accustomed to VS+VA, but using Eclipse/Java + Borland Together showed me how much room there is for improvement, and this IDE addresses some of those areas.
And maybe it will just be an optional tool so we get the best of both worlds :)
