Since its debut, the Nintendo Switch has attracted massive attention from gamers and developers alike. If you’re a gaming developer interested in building for the Switch, which steps do you need to take?
For years, Nintendo’s developer portal offered precious little clue about how to build games for the Switch. Despite massive developer interest, the company seemed dedicated to bottlenecking the number of indie developers actually creating Switch games. “Right now we are being very selective about who we’re letting into the development environment, and through our portal,” Damon Baker, Nintendo of America’s head of partner management, told Gamasutra a few years ago. “Whereas with the Wii U and 3DS, we opened that up to everybody. I think our mentality was to cast big net, [but] you’d never know when the next great piece of content was coming, or where it was gonna come…
