Indie Developer Shares "Bad News" About Publishing On Switch, After Pitching His Game To Nintendo

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Indie Developer Shares "Bad News" About Publishing On Switch, After Pitching His Game To Nintendo

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"Very disappointing and frustrating".
Do you know an individual who happens to be working on a small-scale video game and aspires to one day publish it on the Nintendo Switch eShop? Well, you might want to show them this video first. It has been uploaded by an up-and-coming indie developer named Adam Ashbaker and talks about some "bad news" linked to Nintendo.
So, what's going on? Ashbaker explains how his plans to publish his game SpikeBlade went pearshaped when he encountered an issue with the iOS version of the game. He made the decision to scrap development for this platform and focus on the definitive Switch release. Unfortunately, the situation didn't get any better when he received an email from Nintendo at the start of June, after trying to pitch and submit his game for the hybrid platform to Kirk Scott (self-described as the Nindie guy), or more formally known as Nintendo's manager of publisher and developer relations. Here it is:
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